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INDEX 



Einsiedeln, Monastery of, 1 19 



El Monte de las cuervas, or " the raven 



rock," 118 

 Elbruz, Mount, 84 

 Eliot, George, 259 

 Elizabeth, Empress, murder of, ill 

 England, Archdeacon, rector of West 



Stafford, 231 



Essex, destruction by voles, 49 

 Ethandun, victory of, 136 

 Euphrates, the, 18 

 Evans, Mr, The Songs of Birds, 27 

 Exmoor, forest of, 173 

 Eye, Evil, belief in the, 366 

 Eyemouth, 190 



FALCONRY, sport of, 68 



Faroe Islands, 83 



Finn and her magpie, 314 



Flamborough, 84 



Flokki, his expedition, 139 ; discovery 



of Iceland, 140 

 Florentius, 116 

 Floyer, Mr John, 233 

 Fly-catcher, the spotted, 415 

 Foster, Professor, 76 

 Fowler, Mr Ward, xiii, 74 ; his Year 



with the Birds, 374 note 

 Fox takes shelter in a magpie's nest, 



300 



Frampton, Mr, 155 

 France, magpies in, 313 

 Francis Joseph, Emperor, appearances 



of ravens to, no 

 Frederick Barbarossa, Emperor, legend 



of, 148 



Freshwater Cliffs, 84 

 Frome, 186 ; River, 251; Valley of 



the, 309, 360 



Fryer Mayne, clay-beds of, 184 

 Furneaux Islands, the petrels or 



" mutton-birds " of, 397 



GAD CLIFF, 85 



Gadwall, 266 ; her nests, 269, 272, 

 279 



Galapagos, islands of, 46 



Galicia, over-run by voles, 49 



Galton Common, 174 



Gamekeeper, definition of a good, 233 



" Gate House " at Bingham's Mel- 

 combe, 339 



Geese, wild, 256 



Gerbert, Pope Sylvester II., 115 



Germany, superstitions about ravens, 

 us ; folk-lore on the magpie, 312 



Gill, George, 233 



Glastonbury Tor, 174 



Goldfinch, 238, 412 



Gould, anecdote of, 64 



Grange, the, rookery deserted by 

 rooks, 380 



Greenland, discovery of, 140 



Grimm, his Teutonic Mythology, 314 note 



Guadalquiver, 240 



Gubernatis, Angelo de, Ornithological 

 Mythology, 314 note 



Guest, Dr, 147 



Gurney, Mr J. H,, 163 ; on the age of 

 a raven, 420 



Guthrun, surrender and baptism of, 136 



HAMBRO, Mr Everard, 352 



Hardy, Mr Thomas, 151 ; Return of the 

 Native, 192 ; raciness of his dialogues, 

 233, 358 ; his birthplace, 338 



Hare, a, pursued by owls, 48 



Harrier, 177 



Harrow, pet raven at, 1 70 



Harting, Mr, 50 



Hawfinch, 413 



Hawker, Colonel, on wild-fowl shooting 

 247 



Hayne, Mr Robert, 84 



Hebrides, 83 



