INDEX 



425 



Cilicia, 148 



Clenstone, gathering of rooks at, 387 



Colles, Mr, on the traits of the short- 

 eared owl, 51 



Collins, Sir Robert, 150 



Coope, Rev. Frank, 22 



Cooper, Dr Jacob, incident with a brown 

 owl, 60 



Coot, 255, 265 ; nest, 269 



Corbies, The Twa, 123 



Corea, 83 



Corfe Castle, 174, 333 



Cornish, Mr, xiii ; his essay, 202 



Cornwall, 85 



Corvo, De, poem of, 182 



Corvus corax, 76 



Cowper, William, lines from, xiv 



Craigellachie, 379 



Cranborne Manor House, 334 



Crassus, 18 



Craterus, and his ravens, 161 



Creech Barrow, 338 



Crow or corvine tribe, 76 ; the warrior 

 carrion, 350 



Cuckoo, 206, 279 ; supposed hiberna- 

 tion, 208 ; size of the egg, 210 ; 

 manner of laying it, 21 1 ; its foster- 

 mother, 2ii ; mode of ejecting the 

 young, 212 



Culliford Tree, 338 



Culpepper's Bowl, 308 



Curlew, 25$ 



DABCHICK, 255 ; eggs, 276 



Daniel, Dr Williamson, 104 



Darwin, Charles, 46 



Dasent, his Story of Burnt Njal, 135 



note 

 Davy, Sir Humphry, his Salmonia, 



323 



Dean, Forest of, 49 

 Denmark, ravens of, 112, 



Derrick, his Image of Ireland, 324 



Devilish or Dewlish brook, 320 



Devon, 85 



Dewlish, 27 ; brook, 320 



Dickens, Charles, Barnaby Rudge^ 80 ; 



his pet raven, " Grip," 170 

 Digby, Mr John, his story of the raven 



and seagull, 163 

 Dixon, Mr, xiii 

 Dorchester, 33, 335 



Dorset, 2, 85 ; characteristics of, 82 ; 

 mediaeval abbeys, 333 ; castles, 333 ; 

 manor houses, 334 ; dialect, 353 ; 

 character of the people, 353-363, 

 beliefs and customs, 363-368 ; mag- 

 pies in, 307 



Down House, Blandford, 157, 399 

 Drake, the, 242, 245 ; his period of 



moulting, 249 



Dresser, his Birds of Europe, 25 note 

 Duck, a pin tailed, 266, 278 

 Duck, a shoveller, 267, 275 

 Ducks, tufted, 266, 283 ; nest, 278 

 Ducks, wild, 239, 411 ; cosmopolitan, 

 240 ; omnivorous, 240 ; their court- 

 ship, 241 ; nest, 243 ; number of 

 eggs, 243 ; process of incubation, 

 244 ; the ducklings, 245 ; maternal 

 anxieties, 246 ; the shooting season, 

 247, 251 ; want of wisdom, 248 ; 

 wariness, 251 ; stalking, 251-253 ; 

 flight shooting, 254 ; method of con- 

 structing a decoy, 258 ; practice of, 

 in China, 258 

 " Duck-hunt," 69 

 Duddle plantation, 310 

 Duillius, 103 



Dun-bird, 269 ; her eggs, 269 

 Dun Cliff, 338 

 Dunkerry Beacon, 337 



EGDON HEATH, 151, 307 ; pits of, 308 

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