476 



INDEX. 



Coots, nest of, 329 

 Cormorants, habits of, 417 

 trained as fishing-birds 



by the Chinese, 416 



weight of, 419 



where differing from the 



Frigate-Bird, 423 

 Corn-Crake, 335 



found dormant, 263 



Cotinga, 189 



Courage of Swallows, 270 



Cranes, 339 



anecdote of a lame, 357 



Crocodile, birds feed in mouth of, 362 

 Cross-Bill, beak described, 29 



peculiarities of the, 213 



Crows, 206 



harassing the Gulls at the 



South Stack, 433 



Cuckoos, 289 



Golden, 25 



fed by a Thrush, 187 



Cultrirostral, cutting-billed birds, 336 

 Cuneirostral, wedge-billed birds, 289 



Dangerous instinct of Herons and 



Bitterns in darting at the eye, 352 

 Dardanelles, incessant flight of a 



species of Petrel, on the, 85 

 Dates of the arrival and departure of 



certain birds, 96 

 Desertion of young, instances of, 197, 



455 



Desperate leap of a Bird-catcher, 473 

 Digestive organs, 44 

 Divers, 452 

 Dodo, 323 



Dormancy of birds considered, 261 

 Duck's bills described, 31 



occasional long flights of, 79 



Chinese management of, 395 



affection of, 400 



nest of Wild, 397 



Eider, how to obtain the 



down, 401 



Indian mode of catching, 402 



Shooters, adventures of, 403 



Mexican, 408 



decoy, 408 



cunning in eluding pursuers, 



410 

 Dunlin, nest and eggs, 360 



Eagles, various particulars respecting 

 them, 98 



carrying off children, 101 



Egg of the Cuckoo, why laid in small 



birds' nests, 292 



Eggs of Nightingales carried, 308 

 Emu, 322 



Eye, insects flying in the, 267 

 Herons and Bitterns dangerous 



to the, 352 



Falcon, Iceland, valuable, 135 

 Falconry, 136 



attempted revival in Eng- 



land, 139 



Familiarity of Crows, anecdote of, 207 



Fasting powers of birds, 54 



Fatal event to a family of Sea- 

 fowlers, 474 



Feathers of Eagles prized, 122 

 rapid growth of, 244 



Feats of Bird-catchers, 469 

 Feeding, Thrush's, mode of, 182 

 Feeding-box for Pheasants, 308 

 Fieldfare, 180 

 Finches, family of, 236 

 Flamingo, or Phcenicopterus, 355 



singularity of its bill, 355 



numerous on the coast of 



Africa, 357 

 Flight, difficulties connected with, 3 



of birds, 73, 79 



Fly-catchers, 187 



Food consumed by small birds, 250 

 Fowl, singular contents of the sto- 

 mach of a, 52 

 Frigate-Bird lives almost always on 



the wing, 82 



Frost favourable to insects, 218 

 Frozen, birds occasionally, 150 

 Fulmars, 446 



Gallinaceous, Poultry tribe, 296 

 Gallinula, Water Hen, 325 

 Gannet, 55 

 use of its horny mask, 56 



mode of catching, 56 



nests, 424 



Gastric juice, 48 

 Geese, rearing of, profitable, 377 

 management of them in Lin- 

 colnshire, 377 



