428 



INDEX 



Ledbury, 191 



Lee, Rev. E., 364 



Lewell, 251, 387 



Lilford, Lord, 326 



Lindisfarne, Isle of, 118 



Littlewood plantation, 157 



Lob Nor, 240 



Longfellow, H. W., on the Raven Inn, 



120 



Lowell, Mr, 58 

 Ludbrog, Ragnar, a famous sea-king, 



135 



Lulworth Cove, 387 

 Lulworth, West, 86 ; ravens at, 175 

 Lumsden, Sir Peter, 378 ; his mode of 



evicting rooks, 379 

 Lycabettus, 100 

 Lytton, Bulwer, Eugene Aram, 35 note 



MACGILLIVRAY, 76 ; his British Biras, 

 99 note, 298 ; observations on ravens, 



98 



Madeira, discovery of, 118 

 Maeterlinck, The Life of a Bee, 299 

 Magpie, 281, 350; confined in a cage, 

 281 ; appearance, 283 ; tail, 284, 

 301 ; eyes, 284 ; beak, 284 ; strength 

 of its leg, 285 ; characteristics, 286, 

 325, 328 ; exaggeration of his mis- 

 deeds, 288 ; habits, 289 ; name, 290- 

 292 ; construction of her nest, 292- 

 297 ; legends, 293, 295, 311 ; affec- 

 tion for his offspring, 297, 317 ; for a 

 brood of ravens, 300 ; chatter, 302 ; 

 varieties of, 304 ; resorts, 306-309 ; 

 geographical range, 311 ; in classical 

 mythology, 312; in German folk-lore, 

 312 ; Italy, 313 ; France, 313 ; 

 Scandinavia, 314 ; revenge of a, 314 ; 

 belief in England, 315 ; appearance 

 of a single, 316, 323 ; case of a 

 solitary, 318 ; history of, in Ireland, 



324 ; mention of, in poetry, 326 ; as 



a pet, 327 ; compared to the raven, 



327 ; power of imitating human 



speech, 328 ; thieving habits, 329 ; 



love of sport, 331 

 Maiden Castle, 333 

 Mallards, 238, 266; colouring of, 238 

 Mallet, his Northern Antiquities, 140 



note 



Mansel-Pleydell, Mr John, 359, 387 

 Maria Christina, Archduchess, 1 10 

 Marlowe, Christopher, his lines on the 



kingfisher, 401 



Martins, 218 ; habits, 218 ; nests, 219 

 Mary's Loch, St, 51 

 Maximilian, Emperor, no 

 Maxwell, Sir Herbert, xiii, 50 ; his 



Memoirs of the Months, 401 

 Mayor Pond, 38 

 Meggett, the, 51 

 Meinrad, St, legend of, 119 

 Melcombe Horsey, 354 ; Park, 348, 369 

 Mendips, 337 



Mercia, Penda, king of, 118 

 Merganser, 283 

 Mexico, lakes of, 240 ; massacre of 



ducks by Indians, 257 

 Meyer, H. L., his story of an owl, 70 

 Mildert, Bishop Van, 384 

 Millicent Hill, 155, 310; raven's nest 



at, 156 

 Milton, his lines on the swan, 79 ; on 



the raven, 131 



Milton Abbas School, Blandford, 141 

 Milton Abbey, 174, 333, 411 

 Montgomery Bishop, 398 

 Montgomery, James, his lines on the 



magpie, 327 

 Moor-hen, 255, 411 

 Moreton, 155, 387 



Morocco, belief regarding the owl, 25 

 Mount Pleasant, 375 



