CONTENTS. XI 



Eggs their markings Foolish superstition Kite his habits 

 great capture of Black cap habits song nest food 

 shyness habits of our occasional visiting birds Petty chaps 

 White throats Willow wren Fear of man in animals 

 Stratagem of a wren Instinct Awakening of birds 

 Early morning Morning in autumn Goldfinch captured 

 die in the winter soon reconciled to captivity Tree creeper 

 winters in England not an increasing bird Yellow wag- 

 tail Rapacious birds Passerine birds Buntings unthatch- 

 ing corn ricks Old tokens and signs White lily Pimpernel 

 Mistle thrush his note breeds near the dwellings of man* 

 Change of character in birds Love of offspring Divine ap- 

 pointments Jack snipe solitary habits Christmas shooter 

 Association of birds Peewit habits eggs Prognostications 

 Hedge-fruit Fieldfares Redwings feeding in the low- 

 lands uplands Egg of the fieldfare Rural sounds notes of 

 birds Plumage of birds Song of birds Woodlark habits 

 voice capture Language of man of birds Note significant 

 of danger Singing a spontaneous effusion Variety of note 

 in same species ' Lady-bird' note of a song-thrush Croaking 

 of the nightingale Admiration of birds Cleanly and innocent 

 creatures , . . Page 217 277 



Knowledge slowly obtained Entomology a difficult study 

 Wonders around us The objects of many insects unknown 

 Chrysalis of a moth Four spotted dragon fly Ghost moth 

 soon destroyed Specimens of plumage of butterflies Argus 

 butterfly a pugnacious insect combats Azure butterfly 

 seldom seen Humming bird sphinx habits wildness tamed 

 by familiarity feigns death Painted lady butterfly uncer- 

 tain in appearing Marble butterfly Wasp Meadow-brown 

 butterfly Yellow winged moth Admirable butterfly Gamma 

 moth Goat moth their numbers odour power of destruc- 

 tion Larvae of phalaena cossus, where plentifully found De- 

 signs of nature Evening ramble Insects abounding igno - 



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