INDEX. 



Dardanelles, incessant flight of a species of 

 Petrel on the, 79 



Dates of the arrival and departure of certain 

 birds, 89 



Desertion of young, instance of, 402 



Desperate leap of a Bird-catcher, 415 



Digestive organs, 42 



Divers, 399 



Dodo, 295 



Dormancy of birds considered, 237 



Ducks' bills described, 29 ; occasional long 

 flights of, 74; Chinese management of, 

 352 ; affection of, 355 ; nest of Wild, 354 ; 

 Eider, how to obtain the down, 357; 

 Indian mode of catching, 358 



Duck shooters, adventures of, 339 ; Mexican, 

 363 ; decoy, 364 ; cunning in eluding pur- 

 suers, 364, 365 



Dunlin, nest and eggs, 321 



Eagles, various particulars respecting 

 them, 92 ; carrying off children, 95 



Egg of the Cuckoo, why laid in small birds' 

 nests, 265, 266 



Eggs of Nightingales carried, 326 



Emu, 294 



Eye, insects flying in the, 243, 244 ; Herons 

 and Bitterns dangerous to the, 314 



Falcon, Iceland, valuable, 121 



Falconry, 122; attempted revival in Eng- 

 land, 125 



Familiarity of Crows, anecdote of, 189 



Fasting powers of birds, 51 



Fatal event to a family of Sea-fowlers, 416 



Feathers of Eagles prized, 109 ; rapid growth 

 of, 221 



Feats of Bird-catchers, 412 



Feeding-box for Pheasants, 281 



Fieldfare, 166 



Finches, family of, 213 



Flamingo, or Phcenicopterus, 317 ; singular- 

 ity of its bill, 317 ; numerous on the coast 

 of Africa, 319 



Flight, difficulties connected with, 3; of 

 birds, 68, 73 



Fly-catchers, 170 



Food consumed by small birds, 225, 226 



Fowl, singular contents of the stomach of a, 

 50 



Frigate-bird lives almost always on the 

 wing, 77 



Frost favourable to insects, 197 



Frozen, birds occasionally, 137 



Fulmars, 394 



Gallinaceous, Poultry tribe, 271 



Gallinula, Water-hen, 297 



Gannet, 53 ; use of its horny mask, 53 ; mode 



of catching, 53 ; nests, 375 

 Gastric mice, 46 



Geese, rearing of, profitable, 335 ; manage- 

 ment of them in Lincolnshire, 335 ; sacred 

 among the ancients, 337; sagacity and 

 watchfulness of, 337 ; instances of attach- 

 ment in, 337 ; various anecdotes of, 337 ; 

 Bernacle, or Tree, 347 



Gigantic Crane, or Hurgila, 312 



Gizzard, functions of the, 48, 49 



Goat-sucker, bill of the, 31 ; mouth of the, 

 236 ; South American, 254 



Goldfinches, anecdote of, 213; sagacity of, 

 214; sociability of, 214, 215; age attained 

 by, 218 



Grakles, 197 



Grebe, 398; crested, shot at Adlington, 

 Cheshire, 400 



Guillemots, 401, 402 



Gulls, 379; feeding on herrings, 381, 382; 

 anecdote of a pair, 382, 383 ; Black-headed, 

 their breeding-place in Norfolk, 386 



Gullet, 45 



Hare and Hawk, contest between, 134 



Hawk tribe, 92, 118 



Hawking, 122 



Hawks rearing Chickens, 141 ; why respected 



by Turks, 142 

 Herons taken by hawking, 126; assemblage 



of, 192 ; legs allure fish, 308 ; voracity of, 308 

 Honey-Buzzard feeds on wasps, 139 

 Hoopoe, 255, ?57, 260 



Hornbills, bills of, 33 ; general character, 173 

 Horned Screamer, 304 

 Hospital for Cranes and Storks, 3" 

 Humming-Birds, 255 

 Hurgila, or Gigantic Crane, 312 



Ibis, Sacred, 331 



Imitative power of birds, 56 



Injuries from Crows and Rooks, 194 ; and 



benefits from small birds, 225 

 Insects, quantity devoured by Swallows, 



243 ; Rooks and Crows destructive to, 188; 



frost favourable to, 199 

 Instinct nearly allied to reason, instance in 



Ducks, 365 



Jabiru, 314 

 Jacamars, 263 



Jacana walks on water-plants, 305 

 Jackdaws, 201 



Jays, partial migration of, 82; killed by 

 Hawks, 135 ; general character. 203 



Kingfisher, 258 

 King Penguin, 408 

 Kites once common in London, 124 



Land-birds found far at sea, 75 

 Language of birds, 60 

 Lapwing, food of the, 322 



