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INDEX 



Saunders, Howard, on the furze- 

 wren, 176 

 Seabirds, destruction of, 37-8 

 Sheep, in the Peak district, 121 ; 



on the downs, 260 

 Sherborne Abbey, the colour of, 



181 

 Silchester, birds' bones in ash pits 



at, 86 

 Sinclair, Sir John, nightingales 



bred by, 244 

 Siskin, black-headed, a memory 



of, 220-3 

 Southey, mocking-bird described 



by, 207 

 Sparrow-hawk, small bird killed 



by, 171 ; nesting in hill-top 



grove, 266-7 : hunting method 



of, 269-71 

 Sparrows driving out martins, 293 

 Spencer, Herbert, on love of 



wildness in man, 276 

 Squirrel, hunting a, 297 ; eccen- 

 tric behaviour of a, 286 

 Starling mimicry, 210 

 Starlings teasing a kestrel, 301 ; 



accompanying wild geese, 303 ; 



unity in flock, of, 304 

 Stuart-Wortley, A., on pheasant 



shooting, 91 

 Swallow, habits of, 50 ; forsaking 



their young, 288 ; wintering 



in England, 292 

 Swan, friendship of with a trout, 



81-2 

 Swift, a habit of the, 49 

 Swinburne, poetry of, 225 



Teal anecdotes, 74-7 

 Terns, breeding-place, 33 

 Tilshead, village of, 72 

 Tinamou, spotted, love call of, 1 29 



Tintern Abbey, birds breeding on, 



204 

 Tree-climbing contests, 257 

 Troupials (Icteridez), 9, 16, 77 

 Trumpeter, friendly disposition of, 



47 



Vizcacha, a S. American rodent, 

 20 



Wallace, Dr. A. R., 149 



Walnut-tree, a noble, 203 



Walton, Isaac, on nightingale's 

 song, 235 



Warbler, marsh, colony, 304-5 ; 

 song and imitations, 207-10 ; 

 listening to the, 213-14 



Wareham, St. Mary's, 1 56 



Water-squealer, 130 



Wells-next-the-Sea, character of, 

 25 ; a wood at, 58 ; on the 

 saltings at, 95 ; return to, 280 



Whinchat, song of, 128 ; night- 

 singing, 148 ; marsh warblers 

 imitation of, song of, 210 



White, Gilbert, on the music of 

 field crickets, 142 ; on last 

 ravens, 256 



Wild bird protection legislation, 



37 

 Willow wren, at Harrogate, 144 ; 



song of mimicked by marsh 



warbler, 209, 210 

 Willughby, on the nightingale, 246 

 Wimborne, church at, 156 

 Winscombe, village of, 200 

 Witchell, C. A., on bird music, 187 

 Wolf, a pet, 69-71 



Yeovil, sand martins at, 49 ; 



nightingale at, 182 

 Yetminster, village of, 215 



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