INDEX 



289 



ord'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, Eon. 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, 



LuO 



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 



Tri.ii of seven bishops, Sir 

 Thomas Powys's fairness in 

 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 



Upcher, 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 

 Walsingham, Lord, letters to, 



98, 119, 120, 121 

 Warner, Mr., letters to, 149 

 W T axwin»s, 110, 112, 190 

 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 Dill, 35 



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