INDEX 



273 



Miracles near home, 30 

 Miser, village, 251 

 Missel thrush, 45, 51 

 Moschatel, the tuberous, 214 

 Mottled umber moth, 182 

 Mystery of the wood, 3 



NIGHTINGALE, 57, 58 



OAKLEY STATION, 156 

 Orange tip butterfly, 163 

 Owl as insect-eater, 167 

 Ox-drove, the, 178 



PAINTED lady butterfly, 185 

 Paired birds, 110 

 Partridge, 25, 116, 144, 145 

 Peacock butterfly caterpillars, 194 

 Pearl skipper, 175 

 Peewit, 152, 155 

 Pepper and salt moth, 1 83 

 Pettigrew, 20 

 Pigeon's bow, a, 76 

 Pigou, Frederick, 142, 157 

 Plumage of birds, 136 

 Porritt's, Mr., moth studies, 182 



QUARLEY CLUMPS, 102 



RABBIT shooting, 106 



Rabbits, wariness of, 119 



Rarity, virtue in, 83 



Redbreast, 46, 81, 124 



Redshank, 149 



Redstart, 64 



Redwing, 88 



Ringlet butterfly, 37 



Rook, 74 



Rosebery, Lord, on smallholders, 



SAINFOIN, 266 



St. Ives Bay, 88 



Sand, penetrating power of, 129 



Sandpiper, 150 



Sands, curious appearance of, 141 



Satan, the insect, 178 



Scarlet tiger moth, 198 



Seagull's toy, 137 



Sedge warbler, 49, 57, 59 



" Sense of direction" in birds, 93 



'Sentinels," duck, 138 



Shamming wounded, 121 



Shelley, 83 



Shooting and angling, 99 



Silver studded blue butterfly, 188 



Singing weather, 44 



Skipper butterflies' flight, 37 



Skylarks in October, 44 



Smallholders, 246 



Snipe's "chuck, chuck," 154 



Snow blast, a, 128 



Song thrush, 43, 46 



Starling, 49, 77 



Staveley Works, 39 



Stillness in winter woods, 123 



Subtilised senses, 113 



Sway, 5 



Sympetrum striolatum, 39 



Syrphus, 38 



TAIL, a bird's, in flight, 19 

 Tea-things, poetry of, 100 

 Temperatures of bee hive, 208 

 Tennyson, 49 

 Thrift, 251 

 Thrush, 48, 50, 52 

 Traveller's joy, 229 

 Trees, their appeal to us, 2 

 Trout fishing, reasons for its 



attraction, 147 

 Trout's curve, 24 

 Turtle-dove, 45 



UNDERSONGS of birds, 69 



Underwoods, 6 



Utility in Nature, 50, 169 



VALEZINA, a variety of silver 

 washed fritillary, 184 



