446 



INDEX. 



Nightingale, Pliny s beautiful 

 description of its song, vol. 

 i. page 499 



Norway rat, or brown, i. 142 



Nutcracker, i. 298 



Nuthatch, i. 336 



Oppians description of the bea- 

 gle, i. 74 

 Oriole, i. 303 

 Orpheus, his soul said to have 

 transmigrated into the body 

 of a swan, ii. 224 ' ,. . 

 Osprey, i. 214 

 Otter, i. 117 



considered as a fish by 

 the Carthusians, i. 

 119 

 sea, of Sir R. Sih- 

 hald, i. 120 

 Ovid, his account of the bat, 

 i. 185 



of the hoo- 

 poe, i. 

 344 

 Ouzel, ring, or rock, i. 415 

 water, i. 398 

 rose colored, i, 413 

 Penrith, i. 399 

 Owl, eagle, i. 234 



long-eared, i. 258 

 short-eared, i. 260 

 white, i. 263 

 brown, ic 268 



Owl, tawny, vol. i. page 260 



little, i. 270 

 Ox, i. 21 

 Oystercatcher, ii. 112 



Painter, his merit founded on' 

 his knowledge of nature^ 

 Preface 

 Pardalis of Aristotle, ii. 99 

 Parks, numerous in England, 



i. 52 

 Partridge, i. 363 



white, or white 

 ; grous, i. 359 



Pasturage, richness of the Bri- 

 tish and Irish, i. 22 

 Peacock, an Indian bird, i. 



369 

 Penguin, the great auk, ii. 



146 

 Penhehogydd, or chief falconer 



of the JVelsh court, i. 253 

 Petrel, ir. 203 



its faculty of spout- 

 ing oil, ii. 204 

 stormy, ii. 208 

 Pettychaps, greater, i. 506 



lesser, i. 508 

 Pewit, or Lapwing, ii. 66 



gull, its former value,, 

 ii. 189 

 Phalarope, grey, ii. 123 

 red, ii. 125 



