432 



INDEX 



Smith-Marriott, Sir William, 399 

 Smollett, Roderick Random, 80 

 Smugglers, 231 

 Snipe, 255, 268 



Somersetshire, magpies in, 307 

 Southey, Robert, his lines on the raven, 



121 

 Sparrow, 187, 195, 415 ; neglect of her 



young, 132 ; merits, 196 ; demerits, 



196 ; number of broods a year, 197 ; 



nests, 198 

 Sparrow-hawk, 350 ; his solitary life, 



322 



Spencer, his mention of the raven, 121 

 Spetisbury, 142 

 Spey, the, 379 

 Sporting Anecdotes, Original and Select, 



extract from, 22 

 Stafford, pet raven of, 167-170 

 Stafford Rectory, 184 ; interior, 185 ; 



staircases, 186 ; thatched roof, 187 ; 



the birds of, 187, 194 ; outbuildings, 



189 ; the old tithe-barn, 227 

 Stafford, West, 2 

 Stag, longevity of, 420 

 Standard newspaper quoted, 314 

 Stanley, Bishop, 306 

 Stanley, his Familiar History of Birds, 



24 note 



Starlings, 187, 200, 414 ; characteris- 

 tics, 200 ; in search of insects, 201 ; 



instinct of imitation, 202 ; eggs, 203 ; 



sociability, 204 ; roosting-places, 204 ; 



evolutions at sunset, 205 ; their dirty 



habits, 410 

 Stevenson, H., Birds of Norfolk, 173 



note 



Stock House, 212 

 Stone-chats, 412 



Stone curlew, or Norfolk plover, 413 

 Stour, the, 399 ; valley, 360 

 Strixflammea, or the white owl, 5 



Studland, 85 



Sturminster Newton, 335 



Suliman mountains, 84 



Swainson, Rev. Charles, Provincial 

 Names of British Birds, 113 note ; on 

 ravens' neglect of their young, 129, 

 130 



Swallows, 1 88, 206 ; first appearance 

 of, 213 ; nest, 214 ; evolutions, 215 ; 

 song, 216 ; "puddling the clay," 

 217 ; maternal love, 217 



Swan's Speculum Mundi, on the neglect 

 of ravens for their young, 130 



Swans, mention of, by Milton, 79 ; 

 black, 91 



Sweden, ravens of, in 



Swifts, 1 88, 219 ; date of arrival, 222 ; 

 materials for their nests, 222 ; eggs, 

 223 ; experiments on, 224 ; powers 

 of flight, 225 ; at sunset, 226 ; im- 

 pulse of migration, 227 



Swyre Head, 85 



TAURUS, Mount, 84 



Taylor, J. H., 142 



Tchad Lake, 240 



Teal, 266 



Templecombe, 354 



Tennyson, his lines on the owl, 7, 32, 

 34, 58 ; his epithet for the raven, 

 157 ; lines on the rook, 385 ; on the 

 kingfisher, 401 



Thatched cottages, duration of, 190 ; 

 its antiseptic qualities, 191 



Thatching, art of, 191-194 



Theocritus, the Sicilian poet, 400 



Thessaly over-run by voles, 49 



Thian Shan Mountains, 84 



Thiselton-Dyer, Sir William, his Eng- 

 lish Folk-Lore, 314 note 



Thrushes, 414 



Thur lest one, 22 



