INDEX 



287 



233 ; his courtesy and gentle- 

 ness, vi, 237 ; secret of success 

 as a field naturalist, 238 ; new 

 Spanish hare to be named 

 Lepus Lilfordi, 206, 280 ; birth 

 of a grandson, and his death in 

 1896, 230 



Lilford, John, Fifth Lord, 74, 128 

 Lilford Hall, description of, 132 

 Lisbon, museum at, 117 ; wild- 

 fowl at, 192 

 Locusts, dried, food for birds, 



219, 220 



Lodge, G. E., Letters to, 153, 161 

 London, Bishop of, Introduction 



to memoir, v-xiv 

 London, dislike of, 63, 72 

 Lowell, J. R., 89 

 Lynx, Spanish, 67, 71 ; haunts 

 of, 97-107 



MAGPIE, Spanish azure-winged, 

 94 ; nesting in aviaries, 217 



Mann, Sir Horace, 6 



Marsh Harrier, 59 



Martins, crag, 193 



Meade- Waldo, E. G. B., 209, 215, 

 216 



Mendizabel, M., 38 



Merlin, 108, 109, 161 



Mover's ' British Birds,' 150 



Mice, Barbary, 218, 254 



Militia, with, in Ireland, 62 



Montagu's harrier, 143, 212 



Moore. Mrs., letter from New 

 York in 1831, 18 



Moose, 195 



Moreau, 29 



Moufflon, 68 



Munich Hospital in 1827, 11 



Musicarnpa albicollis, 109 



NAPLES, 105 



Natural History Museum, 

 South Kensington, annual con- 

 tribution to, 233 



Newton, Professor Alfred, his 

 Introduction to Lord Lilford's 

 book on 'British Birds,' 54. 

 232, 248 ; letters to, 56-72 ; at 

 Cambridge, 145 



Night heron, 194 ; in Northamp- 

 tonshire, 146, 147 



' Northamptonshire, Birds of,' 

 202, 222 



Northamptonshire Natural His- 

 tory Society, 119, 212, 250 



Nutcrackers, "l53, 157, 268 



ORTYX Virginianus (Virginian 



quail), 98, 103 

 Osprey, on the Nene, 125; in 



Switzerland, 179-180 

 Otters at Lilford, 179, 219, 221 

 Owl, barn, 261 



brown, 61, 109 



burrowing, nesting in 



aviaries, 221 

 eagle, vermin shooting with 



the aid of, 127-259 

 little, acclimatised and nest- 

 ing in Northampton- 

 shire, 218, 260 

 Nepaul, 259 

 scops, 59, 114, 124 

 snowy, 172, 217 

 trap, dislike of, 147 

 Ural, 259 



Owls, their usefulness, 147, 251 ; 

 women decorated with skins 

 of, 181-251 

 Oxford, strange pets in rooms at. 



49 

 Oyster-catchers, 248, 265 



PARROQUET, orange -flanked, 135 

 Partridges, Barbary, 66 



black-headed, 185, 219 . 



Greek, 220 



Hungarian, 223 



red-legged, 61 



