INDEX 



433 



Tigris, the, 18 



Tincleton, 231, 387 



Tit, the long-tailed, her nest, 198 



Tithe- barn, the old, 227 



Toad, stoned by a magpie, 331 



Tree-creeper, 58 note, 403 



Tree-magpie, 304 



Treviss, George, 233 



Turtle-dove, 412 



Tweed, the, 52 



Tyrol, belief in the raven-stone, ua 



Ulula, the, 16 



VALENCIA, 117 



Valerius, 103 



Vincent, St, legend of, 117 ; martyr- 

 dom of, 179-182 



Vinland or Greenland, discovery of, 

 140 



Virgil, his lines on the raven, 86 ; on 

 the rook, 374 



Voles, the devastating, 49-52 



Voltaire, his objection to the name 

 " Holy Roman Empire," 336 



WAGTAILS, foster-parents to a cuckoo, 



212 

 Walker, Rev. M. G., Natural History 



of the Ancients, 24 note 

 Walsingham, Lord, 271 

 Warblers, sedge and reed, 268, 279 

 Wareham, 151 ; fair day, 207 

 Warmwell, 231, 334 ; gathering of 



rooks at, 387 



Water-rail, the, 255 ; her nest, 272 

 Water-rat, 255 

 Water-wagtail, 415 ; his movements, 



416 ; nest, 416 ; devotion to each 



other, 417 

 Waterton, Charles, 76 ; his Essay s^ 13, 



121 note ; his observations on owls, 



13, 31 ; his pet raven, " Marco," 170 ; 

 on wild ducks, 241 ; on the number 

 of magpies' nests in his park, 288 

 Wedmore, Peace of, 136 

 Wessex, 136 

 Westcott, Bishop, his observations on 



rooks, 384 

 Whatcombe, 359 

 Wheat-ears, 412 

 Whin Green, 338 

 Whinchat, 274 



White, Gilbert, on the habits of the 

 barn owl, 13, 31 ; on its mode of 

 flyingi 55 ; Ws story of the " Raven 

 Tree," 133 ; proposed tribute to his 

 memory, 178; on the night-jars of 

 Selborne, 208 ; on the hibernation of 

 the swallow, 209 ; his observations 

 on swifts, 220 ; biography of his 

 tortoise, " Timothy," 221 

 Whitechurch Down, 38 

 Whitenose Cliff, 85, 232, 387 

 Whittlesea-Mere, 239 

 Wigeon, 255, 271 

 Wight, Isle of, 84, 337 

 Wild Birds Preservation Act, 412 

 William the Conqueror, his raven 



standard, 138 

 Wimborne, 141 ; Abbey, 333 ; stream, 



1 86 



Woking, 151 

 Wolfeton, 334 

 Wolmer Forest, 178 

 Wood, J. G., My Feathered Friends, 70 



note 



Woodbury Hill, 338 ; fair, 207 

 Woodhouse, Mr Edward, 322 

 Woodhouse, Miss Ellen, 366 

 Woodpecker, the green, 238, 279, 394 ; 

 its structure, 404 ; " laugh," 405 ; 

 pet names, 405 ; habits, 406 ; 

 " sounding " a tree, 407 ; her eggs, 



