INDEX. 



291 



Marsh Tit, distinguishing charac- 

 teristics, 100, 1 06. 



Merlin, 13. 



More, A. G., on distribution of 

 birds, 22, 71, 136. 



NESTS, odd places for, 97, 98, 

 104, in, 170. 



Nettle-creeper, 77. 



Newton, A., on migration of 

 Thrush, 28 ; on Parus britan- 

 nicus, 1 08 ; on food of Coal 

 Tit, no; on an ornithological 

 census, 166 ; on Cuckoo's eggs, 

 190, 192. 



Nightingale, 56-63 ; leaning "up- 

 till a thorn," 57 ; distribution in 

 England, 61 ; arrival and de- 

 parture, 62 ; winter quarters, 63. 



Nightjar, 14. 



OCCUPATION roads, 161. 

 Ornithological census, 166. 

 Ouzel, the French Oisel, 33. 

 Owls and game, 24. 

 Owl, Shorteared, 18-24; food of, 



21 ; nest of, 22 ; in a rabbit 



burrow, 23. 



PARTRIDGES, 15, 19, 76, 122, 167. 



Partridge and Sparrow, com- 

 parative abundance of, 166-167. 



Peewit, 213-219 ; eggs, 213, 214, 

 217; haunts of, 215; food of, 

 218; on the shore, 2 1 8. 



Pettychaps, 71. 



Pheasant, 122. 



Philip Sparrow, 171-172. 



Pigeon, 122. 



Plover, Golden, 203-212 ; haunts, 

 204-205 ; restless before rain, 

 205 ; shooting, 206-207 '> breed- 

 ing, 208; note of, 209-211; 

 food of, 2ii ; young, 222. 



Plover's eggs, 213, 214, 217. 



Pochard, nesting of the, 263. 



Pomfret's "Mourning Philomel," 

 58. 



Prevost,on the food of birds, 168-9. 



RAT and Heron, anecdote of, 268. 



Redbreast covering the dead with 

 leaves, 51-52. 



Ringed Plover, 217. 



Robin, 48-55; song of the, 49; 

 familiar name forj 5 1 : food of, 

 53 ; Robin and Wren, 52, 53. 



Rogers' Epitaph on a Redbreast, 



55- 

 Rowley, Dawson, on Cuckoo's 



eggs, 193- 



Ruddock, 51. 



Ruff and Reeve, 238-247 ; habits, 

 244 ; nidification, 244 ; curious 

 frill, 245 ; migration, 245-246. 



SELBY, on nest of Long-tailed Tit, 

 122. 



Shooting : Fieldfares, 40 ; Cur- 

 lew, 253; Plover, 206; Snipe, 

 215, 276; Teal, 277; Wood- 

 cock, 19, 224. 



Siskin, i33-!38; its breeding 

 haunts, 137; nesting near Lon- 

 don, 137. 



Skelton's Elegy on the Death of a 

 Pet Sparrow, 171. 



