INDEX 



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Lincolnshire, Drayton's account 



of fens of, 197 

 Lydekker, Mr. Richard, 34 



Martin, house, late breeding of 

 a pair, 288-92 ; ousted by spar- 

 rows, 293 



— sand, singular action of a, 49- 



5i 



Maxwell, Sir Herbert, bird pro- 

 tection Act of, 246 



Melendez, goldfinch poem by, 224 



Meredith, George, on the lark's 

 song, 175 ; nightingale's song 

 described by, 235 



Merula (blackbird), wide dis- 

 tribution of genus, 139 



Meyer, Prof. Kuno, translations of 

 ancient Irish poetry, 192 



Migration of Birds, Dixon's, 292 



Military starling, helping in- 

 stinct in, 77 ; chirping note, 98 



Mirage in England, 263 



Mocking bird, Southey's lines on, 

 207 ; singing of the Patagonian 

 white- winged, 207 



Montacute house, 180-1 



Montagu on the furze-wren, 174 



Montagu's harrier, 90 



Moor hen, 162 



Naturalist in La Plata, 34, 36, 

 40 



Newton, Sir Isaac, belief con- 

 cerning migration, 234 



Nightingale, a Yeovil, 182-4; 

 migration and distribution, 232- 

 8, 243 ; myths and poetry 234- 

 5 ; song, 235 ; anecdote, 240-2 ; 

 extermination in Germany, 245 



Oldys, Henry, Mr., studies of 



bird music by, 187 

 Owl, long-eared, in hill-top grove, 



271-2 ; habit of the, 272 



Paget, Miss Rosalind, 8 



Parish clerk, 25 



Partridge, friendship with horse 



of, 80 

 Passenger pigeon, extirpation of 



the, 39 

 Patagonian mocking-bird, song of, 

 % 188 



Peak of Derbyshire, 1 19 

 Peewit. See Lapwing 



Peregrine falcon, 268 



Pheasant, and blackbird, 62 ; 

 a tame, 64-5 ; a sacred bird, 

 89-94 



Phyllis and her goldfinch, prose 

 translation of Spanish poem 

 of, 227-30 



Pipit, meadow, and cuckoo, 126 



Pleydell-Bouverie, Mansel, 217 



Plover, golden, 130 



Poetic feeling in north and south 

 Britain, 183 



Poetry, Spanish, freedom of, 224 



Pollock, W. H., sensations in a bel- 

 fry described by, 201 



Polyolbion, Drayton's, 198 



Poole, recreations of the people 

 at, 157-9 



Proctor, A. A., "Child and the 

 Bird," 225-6 



Protection of birds, Royal Society 

 for the, 249 



Psophia leucoptera. See Trum- 

 peter. 



Querquedula flavirostra, 74 



Rail, water, 196 



Ravens, last of the Hampshire, 



255 



Redbreast injured, fed by mag- 

 pie, 79 ,' wailing note of, 1 39 ; 

 favoured by sentiment, 245 ; 

 young persecuted by, 259 



Redshanks, and wounded goose, 

 306 



Redstart, a black, 285 



Redwing, 96 ; song of the, 97 ; 

 not a cage bird, 97 ; beauty of, 

 102 



Ring-ouzel, 131, 133-9 



Robin. See Redbreast 



Roman pavement at Itchen 

 Abbas, 254 



Rural Rides, 218 



Rusby, Dr., on the trumpeter, 47 



Ruskin on the colouring of phea- 

 sants, 93 



Ryme Intrinsica, village of, 215, 

 219 



Salisbury Cathedral, birds on, 

 182 



Salt, Mr. Micah, a Buxton natura- 

 list, 125, 127 



Sandpiper, 130 



