INDEX 



Spain, Ford's Handbook to, 82, 



213 



letter to his brother on, 82 

 letters to ' Ibis ' on, 78 

 love for, 77, 78, 80, 84, 85 

 visits to, 76, 80 

 Spezia, 106 

 Spoonbill, 196 

 Spotted crakes at "Whittlesea, 



60 



Stark, Dr., 157, 158 

 Stockdove, 108 



Stopford, Rev. F. M., remini- 

 scences, 58 

 Swallows, 118, 180 ; nest of, on 



Eiffel Tower, 212 

 Swans, Bewick, on the Nene, 176 

 mute, 177 



whooper, 176, 193; large 

 flock of, near Lilford, 201 

 Swiss birds, 179 

 Sylvia melanocephala, 116 



TALLEYRAND, Hon. Mary Fox 



meets, 31 

 Tennyson, late Lord, a walk 



with, 87, 88 

 Tenrecs, 197, 222 

 Terns, black, 144 

 little, 118 

 sandwich, 118 



Theatricals at Lilford, 89, 90 

 Thick-knee, Australian, 271 

 Thomas, Oldfield, letter from, 



233 

 Thorburn, A., 139; letters to, 



154-178 

 Tits, blue, 212 



coal, 158, 207, 211 

 crested, 176, 180 

 from Canaries, 216 

 great, 212 



Tortoise, giant, from Aldabra, 

 195, 199 ; death of, 199 ; pre- 

 sented to Cambridge museum, 

 200 



Trial of seven bishops, Sir 

 Thomas Powys's fairness hi 

 conducting, 3 



Tristram, Rev. Canon, letters to, 

 93, 128, 167, 177, 184, 188, 

 264; 'Great Sahara,' 94 



Troupial, 135, 264 



Tuck, Rev. J., 192 



Tunis, 68, 201 



UPCHEE, H., 122 ; letters to, 127 



VERMIN, birds of prey not, 161 

 ' Virginia Gazette ' on England, 



1769, 16 

 Virginian quails, acclimatisation 



of, 98, 99, 103 

 Vole, bank, 307 

 Vultur cinereus, 70 



monachus in Palestine, 95 

 Vulture, black, 95, 211, 257 

 Egyptian, 66, 70, 244 

 Griffon, 65, 70, 95, 111, 194, 

 244, 257 



WADENHOE, 4, 147 

 Wagtail, grey, fishing, 202 

 i Walsinghain, Lord, letters to, 



98, 119, 120, 121 

 I "Warner, Mr., letters to, 149 

 I Waxwings, 110, 112, 190 

 1 Webb, Godfrey, reminiscences, 



48-53 



Wellington, Duke of, speech on 

 Catholic Emancipation, Hon. 

 Mary Fox's account of, 34 

 Wheatear, arrival of, 168 

 Wildfowl, 110-148 

 William the Fourth, Third Lord 

 Lilford appointed Lord-in- 

 Waiting to, 12 



Winchilsea, Lord, eloquence in 

 opposing Catholic Emancipa- 

 tion Bill, 35 



