A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, V, W, Y.
Among the Osiers, boyish sport, 202-5
Artifices of birds, 63
Birds:
of the seasons, 13, 14
calendar of, 47
of the months, 54
little noticed, 101
of the sea, 158
flight of coloured, 162
in the poets (see Poets)
Bird-pests, 104, 105
Bird-voices, expressiveness of, 113
song of caged birds, 33, 34
Bittern, its folk-names, 48
Black-backed gull (see Gull)
Blackbird, 30
curious folk-belief about, 31
what becomes of its surplus numbers, 31
its nest, 32
its “piping,” 33, 34-37
Blackcap, 101
its song mistaken for the nightingale’s, 102
its eggs and nest, 117, 118
“Blasquet chickens,” 177
Boyish sport among the osiers, 202-205
British Museum, curious notions as to what it wants, 201, 202
Caged Birds Singing, 33, 34
Calendar of birds, 47
Cat concerts, 35
Colour in flights of birds, 162
Coot, 50
Corn-crake, 113
its cry, 114, 117
Cuckoo, 99
its foster-parents, 100
food and song, 101
Curlew, folk-lore of, 49
Cushat (see Wood-pigeon)
Dabchicks, 205
“Davy Jones’s locker,” 173, 174
Dotterel, 64
its note, 67
Eagle, 71, 72
in poetry, 153
its flight, 154
(see Erne)
Egg-gathering at Flamborough, 167
Eider-duck, 182
Erne, 155
its haunts, 156
its young, 157, 158
its raids on young birds, 165
raids on puffins and rabbits, 170
and black-backed gull, 183
and skua, 184
Evening sounds, 67, 114, 117
Falcon, 72, 75, 76
a falconry, 75
the Laggar-falcon, 71
Fern-owl, its song, 67
its flight, 68, 69
Fieldfares, 54
Finches, 50
the goldfinch a pest in New Zealand, 104
Flamingoes, 162
Flitter-mouse, 117
Flycatchers, 191
Gamekeepers, their stupidity, 144
Garden-warbler, 101, 102
Goatsucker (see Fern-Owl)
Goldfinch a pest in New Zealand, 104
Grasshopper warbler, 119
Great Tit (see Tit)
Grouse, 70
Guillemots, 161, 162
their haunts and young, 163
their eggs, 164
the raids on their young, 165-167
Gull, the Black-backed, 178
its habits and resorts, 181-183
GÜnther, Dr., on the Great Tit of Rowfant, 128, 129
Halcyon (see Kingfisher)
Hawks, chased by swallows, 40
British, 75
Heron, 48, 143
its persecution by gamekeepers, 144
its effect in landscape, 147
its post of observation, 148
a heronry at breeding-time, 149
in hawking days, 150
“Hewel,” the (Woodpecker), 49
Insects, destruction of, by swallow, 39
Jay, 138
Kestrel, 139
its destruction of mice, 140-143
Kingfisher, its effect in the landscape, 147
its haunts and habits, 189-192
it colouring, nest and eggs, 193, 194
the mystery of the halcyon, 195
folk-beliefs, 196
hardships in winter, 196
its association with the picturesque, 199, 200
the method of feeding its young, 200, 201
£100 for its nest, 201, 202
Laggar-Falcon, 71
Lark: the skylark, 69
its song, 103, 104
a pest in New Zealand, 104
its late rising and regular song, 214, 215
the woodlark, its song, 102
Lighthouses and migrants, 20, 21
Lion’s cries, 34-37
Magpie, 136-138
Mavis (see Thrush)
Merle (see Blackbird)
Migration and overcrowding, 16
flights of migrants, 20, 21
mystery of migration, 21-26
mortality among migrants, 25
what makes “home” for a bird, 56-58
Mice, destruction of, by kestrel, 140
“Molly-hawks,” 184, 185
Months, birds of the, 54
Moorhen, 199, 206, 207
its young, 208
haunts and nest, 209
a rat adventure, 210, 211
“Mother Carey’s chickens,” 173
Night, bird-music in summer, 213, 214
Nightingale, migration of, 19, 20
song of, 33
in spring, 56
the blackcap’s similarity of song, 102
Nightjar (see Fern-Owl)
Nuthatch, 123, 124
its nest-hole, 125
Ossifrage, the, in India, 154
Owl, 133
its utility, 134
its ill-names, 135
the burrowing owl, 170
(see Fern-Owl)
Ox-eye (see Tit)
Parrots, 162
Partridges, 76-79
Peregrine (see Falcon)
Pests, birds which have become, 104, 105
Petrel, 173
in folklore, 174
excellent eating, 177
mystery of its nesting, 177
its burrows, 178
Pheasant, 76-80
Poets, the, and the birds:
Barry Cornwall, the Petrel, 173, 178
the Sparrow, 109
Beattie, the Ringdove, 118
Bloomfield, the Robin and Wren, 83
Burns, the Mavis, 14
the Moorcock, 70
the Corn-crake, 113
Byron, the Partridge and Pheasant, 76
Clare, the Partridge, 47
the Moorhen, 209
Cowper, the Sparrow, 105
Cunningham, the Magpie, 136
Drayton, the Blackbird (“woosell,”) 33
the Bittern, 48
the Dotterel, 64
the Kingfisher, 189
the Coot, 206
Faber, the Sea-fowl, 167
the Kingfisher, 192
the Coot, 206
Grahame, the Merle, 30
the Eagle, 153
the Grouse, 70
Hood, the Blackbird, 31
Hurdis, the Rook, 55
Ingelow, Jean, the Finch, 70
Keats, the Thrush, 14
the Swallow, 38
the Finch, 59
Leyden, the Heron, 143
the Woodlark, 103
Mackay, the Gulls, 162
Mallet, on Migration, 21
the Sea-fowl, 169
Marvel, the Hewel (woodpecker), 50
the Heron, 150
Montgomery, the Nuthatch, 123
the Sea-eagle, 170
Pope, the Magpie, 136
Prior, the Sparrow, 106
the Turtle-dove, 120
Scott, the Blackbird, 30
Shakespeare, the Throstle, 14
Shelley, the Ringdove, 59
the Skylark, 103-4
the Owl (Aziola), 133
the Eagle, 190
Shenstone, the Rook, 93
Somerville, the Heron, 143
Southey, the Nuthatch, 123
Spenser, the Eagle, 153
Tennyson, the Thrush, 14
Thomson, the Rook, 55
the Woodlark, 102
White, Gilbert, the Rook, 55
Wordsworth, the Bittern and Woodcock, 83
the Cuckoo, 99
Prairie-dog, 170
Ptarmigan, 71
Puffin, 167
haunts and habits, 168, 169
its nest-hole, 170
Rabbit, and its enemy the erne, 170
Rat and blackbird’s nest, 32
Reed-warbler, 211-213
Ring-dove (see Wood-pigeon)
Robin, and wren, 86, 89
early song of, 215
Rook, 55
and crow, 93
value to the farmer, 94-96
its habits, 97
its young, 98
Rowfant, the great tit of, 128, 129
Sambhur-stag, 148
St. Kilda and its puffins, 167, 168
Sea-eagle (see Erne)
Seabirds, haunts of, 158
Seasons, birds of the, 13, 14
Sedge-warbler, 211-213
Shrikes, 191
Skua, 184-5
Skylark (see Lark)
Snails, 27
Song of caged birds, 33
meaning of song, 34, 35
song of warriors and savages, 37
expressiveness of bird-voices, 113
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