CONTENTS. 



Bush. — Going "a-birding." — The "Stanniel" or Kestrel. — Origin of the 

 Two Names. — The "Musket" or Sparrow-Hawk. — Hawk and Hern- 

 shaw. — Prices of Hawks. — Hawk's Furniture. — Hawk's Meat. — Fal- 

 coner's Wages. — Sundries 49 



CHAPTER III. 



THE OWL AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. 



"The Bird of Juno." — "The Favourite of Minerva." — "The Bird of Wis- 

 dom." — Sacred to Proserpine. — Use in Medicine. — The Bird of Ill- 

 Omen. — Its Appearance by Day. — Its Habits misunderstood. — Its Utility 

 to the Farmer. — A Curious Tradition. — Its Note or Cry. — An Owl 

 Robbing Nests. — Evidence not conclusive. — Its Retiring Habits. — Its 

 " Five Wits."— Its Fame in Song. — The Owl's Good Night 83 



CHAPTER IV. 



THE CROWS AND THEIR RELATIONS. 



The Raven : a Bird of 111 Omen. — Its Supposed Prophetic Power. — Its Deep 

 and Solemn Voice. — The Raven's Croak foreboding Death. — The 

 " Night-Raven " and " Night-Crow." — The Raven's Presence on Battle- 

 fields. — Its alleged Desertion of its Young. — The Rook and Crow. — 

 The Crow-Keeper, and "Scare-Crow." — The Chough. — Russet-pated 

 Choughs. — The Daw, Magpie, and Jay . gg 



CHAPTER V. 



THE BIRDS OF SONG. 



The Nightingale.— " Lamenting Philomel." — Singing against a Thorn. 



—Erroneously supposed to Sing only by Night. — "Recording." 



The Lark.— "The Herald of the Morn."— Singing at Heaven's Gate. 

 —Song of the Lark.— Soaring and Singing.— Changing Eyes with Toad. 

 —Lark-Catching. — The Common Bunting. — "The Throstle, with his 

 Note so True."— Imitation of his Song.— The Ouzel-Cock.— The Robin- 

 Redbreast, or Ruddock. — Covering the Dead with Leaves. — "Redbreast 

 Teacher." — "The Wren with Little Quill." — Its Loud Song.— The Spar- 

 row. — "Philip Sparrow."— Providence in the Fall of a Sparrow. The 



Hedge-Sparrow and Cuckoo.— "The Cuckoo's Bird." — " Ungentle Gull." 

 — " The Plain Song Cuckoo Gray."— The Song of the Cuckoo.— Cuckoo 

 Songs.— The Wagtail, or Dishwasher. —Bird-catching.— Springes.— Gins. 

 — Bat-fowling. — Its Two Significations. — Bird-Lime, Bird-Bolts, and 

 Birding-Pieces . 



