INDEX. 



Autumn, a wet, the woodlands in, 170 

 et seq. 



Badger, his food, 139, 189, 190 — 

 killed on railway-tracks, 140 — his 

 haunts, 186, 187 — the uses of his 

 fur, 188. 



Badgers, a colony of, destroyed, 228. 



Bees attracted by scent, 38. 



Bird-music, 77. 



Bird-shooter, the Continental, his me- 

 thods, 119. 



Birds, rare, the protection of, 146, 

 147. 



Black-game, disappearance of, 85 — a 

 playing-place of, 86 — their former 

 haunts, 87 et seq. — their nests, eggs, 

 &c. , 87, 88 — difficult to distinguish, 

 90 — killed by the hen-harrier, 92 — 

 attempted conservation of, 97. 



Bog-meadows, draining of, in Surrey, 



35- 

 Booth, E. T., his collection of British 



birds, 104. 

 Bustards, the, 157, 158. 



Capercailzie, cause of the prejudice 

 against, 126 — the crime alleged 

 against, ib., 127 — his powerful 

 build, 128, 129 — the date of his 

 disappearance from Scotland, 129, 

 130 — the female, nest, &c, 131 — 

 netting him in Scandinavia, 132 — 

 his natural foes, ib. — importations 

 of, in a frozen state, 133 — sketch of, 

 in a Scandinavian forest, 134. 



Carp, fishing for, 80 — how they feed, 



81. 

 Carrion-crow, prejudices against, 154 



— a forsaken nesting - place, 155, 



156. 

 Cat, wild, his haunts, 203, 204 — 



description of, 204 — in the woods, 



205 — taming it, 206 — protected in 



Scotland, ib. 

 Cats, domestic, run wild, 75, 205 — 



how to distinguish them from the 



true wild cat, 75. 

 Cloud masses, description of, 1. 

 Commoners and landowners, 95 et seq. 

 Coots, a mere tenanted by, 161 — 



their habits and appearance, 162, 



163 — their nests, 165. 

 Corn crops, little damaged by hares 



and rabbits, 138 — mischief done by 



the skylark in, 139. 

 Crossbow, how it was recently used, 



97-99- 



Cuckoo, a curious notion regard- 

 ing, 15 — its usefulness, 31 — the 

 young in its foster-parents' nest, 32 

 — description and character of, ib., 

 33 — dispirited by wet weather, 174. 



Cuckoo-pints, 8. 



Deer-forests, usefulness of the marten 



in, 192. 

 Dotterel, 102. 



Eagle, the golden, 193. 



Farmyard, at dinner-time, 17 et seq. 







