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MY LIFE AS A NATURALIST 



Nature Christening, my, 6 



,, Inheritance, 1 



Poetry and Prose, 46 



Study, 18, 32-3 



Service of, 202-3 

 Nelson, Horatio, 170 

 Nequam, Alexander', 30 

 Nesting Boxes, 51, 210 

 Nettle, Stinging, 115, 127, 198 



White Dead, 45, 127 

 Nevis Burn, 162-3 

 Nightingale, 35, 50, 54, 74, 79, 80-1 



88, 122, 171, 194 

 Nightjar, 95-6, 147-8, 188 

 " Night Thoughts," 18 

 Norfolk Broads, 228 

 Norfolk Howards, 94 

 Northumberland, 172 

 Norton Common, 75, 80, 135, 217 

 Nuthatch, 48, 94 



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Oak, 120-1, 140, 144, 151, 188-9, 



192 



Oak Apple Gall, 151-2 

 Oban, 158 

 Odin, 121 



Offa, King of Mercia, 24, 26-7 

 Offley, 26 

 Old Hunston, 171 

 Old Man's Beard, 130 

 Optimist, an, 19 

 Orchid, Bee, 136 



Early Purple, 136 

 Fly, 136 

 Frog, 136 

 Pyramidal, -136 

 Spotted, 136 

 Orchids, 136 

 Osmund, Saint, 241 

 Otter, 68 



" Our Favourite Song Birds," 76 

 Outlook Tower, Edinburgh, 242 

 Overstrand, 170 

 Owl, Barn, 57, 96 



Little, 96 



Long -eared, 67, 96 



Short-eared, 96 



Tawny, 63, 96, 194 

 Oxford, author's association with, 



2 



Oyster, 169, 172 

 Oyster -catcher, 172, 179 



Paddock Stools, 181 

 PciKony, 188 

 Paisley, 183-6 

 Palmerston, Lord, 223 

 Paps of Jura, 186 

 Paridce, 89 

 Paris, Matthew, 30 

 Parsley, Hedge, 129, 146 

 Parsnip, Cow, 130, 151 



Yellow, 131 



Parson, the Walking, 172 

 Parthenogenesis, 1 52 

 Partridge, English, 95, 99, 104, 152, 



200 



Partridge, French, 99 

 Paterson, A., 169, 221 

 Peacham, Henry, 18 

 Pear, 143 



Pears in my Garden, 208 

 Peasants' Revolt, 24, 27 

 Pengelly, Wm.,168 

 Perch, 9, 226 

 Perth, 158 



Peter, my Dog, 231 -3 

 Petrel, Fulmar, 98-9 

 Pheasant, 72, 99, 104, 107, 215 

 Picea pectinata, 154 

 " Pictorial Museum of Animated 



Nature," 12 



Pictures by Richard Westnll, 3 

 Pictures by William Westnll, 5 

 Pike, 225-6 

 Pike, O. G., 98-9 

 Pilewort, 127 

 Pimpernel, Bog, 137 

 Pine, 122 

 Pipit, Meadow, 51, 89, 108, 169 



Rock, 169 



Tree, 73, 82, 122, 151,189 

 Pirton, a Survey of, 247-51 

 Plant growth, 151 

 Plant life near my Study, 216 

 Plants on Norton Common, 217 

 Plantain, Great Water, 137 

 Plover, Golden, 152 



Ringed, 95, 170 

 Plums in my Garden, 208 

 Pochard, 97 



Poem by Owen Meredith, 190-1 

 Poetry and Nature, 14 

 Poetry by the Author, 13, 15 

 Poetry by Richard Westall, 4 

 Poets and the Skylark, 78 

 Poets, Hertfordshire, 17 



