INDEX. 
443 
Geese sacred among the ancients, 352 
sagacity and watchfulness of, 
352 
instances of attachment in, 352 
various anecdotes of, 352 
Bernacle, or Tree, 362 
Gigantic Crane, or Hurgila, 324 
Gizzard, functions of the, 48, 49 
Goat-Sucker, bill of the, 31 
mouth of the, 241, 259 
South American, 261 
Goldfinches, anecdote of, 217 
sagacity of, 218 
sociability of, 219 
age attained by, 221 
Grackles, 175, 199 
Grebe, 419 
crested, shot at Adlington, 
Cheshire, 421 
Guillemots, 422, 424 
Gulls, 498 
feeding on herrings, 401 
anecdote of a pair, 402' 
• Laughing,their breeding-place 
in Norfolk, 406 
Gullet, 45 
Hare and Hawk, contest between, 
136 
Hawk tribe, 93, 121 
Hawking, 125 
Hawks rearing Chickens, 142 
— why respected by Turks, 143^ 
Hen kills mice, 285 
swimming, 285 
Herons taken by Hawking, 129 
. assemblage of, 194 
legs allure fish, 316 
feathers, 317 
— voracity of, 317 
Honey-Buzzard feeds on wasps, 140 
Hoopoe, 262, 264 
Hornbills, bills of, 32 
general character, 174 
Homed Screamer, Palamadea cor- 
nuta, 312 
Hospital for Cranes and Storks, 320 
Humming-Birds, 262, 266 
Hurgila, or Gigantic Crane, 324 
Ibis, Sacred, 346 
Imitative power of birds, 57 
Injuries from Crows and Books, 196 
■ and benefits from small birds , 
229 
Insects, quantity devoured by Swal- 
lows, 248 
Kooks and Crows destructive 
to, 189 
frost favourable to, 200 
Instinct nearly allied to reason, in- 
stance in Ducks, 381 
Jabiru, 326 
Jacamars, 269 
Jacana walks on water-plants, 312 
Jackdaws, 203 
Jays, partial migration of, 83 
killed by Hawks, 137 
general character, 207 
Kingfisher, 265 
King Penguin, 431 
Kites once common in London, 12 7 
Land-birds found far at sea, 77 
Language of birds, 61 
Lapwing, food of the, 336 
Larks, 232 
Latirostres, flat-beaked, 329 
Laughing Gull, account of, 406 
Leg-bones, 38 
Legs of Herons allure fish, 316 
Levirostral, light-billed, 275 
Light on American Bittern’s breast, 
317 
Light-houses a decoy for birds, 91, 
334 
Linnets’ affection for their young, 228 
Longipennes, 396 
Magpies, 208, 324 
— sagacity of, 208 
nurse young Kavens, 209 
Manakins, 232 
Mate, birds choose new ones when the 
old ones die, 180, 252 
Meetings of Crows and other birds, 
192, 322 
Mice killed by a Hen, 285 
Migration of Cuckoos, 270 
Nightingales, 238 
Swallows, 247 
— Storks and Cranes, 318 
