2 2 8 INDEX. 



Cheadle, water-hen at, 119 (113). 

 Chemisette of birds, 90. 

 Chickens, rasores, 83. 

 Chivalry, modern English, 138 (165). 

 Chough, beak of, 19. 



,, last pair seen in Arran, 123 (143) n 

 Cincle, or ouzel, 148 (181). 

 Coniston weather 123 (143) n. 

 Coot, 114 (124-5). 



,, etymology of, 121 (137). 

 Cornhill Magazine, article on artizans and marriage in, 39. 

 Cotyle. See s. Cypselus. 



'Court of Love' or Robin Redebreast, 141 (171). 

 Courthope's Paradise of Birds referred to, 83 n. 



,, ,, ,, quoted, 122 seq. (138 seq.), 



124-S, (146-49). 

 Crakes, 93-99. 

 Creepers, birds called, 88. 

 Crimean War, 133 (161). 

 Cross-bills, 88. 

 Crowfoot, 96. 

 Crows, 88. 



Crystallization of metals, 60. 

 Cuvier on the piece order of birds, 55. 

 Cypselus on the swift, 145 (176). 



DabCHICK, 88 seq. 



,, meaning and nature of, 89. 



,, And see Lecture IIL and Appendix passim. 

 Dancing, its place among the arts, 24. 

 Dante, Bertrand de Born, on field sports, 24. 

 Darwinism ridiculed (flatness of feathers), 29. 

 58 seq. 

 ,, quoted on species of man, 61. 

 Death, inevitable for man and beast, 139 (167). 

 Demoiselle, oiseau, and connected, 38, 89. 

 Derby, Lord, crest of, and destruction of trees by, 39. 

 Devils, importance of claws to our idea of, 11. 

 Dickens, Charles, solitary night-walks of, 18. 

 Dippers, action of, in water, 154-55 (193-94). 



