INDEX. 



443 



Geese sacred among the ancients, 352 



sagacity and watchfulness of, 

 352 



instances of attachment in, 352 



various anecdotes of, 352 



Bernacle, or Tree, 362 

 Gigantic Crane, or Hurgila, 324 

 Gizzard, functions of the, 48, 49 

 Goat- Sucker, bill of the, 31 



mouth of the, 241, 259 



South American, 261 



Goldfinches, anecdote of, 217 - 



sagacity of, 218 



sociability of, 219 



age attained by, 221 



Grackles, 175, 199 



Grebe, 419 



crested, shot at Adlington, 



Cheshire, 421 

 Guillemots, 422, 424 

 Gulls, 398 



feeding on herrings, 401 



anecdote of a pair, 402 



Laughing, their breeding-place 



in Norfolk, 406 

 Gullet, 45 



Hare and Hawk, contest between, 



136 



Hawk tribe, 93, 121 

 Hawking, 125 

 Hawks rearing Chickens, 142 



why respected by Turks, 143 



Hen kills mice, 285 



swimming, 285 



Herons taken by Hawking, 129 



assemblage of, 194 



legs allure fish, 316 



feathers, 317 



voracity of, 317 



Honey-Buzzard feeds on Wasps, 140 

 Hoopoe, 262, 264 

 Hornbills, bills of, 32 



general character, 174 



Horned Screamer, Palamadea cor- 



nuta, 312 



Hospital for Cranes and Storks, 320 

 Humming-Birds, 262, 266 

 Hurgila, or Gigantic Crane, 324 



"fbis, Sacred, 346 

 Imitative power of birds, 57 



Injuries from Crows and Rooks, 196 

 and benefits from, small birds, 



229 



Insects, quantity devoured by Swal- 

 lows, 248 



Rooks and Crows destructive 



to, 189 



frost favourable to, 200 



Instinct nearly allied to reason, in- 

 stance in Ducks, 381 



Jabiru, 326 



Jacamars, 269 



Jacana walks on water-plants, 312 



Jackdaws, 203 



Jays, partial migration of, 83 



killed by Hawks, 137 



general character, 207 



Kingfisher, 265 



King Penguin, 431 



Kites once common in London, 127 



Land-birds found far at sea, 77 



Language of birds, 61 



Lapwing, food of the, 336 



Larks, 232 



Latirostres, flat-beaked, 329 



Laughing Gull, account of, 406 



Leg-bones, 38 



Legs of Herons allure fish, 316 



Levirostral, light-billed, 275 



Light on American Bittern's breast, 



317 

 Light-houses a decoy for birds, 91, 



334 



Linnets' affection for their young, 228 

 Longipennes, 396 



Magpies, 208, 324 



sagacity of, 208 



nurse young Ravens, 209 



Manakins, 232 



Mate, birds choose new ones when the 



old ones die, 180, 252 

 Meetings of Crows and other birds, 



192, 322 



Mice killed by a Hen, 285 

 Migration of Cuckoos, 270 



Nightingales, 238 



Swallows, 247 



Storks and Cranes, 318 



