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INDEX. 



BULLFINCH, not taking alarm, 100 ; 

 music, 114 



BUMBLE-BEES in November, 182 



BUSTARD, 157 



BUTCHER-BIRDS, arrival, 87 ; de- 

 parture, 140 



BUTTERFLY resisting Indian heat, 

 184 ; " first white," 46 



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CAGE-BIRDS, longevity of, 83 



CAMPION in December, 189 



CANARY killing hen, 53 



CARRION CROW, arrival, 173 ; and 

 hoodies, 173 



CAT, maternal instinct, 125 



CAT-RABBIT, 188 



CATERPILLAR in winter, 5, 51 ; 

 " plagues " of, 129, 130 ; escaping 

 from wasp, 153 



CHAFFINCHES, immature migra- 

 ting, 57, 158, 161 ; mobbing owl, 



175 



CHIFFCHAFF, arrival, 54 : wander- 

 ing, 136; slow traveller, 141; 

 staying in England, 141 



COCOANUT and tits, 27 



COCKLES eaten by hoodie-crows, 

 20 



CORNBUNTING, trivial song, 113 



CORNCRAKE. See LANDRAIL. 



CORNFLOWERS and goldfinches, 1 16, 

 127 



COWSLIPS and primrose, 63 



CROWN IMPERIAL, growth in spring, 



CROWS, intelligence and scarecrows, 

 40 ; feeding young koel, 124 ; in 

 heat, 183 



CUCKOO, unchanged note, 103 ; and 

 female, 103; "beat" of male, 

 103 ; origin of habits, 104 ; de- 

 parture, 113-116, 140; foster 

 parents' care, 124 ; fed by other 

 birds, 124; resemblance to hawk, 

 125; travelling, 143, 170; "hi- 

 bernating," 187 



CUCKOO-FLOWER, 58 



i CURLEW, arrival, 137 

 j CYPRESS in spring, 33 



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DABCHICKS, 16 

 DAFFODILS, month of, 45 

 DAHLIAS in frost, 181 

 DAISY and insects, 152 

 DEADNETTLE in spring, 59 

 DEER washed by rain, 106 

 DOG, and man, Nature's view of, 

 92; maternal instinct, 125; at- 

 tracts foreign birds, 180; and 

 waterfowl, 1 80 



DOR-BEETLE, caught by hoodie- 

 crows, 19 



DRINKER-MOTH CATERPILLAR, 59 

 DUCK eating chickens, 68 j leaving 

 eggs, 121 



EGGS, early, 52 ; vitality of, 122 ; 



collectors, 31 

 ELMS, flowering of, 49 ; in mild 



winter, 202 

 I EVOLUTION, necessity the mother 



of, HI ; reversed, 112 



FALCON, power of stoop, 23, 143 



FIELDFARE, starving, 30 ; hand- 

 some, 30 ; affinity to nightingale, 

 70 ; delaying, 73 ; departure, 87 ; 

 family chatter, loo ; arrival, 168, 

 171, 194 



FIELDMICE in corn, 131 



FISH, small, and dead frog, 12; 

 moving upstream, 14 ; in shallows, 



14 



FLIES on Michaelmas daisy, 151 ; 



escaping from wasp, 153 

 FLOWERS in winter, I ; in autumn, 



151 ; in spring, 59 ; on stream 



bank, 12 



