CONTEiNTS. ix 



Nightingale migrating birds Rooks love long avenues Starlings- 

 great flights social habits breeding a stray bird actions before roost- 

 ing congregate very attentive to their young journeyings Laborious 

 life of birds Red-start Starling, brown habits a very dusky bird 

 Hawks capture by intimidation single out individuals Early seasons 

 bring rain Blooming of the white thorn Migrating birds their conduct 

 Butcher bird Gray fly -catcher Thrush instance of affection motives 

 of action utility in a garden Sparrows domestic habits manners 

 increase destruction great consumers of insects accommodating appe 

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Creatures associating with man Common mouse Rat House-fly Utility 

 of animals Conduct of man The dog Wheatear Country amusements 

 often cruel Supplication for pity Eggs their markings Foolish super- 

 stition Kite his habits great capture of Blackcap habits song 

 nest food shyness habits of our occasional visiting birds Petty chaps 

 White throats Willow wren Fear of man in animals Stratagem of 

 a wren Instinct Awakening of birds Early morning Morning in 

 autumn Goldfinch captured die in the winter soon reconciled to 

 captivity Tree-creeper winters in England not an increasing bird 

 Yellow wagtail Rapacious birds Passerine birds Buntings unthatch- 

 ing corn ricks Old tokens and signs White lily Pimpernel Mistle- 

 thrush his note breeds near the dwellings of man Change of char- 

 acter in birds Love of offspring Divine appointments Jack snipe 

 solitary habits Christmas shooter Association of birds Peewit habits 

 eggs Prognostications Hedge-fruit Fieldfares Redwings feeding 

 in the lowlands uplands Egg of the fieldfare Rural sounds notes of 

 birds Plumage of birds Song of birds Woodlark habits voice 

 capture Language of man of birds Note significant of danger 

 Singing a spontaneous effusion Variety of note in same species 'Lady- 

 bird' note of a song-thrush Croaking of the nightingale Admiration 

 of birds Cleanly and innocent creatures . 150 181) 



Knowledge slowly obtained Entomology a difficult study Wonders around 

 us The objects of many insects unknown Chrysalis of a moth Four- 

 spotted dragon-fly Ghost moth soon destroyed Specimens of plumage 

 of butterflies Argus butterfly a pugnacious insect combats Azure 

 butterfly seldom seen Hummingbird sphinx habits wildness tamed 

 by familiarity feigns death Painted lady butterfly uncertain in ap- 

 pearing Marble butterfly Wasp Meadow-brown butterfly Yellow 

 winged moth Admirable butterfly Gamma-moth Goat-moth their 

 numbers odor power of destruction Larvae of phalrena cossus, where 

 plentifully found Designs of nature Evening ramble Insects abound- 

 ing ignorance of their objects Glow-worms curious contrivance about 

 their eyes light migration Snake eggs destruction harmless in Eng- 

 land antipathy of mankind to the race Paucity of noxious creatures 

 inhabiting with us Small bombyx Vigilance animation quarrels 

 Black ant combats of strength Red ants mortality Yellow ants- 

 winter nests millipedes support great degree of cold Stagnated water 

 abounding with insects Newt his voracity Water flea an amusing 

 insect observed by boys Dorr-beetle their numbers feign death to 

 avoid injury Cleanliness of creatures in health Recurrence to causes 

 Cockchafers Changes in nature Death's-head moth chrysalides super- 



