INDEX. 



Vandyke, aristocracy in his day, i. 



I. ,, ot'his portraits, i. 



,, picture of sons of Dul<e of Lennox, il>. 



Vasari on Francia and Pollajuolo, 14. 

 * Velasquez, portraits of, i. 

 Virgil, qicoted : ' portici'ous vacuis stagna sonat, 44. 



Wager (Sir Charles) on flock of swallows, 50. 



Wagtail, motion of the, 25. 



Water-birds (dippers, divers, duckers), 93. 



100. 

 Water-hen, 119 (133), 160 (190). 



,, countries it inhabits, 119 (134). 



' ,, sagacity of, untamed, 120 (136-7). 



Water-ouzel, author has never seen one alive, 92. 



under-water actions, 108. See s. Oitsel. 

 Water-rail, 117 seq. (130 seq.). 

 ,, names of, 152 (188). 

 Weather, modern, 123 «. (143) m. 

 Web-footed birds, loi seq. 

 White's Letters from Selborne, 3. 



,, silent as to pace of swallow, 48. 

 ,, his brother, on the swallow, 49. 

 Wing, anatomy of the, 74 seq. 



,, claws and, devil and angel, 11. 

 ,, stroke of, in flight, 69-70. 

 Wooley, Mr., on the Arctic fairy, 112 (122). 

 Women, angelic expression of good, 11. 

 Woodpeckers, 88. 



World, the, under a curse, 132 (159). 

 Worms, death of human and earth, 22. 



,, eating of, by robins, 22. 

 Wrens, 88. 



XANTHUS, 138 (t66), 



Yarrell, nomenclature for birds, 140 seq. , 170 seq. 

 ,, on the grebe's nest, 104. 



,, ,, lily ouzel or water-crake, 96. 



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