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Distance, bird's sight at a, 145 n. , 176 «. 

 Divers, the northern, Yarrell on, &c., 108-110. 

 Dog and water-hen, instance of friendship, 120 (135). 

 Dogwood, in Forfar and Sweden, 22. 



,, the ' spindle-tree,' 22. 

 Dolphin, motion of the, 62. 

 Donatello, remark to UcceUi, 12, 13. 

 Doorhawk or night-jar, 147 (178). 



Dorcas Society, letter on birds from member of, 153 (190). 

 Dress, modern tight-fitting, 48 (182). 

 Dressier, Oscar, bird-lithographer, 87. 



,, ,, nomenclature, 140 seq., 170 seq. 



Drink as a source of e\-il, 134 (i5i). 

 Dryas(sa\v)dust, 128 (151). 

 Du Maurier. See s. Punch. 

 Ducks, nature of, 84, 88. 

 Dunlin, Gould on the bird, loi. 

 Dunn, Mr. Robert, on northern diver, no. 

 Diirer, birds by, 87. 

 Dutch, ' still hfe and dead game ' pictures, 14. 



E.\GLES, essential character of, 5. 

 flight of circling, 71. 

 ,, leap awkwardly, 26. 

 ,, names and kinds of, 5, 7. 

 Eartham river, ouzels on the, 92. 

 Eiderducks, coo, do not quack, 129 (153). 



,, down of, how taken, 126 (149), 128 (152). 



Hartwig on, 127 seq. (150 seq.). 

 England, in time of Chaucer and now, 39. 

 politics in, 133 (160). 

 ,, tourists of, abroad, 123 (142) ;/. 

 Ermine, judicial, 132 (159). 

 Evolution, acceptance of, by public, 58. 

 ,, author's rejection of, 58 seq. 

 ,, what things are, not were, important, 63. 



Falcon, claws of, 19. 



,, expression of brow and eyes, 86, 88. 

 ,, flight of, and the kite, 71, 145 (176). 

 ,, names of, 5, 7. 



