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Index 



May-fly, 450. 



Maypole, 148. 



Mazel, 8 1, and note. 



Merret quoted, 76. 



Merton College wall, 98, and note. 



Meteorological observations, 469. 



Metheglin, 274, and note. 



Mezereon, 320. 



Migration, 44, 56, and note, 90, 97, 

 104, 108, 117, 121, 125, 136, 

 137, 140, 149, 160, 186, 191, 

 194, 195. 197, 203, 231, 254, 

 255 note, 258, 298, and note, 

 353. 365. 415. 423, 430, 435, 

 436. 



Migration and food supply, 203, 

 and note. 



Miller's thumb, or bull's head, 50. 



Milton quoted, 199, 265, 341, 404. 



Missel-bird, missel-thrush, or storm- 

 cock, 55, 140, 173, 259, 324, 418. 



Mist, called London smoke, 470. 



Mole-cricket, 344. 



Monogamous birds, 117. 



Monograph on the house-martin, 



221. 



Monograph on the sand-martin, 



243- 



Monograph on the swallow, 234. 

 Monograph on the swift, 249. 

 Monographers, 122. 

 Monotropa, yellow, or birds' nest, 



3i9- 



Moor-hen, 324. 



Moose-deer, 114, 116 note, 119. 

 Mostyn's, Sir Roger, doves, 158. 

 Mount Carburn, 451. 

 Mouse, common, 146. 

 Mouse, field, 214, 369. 

 Mouse, harvest, 46 note, 53, and 



note, 61, 146. 

 Mouse, water, 109. 

 Museum, Leicester House, 12. 



Museum, Sir Ashton Lever's, 230 



note, 271 note. 



Museum, the countryman's, 48, 66. 

 Music, its effect on men, 369. 

 Mussulmen rub themselves with 



sand, 190. 



"NATURAL History of Gibraltar," 



by Rev. John White, 358. 

 "Naturalist's Summer Evening 



Walk," 102. 

 Naturalists who devote themselves 



to one district, 189. 

 Nautili, 14. 

 Nests, birds', 369. 

 Newhaven, swallows seen there in 



November, 208. 

 Newt, water, or eft, 76, 78 note, 82, 



and notes, 88 note. 

 Newton Lane, 279. 

 Newton Valence, 3, 382. 

 Nightingale, 72, 144, 166, 169, 173, 



231. 



Nightingales, where found, 200. 

 Night-hunters, 40. 

 Night-jar, goat-sucker, or fern owl, 



72, 93, and note, 97, and note, 



135, 146, 167, 184, 284, 324, 



431. 



Night-jar's note, 326, and note. 

 Nocturnal cry of birds, 327. 

 Nore Hill, 5, 334, 406. 

 Norton Farm-house, 7, 406. 

 Nose-fly, 452. 

 Notes of birds, 325. 

 Notes of domestic fowls, 327. 

 Nuthatch, or jarbird, 73, 369. 



OAK-TREE, 6, 8, 10, 42. 



Oak, the great, in the Holt, 462. 



Oak, the Plestor, 8. 



Oak, the raven's, 10. 



Oak timbers for the navy, 6. 



