NATURE AND SPORT IN BRITAIN 



Sussex: marsh in, a, 1-14; peasants, 

 speech of, 3 ; smugglers, 10-12 ; 

 Congreve and longshoremen of, 

 1 1 ; fox-hunting in, 79-83 ; quail 

 in, 102; sheep-washing in, 220-3; 

 shoreland, in autumn, 288; downs, 

 wild life on, 293-309 ; sea trout 

 in, 307 



Swallow, chimney, in South Africa, 



155 



Swift, the, in South Africa, 155 

 Swinhoe, on sand-grouse, 259 

 Syrrhaptes, genus, 263 ; paradoxus, 



263 ; tibetanus, 263 



Table Bay, 167 



Tegetmeier, Mr., and sand-grouse, 

 260 



Tenant farmer, a, 34-40; his 

 ancestors, 35; his passion for 

 hunting, 35 ; recollections of, 

 35-6, 39 ; on horseback, 36 ; farm- 

 ing methods of, 37 ; and '34 port, 

 37 ; fancy for walnuts and cow- 

 slip wine, 37 ; and home-brewed 

 ale, 38 ; excursions and pleasures 

 of, 38-9 ; and coursing, 39 ; and 

 the ballot, 40 ; his well-spent life, 

 40 



Tern : black, 8, 291-2 ; Caspian, 

 163 ; common, 163 ; sandwich, 

 163 ; whiskered, 163 ; white- 

 winged black, 163 



Terriers : and otter-hounds, 254 ; 

 for hunting otter, 255 ; and part- 

 ridge, 277 



Thick-knee (see Stone-curlew) 



Tian Shian mountains and snipe, 



3i8 



Towering, in partridge, 279 

 Trojan, a celebrated foxhound, 



129 

 Trout-fishing : in co. Mayo, 96- 



100 ; in Norway, 99 

 Turnstone, the, 159, 286, 291, 304 

 Turtle dove, 158 



Ural Mountains and River, 263 



Wagtail, blue-headed yellow, 157 

 Wainfleet decoy, 20 

 Wales, otter-hunting in, 249-51 

 Walsingham, Lord, and reintroduc- 

 tion of great bustard, 114-15; 320 

 Warblers, 157 ; and the downs, 297 

 Wartling Hill, 223 

 Warwickshire hounds, the, 128-30, 



I37 J 39; North, 129, 137 

 Warde, John, 128, 204 

 Water-rail, 30 ; in South Africa, 162 

 Watson, Mr. John, 121 

 Weston, John (see Tenant farmer) 

 Westminster, Duke of, and snipe- 

 shooting, 320 



Westward Ho, sea fishing at, 151 

 Wharfedale otter-hounds, 250 

 Wheatears, and Wild Birds' Pro- 

 tection Acts, 23-4; in South 

 Africa, 157 ; by seashore, 284 ; 

 the schaap-wachter, 284 ; on the 

 downs, 294 ; method of snaring, 

 295 ; numbers captured, 295 ; 

 price of, 295 ; and Squire Wilson, 

 296 ; imitativeness of, 296 

 Whimbrel, in South Africa, 161, 286 

 Whinchat, on the downs, 296-7 

 White, Gilbert, and partridge- 

 shooting, 280 



Whitelock, and cormorants, 170 

 White trout (see Sea trout) 

 Wild Birds' Protection Acts, 23, 26 ; 



and wheatears, 296 

 Wild flowers (see Flowers) 

 Wild Sports of the Highlands, 248 

 Wild Sports of the West, 189 

 William the Conqueror, 4, 219 

 William Rufus, legend concerning 



death of, 4 

 Willoughby de Broke, Lord, 121, 



128-9 



Willow-wren, 157 

 Willughby, and cormorant, 170-1 

 Wilson, Squire, and wheatears, 296 

 Windmill Hill, 2, 5 

 Windsor, stag-hunt at, 215-16 

 Wing, Sir Edmund, 173, 175; at 

 breakfast, 178; and tracking 



330 



