INDEX 



Butt, Rev. J. M., private tutor of Mr. 



Morris, 15 

 Buzzard, its flight described, 76 



CARLYLE, THOMAS, cited, 237 

 Chaffinch, character of its song, 83 

 Cobbe, Frances Power, advocates the 

 preservation of bird-life, 137 ; her 

 efforts in the cause of humanity, 

 228 



Connell, Geoffrey (servant in the 

 Morris family), his untimely end, 

 263 



Cooper, Fenimore, cited, 4 

 Corn-Crake, its song described, 81 

 Cotton, Dr. R. L. , Provost of Wor- 

 cester College, Oxford, 15 

 1 ' County Seats of the Noblemen and 

 Gentlemen of Great Britain and 

 Ireland," character of the work, 

 164, 167 ; its production and cir- 

 culation, 165 



Cross, Right Hon. Richard Assheton 

 (afterwards Lord), Home Secretary, 

 285 



Crossbills, their tameness, 270 

 Curtis & Stephens, Messrs., their 



catalogue of British insects, 274 

 Curtis, J. , his " British Entomology" 

 cited, 24 



DALE, J. C., of Glanvillis Wootton, 

 entomologist, 16, 101, 114, 261 ; 

 his extensive collections of birds 

 and insects, 272 



Darwin, Charles, Mr. Morris's oppo- 

 sition to his theories, ix, 176, 213 

 etseg., 302 

 Denmark, character of the High 



School movement in, 36 

 Devonshire bird-life, 195 

 Dickens, Charles, cited, 125 

 Dillwyn, Mr., his Sea- Birds Act, 152 

 Drew, Mr., bird-stuffer, of Stone- 

 house, 268 



Duck, Wild, their flight described, 75 

 Duncan, J. L. , keeper of the Ash- 

 molean Museum, Oxford, 16 



Dunnock, its habits described, 77 

 Dyson, Charles, Rector of Nunburn- 

 holme, visited by John Keble, 47 



EDGEWORTH, MARIA, cited, 125 

 Education Act of 1870, the, 171, 241 

 Edward, Thomas, naturalist, of Banff, 

 his correspondence with Mr. Morris, 

 182 ; his imprisoned spider, 183 ; 

 story of his encounter with badgers, 

 186 ; contributes to the Naturalist, 

 263 

 Entomology, Mr. Morris's delight in, 94 



FAWCETT, BENJAMIN, of Driffield, 

 his business transactions with Mr. 

 Morris, 61, 65, 67 ; his share in 

 the production .of the " History of 

 British Birds," 68 ; his new process 

 for printing in colours, 69 ; his plan 

 for illustrating the ' ' Natural His- 

 tory of the Nests and Eggs of 

 British Birds," 88 ; and the " His- 

 tory of British Butterflies," 96 ; fears 

 to undertake the production of the 

 " History of British Moths," 103 ; 

 produces ' ' County Seats of the 

 Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great 

 Britain and Ireland," 163 ; his 

 death, 306 



Flamborough Head, destruction of 

 sea-birds in its neighbourhood, 143, 

 147 ; beneficent effect of the passing 

 of the Sea- Birds Act in the number 

 of birds there, 148, 151 



Flycatcher, its flight described, 76 



Fox-hunting, nature of Mr. Morris's 

 opposition to the sport, 255 



GARDNER, Admiral, 6 

 Gatcombe, John, a valued correspon- 

 dent of Mr. Morris, 87, 269 ; his 

 sketch of the Bustard, 268 

 "Gatekeeper" butterfly, 100 

 Goldsmith, Oliver, cited, 125, 131 

 Gowland, Messrs., engravers, x 

 Great -Tit, or Oxeye, its song de- 

 scribed, 78 



