INDEX 



469 



Brooklime. The, 426. 466 

 Broom, butcher's, The, 427 



yellow, The, 422 

 Brute creation, The, 2 

 Bryony, red-berried, The, 422 

 Buckbean, The, 424 

 Bullfinch, The, 95 



British varieties of, 97 



Tamed, 96 

 Bullfinches, Caged, 97 



Preference of, for dry situations, 



96 



Bunting, cirl, The, and yellow-ham- 

 mer, 148 

 Bunting, common, The, 1^9 



snow, The, 152 



peculiarity in change of 



plumage, 152 

 Buntings, The, 147 



reed and black-headed, The, 151 



Songs of, 150 

 Burdock, The, 424 

 Bustard, The, 117 

 Bustards, Flight of, 119 



Size of, 120 



Butt and Ward, Messrs., 180 

 Buzzard, common, The, 210 



honey, The, 211 



rough-legged, The, 210 

 Buzzards, The, 210 



Protection needed for, 212 



Camomile, common, The, 428 

 Campion, The, 418 

 Capercailzie, The, 238 



measurement of, 242 

 Cat, diving, A, 109 



wild, The, 3 



True colour of the, 5 

 Cats, wild, 5 

 Cats, wild, Domestic, 5 

 Cheiroptera, The, 85 

 Chiffchaff, The, 163 

 Chough, The, 188 

 Cocktails, 20 

 Colt's-foot, The, 428 

 Comfrey, The, 417, 418 

 Coot, The, 256 



Cormorant, common, The 363 

 Cormorants, The, 363 

 Cow-parsley, The, 412 

 Cowslip, The, 429 

 Crake, corn, The, 248 



little, The, 249 



spotted, The. 249 

 Crippled game, 383 

 Crossbill, The, 98 

 Crow, The, 189 



family, The, 190 



Indian, An, 190 



Crow tribe. The, 188 



Crows, rooks, and jackdaws, 189 



Cruelty of bad shooting. The, 380 



of long shooting at hares, 380 



to wounded game, 383 

 Cuckoo, The, 138 



Egg, deposition of by, 139 



Mound bird and the, 142 



Nests utilized by the, 141 



Note of the, 140 



Peculiar formation of back of 

 young, 139 



pint, The, 429 



pipit's nest, Preference of for the, 



143 



rearing its young, 138 



Thrush feeding young, 141 

 Cuckoo's eggs, Varying colour of, 139 



mate, Name of, 137 

 Cuckoos, Birds feeding young, 142 



Migration of, 138 



young, Rearing of, 141 

 Curlew, The, 301 



sandpiper, The, 305 



stone, The, 116 



D. 



Dandelion, The, 431 



Diver, black-throated, The, 355 



great Northern, The, 353 



red-throated, The, 354 



white-billed Northern, The, 355 

 Divers, The, 353 

 Dixon on migration of birds, 274 

 Dock, broad-leaved, The, 432 

 Dodder, The, 432 

 Dotterel, The, 284 

 Dove, ring, The, 232 



rock, The, 236 



stock, The, 2^3-236 



turtle, The, 236 

 Doves, British, 232 

 Dropwort, The, 415 

 Ducks, List of British, 318 

 Duck, common wild, The, 321 



gadwall, The, 325 



garganey, The, 334 



golden-eye, The, 329 



goosander, The, 332 



long-tailed, The, 330 



pintail, The, 325 



pochard, The, 327 



red-breasted merganser, The, 323 



scaup, The, 328 



sheldrake, The, 320 



shoveller, The, 323 



scoter, The, 330 

 surf, The, 332 

 velvet, The, 331 



smew. The, 333 



teal, The, 323 



