440 



INDEX. 



Birds useful to farmers and gardeners, 

 22, 46, 52, 54, ^79, 143, 

 196, 200, 206, 211, 233, 

 270, 272, 352, 422 

 varieties of see VARIETIES 

 various notes of in each species, 



124, 126 

 various temperaments of, in 



confinement, 226 



wholesale destruction of, depre- 

 cated, 143, 152, 196, 200, 

 210, 233 

 Blackbird, 83 

 Blackbird hawking 14 

 Blackcap, 125 

 Black-headed Bunting, 185 

 Black Grouse, 374 

 Black Redstart, 99 

 Black Woodpecker, great, 291 

 Blood Olf, 234 

 Blue-throated Warbler, 96 

 Blue Titmouse, 142 

 Bohemian Pheasant, var., 367 



Wax wing, 154 

 Bomby cilia garrulus, 154 

 Brambling, 202 



nesting in confinement, 204 

 Broads the, a summer's night on, 1 20 



a summer's day on, 188 



Brown Linnet, 227 

 Bubo maximus, 47 

 Bullfinch, 233 



black variety of, in a wild 



state, 234 



pine or grosbeak, 234 

 Bunting black-headed, 185 

 cirl, 198 

 common, 184 

 lapland, 181 

 ortolan (not Norf.), 199 



snow, 182 

 yellow, 196 

 Butcherbird or Shrike, 62 

 Buteo vulgaris, 27 

 Buzzard common, 27 

 rough-legged, 29 

 honey, 32 



Californian Quail, 437 



Calamophilus biarmicus, 150 



Caper cally, re- introduction of into 



Scotland, 375 



Caprimulgus europceus, 348 

 Carduelis elegans, 222 



Carrion Crow, 258 

 Certhia familiaris, 295 

 Chaffinch, 199 

 Chiffchaff, 133 

 Cinclus aquaticus, 68 



melanog aster, 69 

 Circus ceruginosus, 35 

 cineraceus, 39 

 cyaneus, 37 

 Cirl Bunting, 198 

 CoalTitmouse*, 146 

 Coccothraustes chloris, 218 



vulgaris, 214 



Coffin bird, 300 

 Colin Virginian, 436 

 Columba cenas, 355 



palumbus, 351 

 risoria, 360 

 turtur, 359 

 Common Buzzard, 27 

 Redstart, 98 

 Whitethroat, 128 

 Bunting, 184 

 Linnet, 227 

 Crossbill, 235 

 Starling, 247 

 Creeper, 295 

 Wren, 296 

 Swift, 343 

 Pheasant, 361 

 Partridge, 420 

 Coracias garrula, 310 

 Corvus comix, 260 

 corax, 256 

 cor one, 258 

 ,. frugilegus, 264 

 monedula, 277 

 Coturnix vulgaris, 429 

 Coucou roux, 309 

 Creeper common or tree, 295 

 Crow carrion, 258 



method of breaking the shells of 



mussels, &c., 260 

 hooded, grey- backed, Danish, or 



Royston, 2*60 

 Crossbill common, 235 



European white-winged, 242 



parrot, 239 

 Cuckoo, 303 



laying in reed warbler's nests, 

 117 



singing by night, 121 

 titlarks and other small birds, 

 feeding young of, 167, 306 

 Ouculus canorus, 303 

 hepaticus, 309 



