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INDEX 



Benedict, St, legend of, 1 16 

 Bere Regis, 44 



Bible, mentions of the raven in, 77, 87 



Biddulph, Mr, 191 



Bindon Abbey, 333 



Bingham, Charles, 206 



Bingham's Melcombe, 2, 12, 27; 

 Coombe of, 174 ; the Old Manor 

 House at, 333 ; its age, 334 ; posi- 

 tion, 336 ; the gateway, 338 ; " Gate 

 House," 339 ; the court, 339 ; roof, 

 341 ; interior, 342 ; the hall, 342 ; 

 " The Moons," 343 ; " A r m a d a 

 T a b 1 e," 344 J the garden, 345 ; 

 bowling-green, 347 ; yew hedge, 348 ; 

 wild animals of, 348 ; birds, 369 



Birds, hermit, instances of, 318-323 



Birds of Bingham's Melcombe, 369 



Birds, Society for the Protection of, 

 xiii 



Bismarck, Prince, 148 



Bittern, the, 177 



Blackbirds, 414 



Blackmoor, Vale of, 337 



Blaikie, Dr J. Brunton, 381 



Blandford, 104, 335 ; grammar school 

 at, 2 



Blandford, Milton Abbas School at, 

 141 



Bloxworth, 334 ; Heath, 174 



Bockhampton Hang, 338 



Bolt Head and Bolt Tail, 85 



Boyle, his book On Colour, 92 



Bramblecoombe, 352 



Brand, his Popular Antiquities, 314 note 



Branksea Island, 338 



British Museum, white raven in the, 92 



Broadmayne, 208 



Broughton, Higher, 51 



Browne, Sir Thomas, Qn the ravens of 

 Norfolk, 173 ; his translation of the 

 lines on the raven, 419 



Bryanston Park, 174 



Bu-ru-ru, the, 16 



Bubo, the, 15 



Buckland, Frank, 34 



Buckland Newton, 174 



Buff on, the naturalist, 259 



Bufo or mofo, 1 6 



Bulbarrow, 360 ; view from, 337 



Bull, H. G., Notes on the Birds of 



Herefordshire, 28 note 

 Bullfinch, 412 

 Bunker's Hill, 28$ 

 Bunting, the black-headed, 268, 370 

 Bush magpie, 304, 309 

 Bustard, the, 177 

 Butler, Rev. G. W., 208 

 Buxton, Mr Edward N., 178 

 Buzzards, 177, 414 



CAME, 387 ; Park, 174 



Candover House, rookery deserted by 



rooks, 381 



Carew, Thomas, lines from, 209 

 Carlstadt, 314 

 Carrhae, 18 

 Carthage, Roman aqueduct of, 101 ; 



nest of an owl and raven at, 102 

 Castle Hill, 338 

 Caucasus, 84 

 Cerne Abbey, 333 

 Ceyx, legend of, 400 

 Chaucer, his mention of the magpie, 



326 



Chaldon, 86 



Charborough Tower, 338 

 Charles the Great, 136 

 Charles I., King, on the miracle of 



Elijah and the ravens, 131 

 China, method of catching wild ducks 



in, 258 



Chough, the Cornish, 177 

 Christchurch, 151 



