400 



Wild Life in Wales 



Eels, 38. 



and Cormorants, 48. 



natural check upon, 202. 



in Stoat's larder, 331. 

 Eggs, 2, 3. 



number laid by insects, 63. 



spotted eggs of birds, 73. 

 Egg-shells, 1 80. 

 Eiddon brook, 59. 

 Ermine, 141. 

 Evil spirits, 209. 



Fairies, 329, 345. 

 Fairy butter, 387. 

 Falcon (see Peregrine). 

 Familiarity breeds contempt, 213, 332. 

 Farmer, contented, 12. 

 Farmers' friends, 89, 229, 246, 258, 

 265. 



toast, 13. 

 Farms, small, 3. 

 Fat pancakes, 2. 

 Feathers, study of, 360. 

 Ferns, 242, 376, 391. 

 Fertility, introduced, 391. 

 Fieldfares, 288. 

 Field mice, 159, 179. 

 Fir trees, 37i~373- 

 Fish, enemies of, 47. 



eaten by Stoats, etc., 331. 



effect of frost on, 85. 

 Fishing, 225, 230. 



extraordinary, 24. 



improvement of, 116 



season, 21. 

 Flails, 15. 

 Flight of Bats, 309. 



of birds, 54, 295, 298, 359, 367, 



Flint implements, 228. 

 Flood, the great, 102, 226. 

 Floods, summer, 169. 

 Flowers, varieties of, 150, 155. 



wild, 150, 392. 

 Flycatcher, Pied, 67, 73. 



Spotted, 72, 161. 

 Flying machine, an ideal, 295. 

 Food, birds and animals as, 49. 

 Food on fertility, influence of, 66. 

 Footprints in rock, 209. 

 Foxes, 94, 141, 342, 390. 

 Frog-hopper, 157. 

 Frogs, 83, 106. 



effect of frost upon, 85, 106. 

 Frost, its effect on insects, etc., 84. 

 Funerals, Ravens attending, 209. 

 Fungi, 387. 



Galena, 228, 393. 



Game coverts, 372. 

 Game, enemies of, 141. 

 Garden pets, 272, 376. 

 Gastric juices, power of, 224. 

 Geese, wild, 45. 



carnivorous, 160. 



omnivorous, 386. 



on mountains, 387. 

 Geology, 39, 101, 128, 153, 226, 375, 



391- 

 Giant's chair, 345. 



stairway, 120. 

 Giant story, 344. 

 Gleisiad, 35. 

 Glow-worm, 125. 

 Gnats, 86. 



Goatsucker (see Nightjar). 

 Golden-crested Wren, 178, 283. 

 Golden-eye, 40. 

 Goldfinch, 283, 377. 

 Gold-mining, 59, 228, 392. 

 Goosander, 45. 

 Grasses, 129. 



Poa annua, 154. 



viviparous, 151. 

 Grasshopper Warbler, 72. 

 Grayling, 20. 

 Grazing, close, I59 

 Grebe, Great Crested, 53. 



Little, 29, 40, 43, 52, 287. 

 Greenfinch, 161, 176. 

 Greenshank, 263, 282, 291. 

 Grouse, 35, 83, 184, 287, 395. 



diseased, 219. 



moors, 1 1 8. 



a falcon on, 296. 

 Gudgeon, 29. 

 Gulls, 257, 280, 291. 



black-headed, 88, 117, 280. 



herring, 280. 



Lesser Black-backed, 280. 

 Gwyniad, 30. 



origin of, 20. 



traditions regarding, 26. 



" Hag of midnight mist," 120. 

 Hand plough, 14. 

 Hare, 231, 353. 

 Harrier, Hen, 145. 

 Montagu's, 145. 

 Hawfinch, 76. 

 Hazels, abundance of, 62. 

 Heather, White, 155. 

 Hedgehog, 390, 395. 

 Hedges of Spiraea, 169. 

 Hedge Sparrow, 161, 179. 

 Helm Hawk, 251. 

 Heraldry, prototypes of, 48. 



