INDEX. 



A. 



Abundance, great, of Wildfowl, 167, 



259-60 



of Waders, 173, 254 



Accession to British Birds, 212 



Action of frost on the coast, 165 et seq. 



Adder, 25 



Algae marine, 163, 181 



Alpine swift, 48 



Altitude and N. latitude equivalents, 



82-3 



Among the wild geese, chap. xxiv. p. 200 

 Analogous instincts human and avian, 



83 



Andalu9ia, 20, 40, 240 

 Arctic regions, 4, 14, 39, 83, 239 

 Arctic Skua, 51, 78, 235, 237 

 Arkhope Cairn, 56 

 Attitudes of sea-fowl, &c., 222 

 August on the coast, 237 

 Auk, Little, 109, 231 

 Aurora borealis, 276 

 Autumn, first signs of, 51 



on the coast, 237 



Autumnal weather on the fells, 130 



B. 



"Baby migrants, "240 



Baltic navigation, 199, 259, 263 



Bar-tailed Godwit, 243, 254 



Bean Goose, 210 



Beau ideal of a wild -fowl resort, 156-7 



Bernicle Goose (footnote), 199 



Bewick's Swan, 166 



Bird -problems, 237 



Black-backed Gull, Great, 149 



Lesser, 28, 36, 127 



Blackbird, 84, 135 



Blackcock, 25, 121-2, 133 (see also 



' Blackgame ') 

 Blackgame, chap, xii., p. 87 



36-7, 50, 54, 121-2, 133 



Black Guillemot, 231 



Black-headed Gull, 8, 24, 35, 72, 127, 159 



Black-tailed Godwit, 243 



Black Tern, 45 



Black-throated Diver, 248 



Bleaberry, 55, 57, 91 



Brambling, 18 



Brent Goose, chap, xxiii. p. 191 



200 et seq., 258 et seq., 265 



Bullfinch, 135 

 Bull-trout, 28, 32 

 Bunting, Reed, 27 

 Butchery of young " Grey " 88-9 

 Buzzard, Common, 107-8, 268 

 Rough-legged, 108 



C. 



Canvas, wildfowling under, 228, 231 



Capercaillie, 103 



Caprice of Game, 84, 114 



Carrion Crow, 27, 70 



Carting to moorgame, chap. xiv. p. 110 



Chaffinch, 135, 144 



Cheviot, 1, 34, 53 



Cloud- berry, 55 



Clouded Yellow, 50 



Collectors, 19, 20 (foot-note), 107 



Configuration of N.E. coast, 155-6 



Coot, 270 



Coquet, 34, 97 



Cormorant, 33, 231, 250 



Corncrake, 8, 77 



