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ousel Song of the Tree-pipit Pipits, Larks, Wagtails 

 Predatory birds of the woods Interview with a Grasshopper 

 Warbler ; its " reel " Beauty of the Nightingale ; its habits 

 and song Song-birds of the woods Woodpeckers Birds 

 of the hills Local migrations during the year 144 



CHAPTER VI. 

 THE ALPS IN SEPTEMBER. 



Geography of Switzerland Bird-catching on the passes 

 Birds on the Brtinig Pass The Hasli-Thal Crossbills The 

 Gadmen-Thal and Stein-alp Migration on the Susten-pass 

 Hospenthal Departure of Swallows Migration of insects 

 Return to Meiringen The Swiss peasant 177 



CHAPTER VII. 

 THE BIRDS OF VIRGIL. 



Virgil's haunts in Italy, in boyhood and manhood Virgil 

 true to nature Pigeons in his poems Crane and Stork ; 

 their migrations Corvus and comix Swans The ' alcyon,' 

 in Latin and Greek ornithology Voice of the Kingfisher 

 The ' acalanthis ' ; warblers in Italy and Greece Virgil's 

 sea-birds and swallows Nightingale in Homer and Virgil 

 Simile of ghosts and birds in Sixth Aeneid Autumn migra- 

 tions from the north 210 



NOTES 255 



INDEX 263 



