INDEX 



ALUM BAY, 181 



Angling, the evening rise, 126 



Angling, thrall of, 144 



Angling our friend, 98 



Argus, wall, 180 



Arnold, William, 9 



Assheton Smith, 8 



BAT'S flight, 40 



Beauty, problem of, 151 



Bedford blue, 175 



Bedstraw, white, 23G 



Beeches, 219 



Bee, the hive, 32, 200 



Bees, sack and slaughter of, 210 



Bees and cold, 207 



Bird voyage, a great, 85 



Birds' reasoning powers, 118 



Bird "sentinels," 118 



Blackbird's cackle, 125 



Blackcap, 60, 70 



Blackmoor Forest, 235 



Blue butterfly, 165, 181 



Bracken fern, 226 



Brephos moth, 190 



Bryony, black, 230, 237 



Bryony, red, 234 



Bugloss, 240 



Burnet moth, six spot, 191 



Butterflies and sun, 180 



Butterflies' flight, 18, 174 



Butterflies, the study of, 89 



" CARPET " moths, flight of, 18 

 Carrion crow, 74, 75, 113 



Caterpillars and colour protection, 



183 



Cattle caravans, 266 

 Cattle drovers, 267 

 Chaffinch, 18, 49, 54 

 Character of the smallholder, 246 

 Chervil's will power, 214 

 Chiff-chaff, 81 

 Cinnabar caterpillar, 238 

 Girl bunting, 62 

 Cirro-cumulus clouds, 258 

 Cleavers, 229, 236 

 " Cluttery " weather, 45 

 Cobbett, 264 

 Cole, river, 143 

 Colour protection, 122, 182 

 Competition, merciless, in Nature, 



226 



Cormorant's toilet, 139 

 Corn, 258 

 Curlew, 127, 129 

 Curves, virtue of, 23 



DANEBURY, 102 

 Darwin, Miss, 22 

 Deane, 60 



Distribution of birds, 96 

 Drones, story of the, 205 

 Dropwort, 242 

 Dunlin, 26, 128 



EGG-SEARCHER and woodcock, 



109 



Elm, 43 

 Emerson's " Compensation," 26 



