446 



INDEX. 



Charadrius cantianus, 97 

 hiaticula, 84 

 intermedius, 95 

 minor, 96 

 morinellus, 76 

 pluvialis, 66 

 Ciconia alba, 177 



nigra, 182 

 Clinkers or Avocets, 240 

 Collared Pratincole, 64 

 Common Bittern, 159 

 Curlew, 194 

 Heron, 130 

 . Redshank, 207 

 Sandpiper, 230 

 Snipe, 305 

 Commons, inclosure of, 104 

 Coot,. 425 



battue shooting of, 431 

 * leeches in nests of, 427 

 custard fair, 429 

 Corn Crake, 387 

 Courser cream-coloured, 48 

 Crake Baillon's, 401 

 Carolina, 392 

 * corn, 387 

 little, 396 

 spotted, 393 

 Crane, 125 

 Crex bailloni, 401 

 porzana, 393 

 pratensis, 387 

 pusilla, 396 

 Cms cinerea, 125 

 Curlew black, 191 

 common, 194 

 great harvest, 198 

 pigmy, 350 

 stone, 51 

 Curlew Sandpiper, 350 

 Cursorius europceus, 48 



Dotterel, 76 



hawking of, at Thetford, by 



King James I., 82 

 origin of the word, 84 

 Double Snipe, 299 



Drainage, effects of on wild species, 306 

 " Drain " Dunlins, 382 

 Dunlin, 371 



enormous flocks of, 374 

 large and small races of, 380 

 migrating by night, 378 

 netting of, 376 



E 



Eggs, collection of Sir Thos. Browne, 



128 

 false statements of dealers in, 



154 



numbers of taken, and various 

 methods employed, 93, 105, 

 429 



Egret little, 150 

 Egrittes, Lapwings, 151 



Flood the great in the fens, 116, 207, 



250, 283 

 Fulica atra, 425 



Gallinula chloropus, 411 

 Glareola torquata, 64 

 Glossy Ibis, 191 . 

 Godwit bar-tailed, 253 

 black-tailed, 248 

 . Cambridge, 204 

 day on Breydon, 253 

 Golden Plover, 66 



whistling over the city 



by night, 70 

 Great Bustard, 1 

 Plover, 51 

 Snipe, 299 

 White Heron, 149 

 Green-legged Shank or Knot, 357 

 Green Plover or Lapwing, 103 



Sandpiper, 215 

 Greenshank, 234 

 Grey Phalarope, 436 

 Plover, 101 

 Snipe, 348 



H 



Hamatopus ostralegus, 122 

 Half Snipe, 334 

 Harnser or Heron, 130 

 Hawking bitterns, 173 

 curlew, 64 

 dotterel, 82 

 herons, 132, 136 

 stone curlew, 64 

 Heron common, 130 



hawking of, 132, 136 

 attacking water-hens, 418 

 great age of, 139 

 passage of, 138 



