INDEX 



Henley-in-Arden, 206 



Heron, 5 ; maintains its plenty, 47 ; 

 number of heronries, 47 ; appetite 

 of, 48-9 ; hawking, 49-50 ; danger 

 from bill of, 50 ; superstition con- 

 cerning, in Faroe Islands, 50-1 ; 

 nesting habits, 51-3 ; and rooks, 

 51 ; protection of, 52 ; rural names 

 of, 44, 52 ; on Pervensey Marshes, 

 53 ; tradition of Sussex peasants 

 concerning, 53-4 ; in captivity, 

 54; in South Africa, 160; purple, 

 160; squacco, 160; lesser egret, 

 160 ; night, 160 



Heronries, in England and Wales, 

 47-8 ; in South Africa, 160 



Herstmonceux, 2 ; castle of, 4, 223 



Hey wood, Lonsdale, Mr., and fox- 

 hunting, 135 



Hill, Mr. Geoffrey, 252 



Hilliard, Nicholas, portrait by, 206 



Hindustan, Somervile and, 214 



Hobby, the, 154 ; and white ants, 

 201 ; western red-footed, 201 ; 

 place of, in falconry, 202 ; on the 

 downs, 303 



Hoitt, John, huntsman to Somer- 

 vile, 208; memorial to, 218-19 



Holywell, 303 



Hoopoe, the, 157 



Horses, in co. Mayo, 188 



Hound : Somervile's description of 

 a, 211 ; breeding, 217; entering 

 to badger, 237 



Howitt, Samuel, 275 



Hungarian partridges, 280-1 



Huntsmen: qualities of, 121; cele- 

 brated amateurs as, 121; numbers 

 of amateur, 122; lady, 122; cele- 

 brated families of, 123; and 

 badgers, 235-6; a famous Sussex 

 huntsman, 305-6 



Hyde-Parker, Rev. Sir W., 122 



Ilsley, 197 

 Irby, Col., iii 



Jackdaws, 303 ; and choughs, 304 



Jacobites, the, and fox-hunting, 

 125-6 



Jessey, Master : his origin, 41 ; 

 habits and business, 42; costume 

 of, 43 ; his speech, 43 ; and bees, 

 44 ; and honey-wine, 44 ; his 

 love of fishing, 45 ; netting the 

 "Feeder," 45-6; a quaint sur- 

 vival, 46 



Kalahari Desert, sand-grouse in, 

 261-2 



Kenealy : Peter, 227, 230; Mrs., 

 230 



Kestrel, the: in Damaraland, 154; 

 massacre of, 197; food of, 197-8; 

 persecution of by keepers, 198 ; 

 rural names of, 198 ; description 

 of, 198-9; nesting-places of, 199; 

 at Eastbourne, 199 ; a summer 

 immigrant, 200 ; wide range of, 

 200 ; in South Africa, 200 ; South 

 African and white ants, 201 ; 

 various species of, 201-2 ; mis- 

 taken for cuckoo, 202 ; taming 

 of, 202 ; food of in captivity, 202 ; 

 and falconry, 202-3 ; patience of, 

 203 ; on the downs, 303 ; in 

 Pevensey Marshes, 303 



Killala Bay, 96, 191 



King's otter-hounds, 254 



Kite: black, 154; common, 154-S 



Knightley, Sir Charles, 36 



Knot, the 25 ; in South Africa, 

 161-2 ; migration of, 288 ; dis- 

 covery of nesting-place of, 289 



Ladies and fox-hunting, 139; and 

 partridge-shooting, 274 



Lake, a Mayo, 95-100 



Landrail, hard to retrieve, 62 ; flesh 

 and food of, 63 ; rural names of, 

 64 ; occurrence of, in winter, 64 ; 

 description of, 65 ; extraordinary 

 migration of, 65-6 ; in South 

 Africa, 163 ; on the downs, 300; 

 flight of, 300 ; numbers of, 301 



Landseer, and otter-hunting, 253 



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