INDEX 



aos 



July, the woodland in, 167 

 Juniper on the Sussex downs, 

 234; variety in the growth of, 

 235, 289 ; its changeful beauty, 

 236 



Keats, his feeling for nature, 166 



Kestrels buffeting gulls on Seaf ord 

 Head, 89 ; hawking for grass- 

 hoppers, 90 



Kingfisher fishing in the sea, 18 



Kingly Bottom or Vale, yew grove 

 at, 226, 289 



Kingston Hill, 2 ; a shepherd of, 

 135 



Kite, disappearance of, from Sus- 

 sex, 81 



Kittiwake, disappearance of, from 

 Sussex, 81 



Lamb, an owl-faced, 86 ; a hare- 

 furred, 87 ; the, and the Salva- 

 tion Array, 114-117 



Lamb, Charles, iiis distaste for 

 the sea, 27 



Lavant, bat-lore at, 283 



Lewes, swifts at, 199 



Life and heat, relation between, 

 52 



" Lily-bind," 33 



Ling on the downs, 49 



Linnet, its music and colour in 

 freedom, 154 ; in autumn, 239 



Lizard, the common, on the 

 downs, 94; in presence of a 

 snake, 95 



Lower, Mark Antony, on Sussex 

 bird-life, 82 ; his Worthies of 

 Sussex, 134 ; nightingale killing 

 recorded by, 287 



Magpie and domestic pigeon, 



222 ; thieving by a, 224 

 Magpies at play, 220, 223 

 Mai<l, a Sussex, 119 



Maritime district, the, 238 ; a 

 winter home for birds, 240; 

 herons in the, 242 



Market Cross at Chichester, 263 



Martins' nests at Alfriston, 186 



Meadow-pipit breeding on the 

 downs, 91 ; on the downs in 

 autumn, 206 



Midhurst, visit to, 266 ; decline 

 of publicans in, 268 



Milkwort, Gerarde's description 

 of, 54 ; its varying colours, 55 



Missel- thrush, the, a summei- 

 rover, 91 ; its abundance on 

 the downs, 226 ; its gluttony, 

 228 ; its gallant temper, 249 ; 

 attack by, on perching spaiTow- 

 hawk, 250 ; intolerance of other 

 bird-voices, 251 ; quality of 

 song, 252, 281 



Moles, presence of, on the downs 

 far from water, 77 ; an excit- 

 able specimen, 79 ; their death 

 from drought on the downs, 

 80 



Montagu's harrier, disappear- 

 ance of, from Sussex, 81 



Morpho butterfly, varying blue 

 of, 65 



Mount Black-Cap, flock of turtle- 

 doves at, 91 



Mount Caburn, by WUliam Hay, 

 quoted, 215 



Mount Harry, varied company of 

 birds on, 176 ; memories relat- 

 ing to, 177 



Mud at Chichester, 270 



Music, the art of, 142 ; in nature, 

 143 ; of the human voice, 144 



Myers, Mr. F. W. H., on pre- 

 natal suggestion, 87 



Names, rustic difficulties as to, 



283 

 Nest, mother swift driven to the, 



by her mate, 201 



