Index 



403 



Rabbit, 231, 232, 326. 



Rail, Water, 291. 



Railway-side nests, 169. 



Rams' Castle, 228. 



Rare birds, untimely end of, 290. 



Rats, 320. 



Rattlewing, 45. 



Raven, 94, 120, 186, 189, 191, 204, 214, 



249, 3 6 9, 393- 

 Ravens God, 207. 

 Red-handed thieves of Dinas, 127, 



247. 



Redpolls, 287, 378. 

 Redshank, 263, 282. 

 Redstart, 280, 285. 

 Redwing, 288. 

 Reed Bunting, 280. 

 Refuse thrown into rivers, 22. 

 Reindeer moss, 278. 

 Repairing damaged feather, 352. 

 Rhiw Argor, 120. 

 Rhyd-y-bod, 229. 

 Ring Ouzel, 134, 162, 181, 213, 258, 



286, 393. 

 Roach, 37. 

 Roadside nests, 181. 

 Robin, 161, 287. 

 Rock gardening, 155. 

 Rock plants, 153. 

 Roman intruders, 115. 

 road, 97, 228. 

 remains, 98, 144, 227, 391. 

 Rook, 81, 187, 191, 195, 257, 266, 



369. 

 Rookery, birds nesting in, 187, 199. 



roosting in, 193. 

 Roots of plants, 155. 

 Round table, 98. 

 Rudd, 37. 

 Rushes, 151. 

 Rush-light, 229. 



Sable singers, 81. 



Sagacity and cunning of birds, 217. 



Sailor's curse, 291. 



Salmon, 20. 



disease, 219. 

 SalmonidcB) 20, 381. 

 Sand Martin, 198, 283, 304. 

 Sandpiper, 161, 169, 263, 285, 302. 



Green, 291. 

 Saxons, 115, 144. 

 Scavengers, Nature's, 218, 253. 



of moor, 395. 

 Scenery, grand, 226. 

 " Screws," 86. 

 Seagulls, 257. 

 Sea Trout, 35. 

 Seeds, vitality of, 115. 



Sentinels, good, 44. 

 Shag, 50. 

 Shearwaters, 291. 

 Sheep, 129. 



accident to a, 219. 



aquatic, 107. 



breeding, 7. 



clipping lambs, 10. 



eating lichens, 278. 



improvement in, 8. 



leading a, 3. 



neglect of, 4, 8. 



numbers of, 5. 



rot in, 257. 



sales and fairs, 7. 



tithering rams, n. 



types of, 10. 



valuations of, 9. 



worrying, 6. 

 Sheldrake, 253. 

 Shooting butts, 130. 

 Shoveler, 45. 

 Shrews, 160. 

 Shrew, Common, 66, 258. 



Lesser, 260. 



Oared, 260. 



Water, 259. 



Shrike, Red-backed, 161, 237, 287. 

 Shrubs and trees destroyed by Starlings, 



196. 



Silk dress and mulberry leaf, 64. 

 Siskin, 289. 

 Skellies, 114. 

 Skip-jack beetles, 256. 

 Slow-worm, 376. 

 Slugs and snails eaten by birds, 265, 



374, 387. 

 Smell, power of birds to, 215. 



power of animals to, 341. 

 Smoke-like wreaths of midges, 87. 

 Snake and its prey, 353. 

 Snipe, 99, 258. 



Great, 291. 



Jack, 101, 258. 



Summer, 174. 

 Soaring, 250. 



Song in birds, cause of, 275. 

 Song Thrush, 35, 103-5, *6l. 

 Songs, strange, 81, 357. 

 Sparrow, 280, 286. 



Tree, 288. 

 Sparrow-Hawk, 135, 172, 193, 239, 283, 



287, 289, 347, 354. 

 Sparrow pie, 49. 



Spinners and troellwrs, 72, 99, 357. 

 Spiraea hedges, 169. 

 Sporting instinct, 138. 

 Sportsmen endowed with instinct only, 

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