INDEX 



Compiled by Mrs. Hubbard 



" Age of Fools," story of the, 8 

 Agriculture, decay of, in Glou- 

 cestershire, 164 

 Arthur, King, legend concerning, 



113 

 Asses, wild, their braying, 87 

 Axe, daws in the valley of the, 

 66 ; its source, 179, and course, 

 180 



Bath, description of, 75 ; bird life 

 in, 76 



Battersea Park, crows in, 272 



Bee, stingless, of La Plata, its 

 mode of attack, 48 



Beech leaves, 217 



Birds, stuffed, impression left by, 

 1-8 ; at their best, 4, 14, 247 ; 

 twofold mental vision of, 17 ; 

 mental reproduction of voices 

 of, 20, 31 ; durability of images 

 of, 29-35 ; their relations with 

 man, 42, 63-59, and with other 

 mammals, 43, 53 ; human sug- 

 gestion in voices of, 127-139 ; 

 their notes not imitable in 

 human speech, 170 ; rare, their 

 gradual extirpation, 243, 252 ; 

 ''British-killed" specimens, 243, 

 268 



"Bishop's Jacks," the, at Wells, 



Blackbird, quality of voice of, 129 



Blackcap, its song, 101, 102 



Blue, human associations of the 

 colour, 143 



Booth Collection, the, at Brighton, 

 3 



Brean Down, its singular appear- 

 ance, 180 ; a breeding-place for 

 sheldrake, 187 



Brissot and the Merrimac River, 

 39 



Broadway, raven superstition at, 

 114 



Burns, Robert, his " Address to a 

 Wood-Lark," 132 



Burroughs, John, on the song of 

 the willow wren, 99 ; his search 

 for the nightingale, 236 



Carew, Thomas, his conceit as to 



roses, 151 

 Cathedral daws at Wells, 69 

 Cattle, services of birds towards, 



44-47 

 Children, their imitative cries, 168 

 Clapham Junction, sand-martins 



near, 285 

 Clissold Park, swallows in, 285 

 Collections of birds, small educa- 

 tional value of, 7; their future 

 fate, 264 

 Collectors, destruction of Dart- 

 ford warblers by, 238, 246, 249 ; 

 as law-breakers, 251, 252 



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