INDEX. 



477 



Geese sacred among the ancients, 378 



- sagacity and watchfulness of, 

 378 



- instances of attachment in, 379 

 various anecdotes of, 382 



Bernacle, or Tree, 390 



Gigantic Crane, or Hurgila, 347 

 Gizzard, functions of the, 50, 52 

 Goat-Sucker, bill of the, 32 



mouth of the, 260, 278 



South American, 281 



Goldfinches, anecdote of, 236 



sagacity of, 237 



sociability of, 238 



age attained by, 239 



Grackles, 191,217 



Grebe, 450 



crested, shot at Adlington, 



Cheshire, 453 



Guillemots, 454, 456 

 Gulls, 428 



feeding on herrings, 431 



anecdote of a pair, 432 



Laughing, their breeding-place 



in Norfolk, 436 



Gullet, 46 



Hare and Hawk, contest between, 



148 



Hawk tribe, 98, 133 

 Hawking, 137 

 Hawks rearing Chickens, 155 



why respected by Turks, 155 



Hen kills mice, 305 



swimming, 305 



Herons taken by Hawking, 140 



assemblage of, 211 



legs allure fish, 340 



feathers, 340 



voracity of, 341 



Honey-Buzzard feeds on wasps, 152 

 Hoopoe, 282, 284 

 Hornbills, bills of, 34 



general character, 190 



Horned Screamer, Palamadea cor- 



nuta, 335 



Hospital for Cranes and Storks, 343 

 Humming-Birds, 282, 286 

 Hurgila, or Gigantic Crane, 347 



Ibis, Sacred, 373 



Imitative power of birds, 59 | 



Injuries from Crows and Rooks. 214 



and benefits from small birds, 



249 



Insects, quantity devoured by Swal- 

 lows, 267 



Rooks and Crows destructive 



to, 215 



frost favourable to, 218 



Instinct nearly allied to reason, in- 

 stance in Ducks, 410 



Jabiru, 351 



Jacamars, 289 



Jacana walks on water-plants, 332 



Jackdaws, 222 



Jays, partial migration of, 87 



killed by Hawks, 149 



general character, 225 



Kingfisher, 285 



King Penguin, 463 



Kites once common in London, 139 



Land-birds found far at sea, 81 



Language of birds, 63 



Lapwing, food of the, 361 



Larks, 251 



Latirostres, flat-beaked, 354 



Laughing Gull, account of, 436 



Leg-bones, 40 



Legs of Herons allure fish, 340 



Levirostral, light-billed, 295 



Light on American Bittern's breast, 



340 

 Light-houses a decoy for birds, 95, 



371 



Linnets' affection for their young, 248 

 Longipennes, 426 



Magpies, 226, 847 



sagacity of, 227 



nurse young Ravens, 228 



Manakins, 251 



Mate, birds choose new ones when 



the old ones die, 196, 271 

 Meetings of Crows and other birds, 



208, 345 



Mice killed by a Hen, 305 

 Migration of Cuckoos, 289 



Nightingales, 257 



Swallows, 266 



Storks and Cranes, 341 



