INDEX 



431 



142 ; at Savernake Forest, 150 ; 

 Knighton Heath, 150 ; movements 

 and intonations of voice, 152 : love 

 for his mate, 153 ; early maturity, 

 154 ; nest at Millicent Hill, 155 ; age, 

 156, 419-421 ; proverb on, 156 ; 

 attachment to places, I $7 ; as pets, 

 159 ; sociability, 159 ; powers of 

 mimicry, 159 ; anecdotes of, 160-164 ; 

 friendship with a dog, 161 ; with a 

 seagull, 163 ; love of mischief, 167 ; 

 pet raven of Stafford, 167-170; 

 "Jacob," 170; disappearance of, 

 173; his eye, 328 



Raven Tarn, 151, 310 



Ravencroft, Mr W., 130 note 



Rawlesbury, 333 



Reed warblers, 268, 279, 370 



Rempston Heath, 174 



Rhoades, Mr James, his translation of 

 Virgil's lines on the rook, 374 note 



Ridley, Mr Frank, on the solitary mag- 

 pie in Hyde Park, 319 



Rig Veda, hymns of the, mention of 

 the magpie in, 311 



Ringsted, cliffs of, 231 



Robins, 414 



Rodney, victory of, in 1780, 118 



Roe-deer, 309, 350 



Rome, funeral of a raven at, 104-106 



Rooks, 370 ; characteristics, 370 ; their 

 solemn convocations, 372, 382 ; 

 nests, 372 ; love-making, 373 ; waste 

 of labour, 374 ; their punishments, 

 376 ; migrations, 377 ; service to the 

 farmers, 377 ; eviction of, 379 ; in- 

 stances of desertion of rookeries, 380- 

 382 ; sociability, 386 ; gathering of, 

 at Warmwell, 387 



Roxburghshire, rookery deserted by 

 rooks, 381 



Rutger's College, New Brunswick, 60 



SALISBURY, Bishop of, his right to be 

 called the " Bishop of Ravens," 175 



Saltburn-on-Sea, a raven killed at, 104 



Sandpiper, 255 



Sandwich Islands, 46 



Sandy, 48 



Saragossa, 117 



Savernake Forest, 149 ; characteristics 

 of, 149 ; raven's nest at, 150 



Sayer's Wood, 67 



Scandinavia, 83, 239 ; the raven in, 134 



Scaup, 283 



Scotland, 84 ; havoc wrought by voles, 



49 

 Scott, Sir Walter, on the hoot of the 



w l) 57 ; his lines on the raven, 109 

 Seagull and a raven, friendship be- 

 tween, 163 

 Sea-pye, 283, 291 

 Sedge-warblers, 268, 279, 369 

 Selborne, 14 

 Senlac, victory at, 138 

 Shaftesbury, 338 

 Shakespeare on the hoot of the owl, 56 ; 



references to the raven, 79, 90, 125- 



127 ; his lines on the magpie, 303 ; 



on the rook, 386 ; on the kingfisher, 



401 



Sheldrake, 283 



Shelley, on the hoot of the owl, 59 

 Sherborne Abbey, 333 ; Castle, 333, 



338 ; Park, 174 

 Sherwell, Mr J., his story of a raven, 



161 



Shetland Islands, 83, 239 

 Sinai, Mount, 84 

 Sirikol, Lake, 240 

 Sixpenny Hanley, 146 

 Skeat, Professor, on the names given 



to the raven, 93 

 Smith, Canon Reginald, 235 

 Smith, Colonel Walter Marriott, loo 



