HHastings, daws at,62Henley, W. E. on bird poems,286Herodotus, on flying feathers and snow,254Honey buzzard, destruction of the,228,236Humming-bird, defending its nest,42IImpressions, emotion a condition of their permanence,6,15;sound,18;durability of,26JJackdaws,seeDawsJays, spring assemblies,94-100;mimicry,95;variability of song,97;their call,99;mode of flight,99;British bird of Paradise,100Jefferies, Richard, on yellow flowers,148KKearton, Mr Richard, suggestion for the protection of rare birds by,240Kennedy, Clark, on the furze wren in Berkshire,225King Arthur, legend of,165Kingfishers, alive and dead,12LLand's End, the,155La Plata and Patagonia, images of birds of,26Lapwing, the spur-winged, and sheep,44Leslie'sRiverside Letters,124Letters of Rusticus,226Linnets, a concert of,188Livett, Dr, a raven story told by,171Long-tailed tit at its best,16Lynton, wood wren at,97MMacgillivray, on the redbreast,48Magellanic geese.SeeGeeseMagpie, manner of flight of,284Mammals, relations of birds with,38Man, from the birds' point of view,37;the robin's pleasure in his company,48Maxwell, Sir Herbert, on the "cursed collector,"161Medum, representation of geese at,203Memory of things seen,18;of things heard,18Montagu'sDictionary of Birds, account of the jay in,95Mivart, St George, on dead birds,270NNaturalist, the old and new,294Nature, modern sense of the unity of,294Newman on the Dartford warbler,226Nightingale, quality of its voice,128Nothura maculosa, the "partridge" of Argentina,252OOssian's address to the sun,148Owl, wood, hooting of the,178;superstitions regarding the,181;a pet,184Owls, in a village,173PParrot, caged and free,249;the St Vincent,250,254;history of a double-fronted amazon,256;a lost language talked by a,258;longevity of the,261;tales and legends of the,264-268Partridges and rabbits,45Patti, Carlota, bird-like voice of,128Peregrine falcon, fight with raven,167Peterborough, the great Lord, and a canary,263Pheasant and chicks,52Pigeon family, the, original notes of,88Pigs in the New Forest,81QQuixote, Don, as to tradition of King Arthur,165RRabbits, how regarded by partridges,45Ravens, in Somerset,160;aëreal feat of,161;decrease and disappearance of,169-170;superstitious fear of killing,165;last,170;tapping at lighted windows,170Raven tree, a,169Red, in flowers, human associations of,141-145Redbreast, tameness of the,48Reed warbler, the, in Somerset,190-191Ruskin, "word painting,"72;on cathedral daws,73;on the distinction of beauty,238SSaintbury, village of,176;owl superstitions at,180St Vincent parrot,250;anecdote of,254Savernake Forest, early spring in,76;daws in,90;jays in,94Sea-birds, protection of,240,242Seebohm, on the wood wren,105;on the willow wren,117;on jay assemblies,95Selborne, a first sight of,284;changes in its bird population,293Sheep, tended by birds,39;quarrel of a spur-winged lapwing with,44Sheldrake in Somerset,191;tame and wild,193;appearance when flying,193;singular breeding habits,194-195Sigerson, Miss Dora (Mrs Shorter) in "Flight of the Wild Geese,"213Skylark, song,116Somerset, daws in,59;ravens in,160;red warbler in,190Sound-images, their durability,18,21Spencer, Herbert, on social animals,47;on the origin of music,131Starlings, their services to cattle,39;abundance at Bath of,71Summer Studies of Birds and Books,159Sunlight, effects on plumage of birds,3,12Swallows, how man is regarded by,49-53,55;alarmed by a grey hat,57;quality of the voice of,125;Gilbert White on hybernation of,291Swifts, unconcern of in man's presence,51;at Selborne,287TTennyson, on the speedwell,149Throstle, loudness of its song,118Tits, blue, at Bath,71;long-tailed, seen at their best,16Tree-pipit, quality of voice of,126UUpland geese.SeeGeese.VVisitants, rare annual slaughter of,237WWagtail, pied, attending cows in the pasture ... quality of voice of,125Wallace, Alfred Russel, Bird of Paradise assemblies described by,100Wells, daws at the cathedral,60;a wood wren at,102White, Gilbert, wood wren's song, described by,106;willow wren's song described by,122;associations with, at Selborne,288;an imaginary conversation with,291Whiteness, in flowers,146;magnifying effect of,193Willersey, owls at,173;a pet wood owl at,184Willow wren, Burroughs on the song of the,101;Gilbert White's description of its song,122;Warde Fowler's description of its song,121,122;abundance and wide distribution of,117Willoughby, Father of British Ornithology, willow wren described by,118Wood lark, Burns' address to,127Wood owl.SeeOwls.Wood pigeon, song of,85;human quality in voice of,87-90Wood wren, at Wells,102;difficulty in seeing,103;inquisitiveness,104;secret of its charm,114Wookey Hole, source of the Somerset Axe,59Wordsworth, bird voices preferred by,107YYear with the Birds, A,122Yellow, in flowers,146Yellow-hammer, singing in the rain,285PRINTED BYTURNBULL AND SPEARS,EDINBURGHTranscriber's NotesBeyond the list of corrections detailed below, a number of minor corrections may have been applied where indentation, commas, or periods were either 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Transcriber's NotesBeyond the list of corrections detailed below, a number of minor corrections may have been applied where indentation, commas, or periods were either missing or existed where other similar usage (for example, first paragraph in the Chapter and index listings) does not have it.Typographical CorrectionsPageCorrection8Barragan → Barragán14procesess → processes19has becomes → has become34scare → score48een → even49comany → company89accompnay → accompany112shubbery → shrubbery150beauitful → beautiful151adnire → admire152destested → detested161pasages → passages175intervvals → intervals203if → of214yon → you226vey → very232torquoise → turquoise233curosity → curiosity246offender's → offenders252tinamu → tinamou (twice on this page)253tinamu → tinamou256dosing → dozing267familes → families303ascociations → associations
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Beyond the list of corrections detailed below, a number of minor corrections may have been applied where indentation, commas, or periods were either missing or existed where other similar usage (for example, first paragraph in the Chapter and index listings) does not have it.
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