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INDEX. 



Snails and Thrushes, 30, 35. 



Snowberry liked by Tits, 1 04. 



Sparrow-hawk, 13. 



Sparrow, House, 165-172; follow- 

 ing cultivation, 165; foes of 

 the, 167; utility of, 167-168; 

 food of, 1 69 ; nesting in odd 

 places, 170; struck by lightning, 

 171 ; celebrated by poets, 172. 



Sparrow, Tree, 173-179; distri- 

 bution of, 174-175 ; nesting of, 

 177; food of, 178; distinguish- 

 ing characteristics, 179. 



Spenser's Epithalamium, 51. 



Spoonbill nesting in England, 242. 



Stanley, Familiar History of Birds, 

 170. 



Stevenson, on migration of Black- 

 bird, 34 ; on food of Marsh 

 Tit, 104. 



Sweet's British Warblers, 66. 



TEAL, 269-279; haunts, 269; 



actions of, 272 ; moulting, 274; 



nest described, 275; anecdote 



of, 276 ; habits, 279. 

 Thompson, Birds of Ireland, 24, 



69, 176. 



Thrush, 25-31 ; song of, 27 ; mi- 

 gration of, 28; food of, 31; 

 unknown in Shetland, 27. 



Titmouse, Great, 83"; cracking* 

 nuts, 88 ; Blue, 91 ; Marsh, 

 99; Coal, 1 06; Crested, 112; 

 Long-tailed, 1 1 9. 



WALNUTS and Tits, 88. 



Walton, Izaak, the honest Robin, 

 52. 



Warbler, Garden, absent from 

 Wales, 72 ; song of, 73 ; nest 

 of, 75. 



Webster's Lines on the Robin, 

 52. 



Whitethroat, 77-82 ; Greater and 

 Lesser, 78 ; haunts of, 79; nest 

 of, 80 ; unknown in Ireland, 81. 



White, Gilbert, 61, 71, 197. 



Woodbirds in November, 180-181. 



Woodcock, 19, 220-237; nesting 

 in England, 220; change of 

 habits, 221 ; plentiful in Sussex, 

 222 ; carrying its young, 223, 

 237 ; in Scotland, 226. 



Woodpecker, Green, 19. 



Wren, 52-53. 



THE END. 



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