INDEX. 



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A DAY with the rabbits in Downland, 



393 



A favoured spot, 169 

 A rara avis, 118 

 A shower of crystals, 116 

 A strange ' right and left,' 274 

 A year with the birds, 157 

 Aconite, The. 415 

 Agrimony, The, 420 

 Alcidae, The, 349 

 Allowance, 381 



Among the golden reed-beds, 171 

 Anatidoe, British, 318 

 An idle hour with the birds, 169 

 Animals, The love of, 2 



British wild, 3 

 An old-fashioned day, 388 

 Ashdown, Former days at, 21 

 Auk, great, The, 350 



little, The, 352 

 Avens, common, The, 421 



water, The, 422 

 Avocet, The, 289 



B 



Badger, The, 5, 395 

 Badgers and foxes, 7, 8 

 Bag, A mixed, 85 

 Bat, Barbastelle, The, 82 



Bechstein's, 84 



common, The. 80, 81 



Daubenton's, 83 



great, The, 80 



hairy-armed, The, 84 



greater horseshoe, The, 81 



smaller horseshoe, The, 81 



long-eared The, 81 



mouse-coloured, The, 84 



notch-eared, The, 83 



parti-coloured, The, 84 



reddish-gray, The, 83 



serotine, The, 84 



whiskered, The, 83 



I Bats, British, 79 



British, Common, 80 



Rare and common, 82 

 Rarest, probable importa- 

 tion, 85 



Table descriptive of, 87 

 Bedstraw, The yellow, 423 

 Betony, The, 427 

 Bettws-y-Coed, 4 

 Bindweed, The, 425 

 Bird collectors, 212 

 language, 113 



stuffers and taxidermists, 178 

 Birds affected by their surroundings, 



121 



Birds, Bracing of, 99 



British varieties, Reference to the, 



146 



Caged, 94 



Caterpillars and, 130 

 eggs, Act for protection of, 93 



Disproportionate size of, 



142 



Food-supply of, 121 

 Garden, 123 



Making observation on, 157 

 Migration of, 274 

 Nests and destruction of, 91 

 on passage, Mortality amongst, 



275 

 Protection of garden produce 



from, 112 

 songs of, Difficulty in detecting, 



136 



Training of, by brace-board, 100 

 useful, Destruction of, by keepers 



and gardeners, in 

 Bittern, The, 266 

 Blackbirds, Utility of, 112 

 Blackbirds, Warning notes of, 113 

 Blackcap, The, 162 

 Blackcock, The, 239 



Measurements of, 242 

 British warblers, 154 



