442 
INDEX. 
Coots, nest of, 309 
Cormorants, habits of, 389 
— — — — trained as fishing-birds 
by the Chinese, 388 
— - weight of, 390 
where differing from the 
Frigate-Bird, 393 
Corn-Crake, 313 
■ found dormant, 241 
Cotinga, 173 
Courage of Swallows, 251 
Cranes, 315 
— anecdote of a lame, 332 
Crocodile, birds feed in mouth of, 337 
Cross-Bill, beak described, 28 
• peculiarities of the, 195 
Crows, 189 
— harassing the Gulls at the 
South Stack, 433 
Cuckoos, 269 
Golden, 25 
— — — fed by a Thrush, 171 
Cultrirostral, cutting-billed birds, 315 
Cuneirostral, wedge-billed birds, 269 
Dangerous instinct of Herons and 
Bitterns in darting at the eye, 327 
Dardanelles, incessant flight of a 
species of Petrel on the, 81 
Dates of the arrival and departure 
of certain birds, 90 
Desertion of young, instances of, 180, 
424 
Desperate leap of a Bird-catcher, 438 
Digestive organs, 42 
Divers, 421 
Dodo, 304 
Dormancy of birds considered, 242 
Ducks’ bills described, 29 
occasional long flights of, 7 6 
Chinese management of, 368 
- — — affection of, 371 
nest of Wild, 370 
■ Eider, how to obtain the 
down, 373 
Indian mode of catching, 374 
Shooters, adventures of, 375 
Mexican, 379 
— decoy, 380 
cunning in eluding pursuers, 
381 
Dunlin, nest and eggs, 335 
Eagles, various particulars respecting 
them, 93 
carrying off children, 96 
Egg of the Cuckoo, why laid in small 
birds’ nests, 272 
Eggs of Nightingales carried, 341 
Emu, 302 
Eye, insects flying in the, 248 
Herons and Bitterns dangerous 
to the, 327 
Falcon, Iceland, valuable, 124 
Falconry, 125 
attempted revival in Eng- 
land, 128 
Familiarity of Crows, anecdote of, 191 
Fasting powers of birds, 51 
Fatal event to a family of Sea- 
fowlers, 439 
Feathers of Eagles prized, 111 
rapid growth of, 225 
Feats of Bird-catchers, 436 
Feeding, Thrush’s mode of, 168 
Feeding-box for Pheasants, 287 
Fieldfare, 167 
Finches, family of, 217 
Flamingo, or Phcenicopterus, 330 
singularity of its bill, 330 
— numerous on the coast of 
Africa, 332 
Flight, difficulties connected with, 3 
of birds, 70, 75 
Fly-catchers, 171 
Food consumed by small birds, 230 
Fowl, singular contents of the 
stomach of a, 50 
Frigate-Bird lives almost always on 
the wing, 79 
Frost favourable to insects, 200 
Frozen, birds occasionally, 139 
Fulmars, 416 
Gallinaceous, Poultry tribe, 276 
Gallinula, Water Hen, 305 
Gannet, 53 
— use of its horny mask, 53 
mode of catching, 53 
• nests, 394 
Gastric juice, 46 
Geese, rearing of, profitable, 350 
management of them in Lin- 
colnshire, 350 
