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CONTENTS. 



wren Fear of man in animals Stratagem of a wren Instinct 

 Early awakening of birds The early morning Morning in 

 autumn The goldfinch captured die in the winter soon 

 reconciled to captivity The tree creeper winters in England 

 not an increasing bird The yellow wagtail 



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Rapacious birds Passerine birds The common bunting un- 

 thatch corn-ricks Old tokens of wind and weather _ The 

 white lily The pimpernel The missel-thrush his note breeds 

 near the dwellings of man Change of character in birds Love 

 of offspring in birds Ordinations of Providence The jack snipe 

 its solitary habits The Christmas shooter Association of birds 

 The peewit its habits eggs Destruction among the rooks 

 Second establishment of birds Prognostications Hedge - 

 fruit Haws and heps The fieldfares Redwings feeding in 

 the lowlands uplands Egg of the fieldfareRural sounds 

 voices of birds Plumage of birds Song of birds The wood- 

 lark its habits voice capture Language of man of birds 

 Note significant of danger Singing a spontaneous effusion 

 Variety of note in some species ' Lady-bird' note of a song- 

 thrush Croaking of the nightingale Crowing of the cock 

 Admiration of birds The winter gnat Birds, cleanly and 

 innocent creatures . . . Page 243 273 



Knowledge slow of attainment Entomology a difficult study 



Wonders around us The objects of many insects unknown 



Chrysalis of a moth Four-spotted dragon fly The ghost moth 

 soon destroyed Specimens of plumage of butterflies Habits 

 of insects The blue argus butterfly a pugnacious insect 

 combats The azure butterfly seldom seen The humming 

 bird hawk-mothhabits wildness tamed by familiarity 

 feigns death The painted lady butterfly uncertain in appearing 

 The marble butterfly The common wasp The meadow brown 

 butterfly The yellow winged moth The admirable butterfly 

 The gamma moth The tiger moth Provisions of creatures for 

 their young The goat moth their numbers odour power of 

 destruction tenacious of life Larvae of phalaena cossus, where 

 plentifully found . . . Page 274298 



