Herring-gull, 324
_Hierofalco candicans_, 217
---- _gyrfalco_, 217
---- _islandicus_, 217
_Hirundo rustica_, 118
Hobby, 210
Honey buzzard, 217
Hooded crow, 167
---- merganser, 246
Hoodie, 167
Hoopoe, 190
House-martin, 121
House-sparrow, 132
_Hydrochelidon nigra_, 323
_Hypolaïs icterina_, 79
Ibis, glossy, 226
Iceland falcon, 217
---- gull, 329
Icterine warbler, 79
Ivory gull, 329
_Iÿnx torquilla_, 186
Jack-curlew, 313
Jackdaw, 163
Jack-snipe, 300
Jay, 158
Kentish plover, 287
Kestrel, 212
---- lesser, 217
Killdeer plover, 288
King eider, 246
Kingfisher, 188
---- belted, 189
Kite, 207
---- black, 216
Kittiwake, 323
Knot, 304
Lag-goose, grey, 227
_Lagopus mutus_, 270
---- _scoticus_, 272
Landrail, 278
_Lanius collurio_, 114
---- _excubitor_, 116
---- _major_, 116
---- _minor_, 116
---- _pomeranus_, 116
Lapland bunting, 154
Lapwing, 290
Lark, crested, 178
---- sky, 174
---- white-winged, 178
---- wood, 176
_Larus argentatus_, 324
---- _canus_, 326
---- _fuscus_, 325
---- _glaucus_, 329
---- _ichthyaëtus_, 330
---- _leucopterus_, 329
---- _marinus_, 327
---- _minutus_, 330
---- _ridibundus_, 328
Laughing gull, 329
Leach’s petrel, 335
Lesser black-backed gull, 325
---- golden plover, 286
---- grey shrike, 116
---- kestrel, 217
---- redpoll, 139
---- ringed plover, 288
---- spotted woodpecker, 183
Lesser tern, 320
---- whitethroat, 66
_Ligurinus chloris_, 128
_Limnocryptes galliluna_, 300
_Limosa melanura_, 316
Linnet, 138
---- mountain, 141
_Linota cannabina_, 138
---- _flavirostris_, 141
---- _hornemanni_, 140
---- _linaria_, 140
---- _rufescens_, 139
Little auk, 351
---- bittern, 226
---- bunting, 154
---- bustard, 281
---- crake, 278
---- egret, 226
---- grebe, 344
---- gull, 330
---- owl, 199
---- stint, 302
---- tern, 320
_Locustella luscinioïdes_, 84
---- _nævia_, 82
_Lomvia bruennichi_, 351
---- _troile_, 347
Long-eared owl, 196
Long-tailed duck, 250
---- titmouse, 90
Loon, 340
_Loxia bifasciata_, 145
---- _curvirostra_, 144
---- _leucoptera_, 145
---- _pittyopsittacus_, 145
_Machetes pugnax_, 306
Macqueen’s bustard, 281
Magpie, 160
Mallard, 239
Manx shearwater, 336
_Mareca americana_, 238
---- _penelope_, 237
_Margulus alle_, 351
Marsh-harrier, 216
Marsh-hen, 280
Marsh-titmouse, 96
Marsh warbler, 82
Martin, 121
---- house, 121
---- sand, 122
May bird, 313
Meadow-pipit, 108
Mealy redpoll, 140
_Melanocorypha sibirica_, 178
_Melizophilus undatus_, 70
Merganser, hooded, 246
---- red-breasted, 256
_Mergus albellus_, 258
---- _cucullatus_, 246
---- _merganser_, 255
---- _serrator_, 256
Merlin, 211
_Merops apiaster_, 190
_Milvus ictinus_, 207
---- _nigrans_, 216
Missel-thrush, 39
Montagu’s harrier, 201
_Monticola saxatilis_, 52
Moor buzzard, 216
Moorhen, 279
Moor-lamb, 299
_Motacilla alba_, 108
---- _flava_, 108
---- _lugubris_, 104
---- _melanope_, 105
---- _rayii_, 107
Mother Carey’s chicken, 334
Mountain-blackbird, 50
Mountain-finch, 137
Mountain-linnet, 141
_Muscicapa atricapilla_, 118
---- _grisola_, 116
---- _parva_, 118
Mute swan, 233
Needle-tailed swift, 179
_Neophron percnopterus_, 216
Night-churn, 181
Night heron, 226
Nightingale, 62
Nightjar, 179
---- Egyptian, 181
Noddy, 323
Norfolk plover, 282
North American killdeer-plover, 288
_Nucifraga caryocatactes_, 174
_Numenius arquata_, 314
---- _phæopus_, 313
Nun, 258
Nutcracker, 174
Nuthatch, 99
_Nyctala tengmalmi_, 199
_Nyctea scandiaca_, 199
_Nycticorax griseus_, 226
_Nyroca ferruginea_, 246
_Oceanites oceanicus_, 336
_Œdemia fusca_, 254
---- _nigra_, 253
---- _perspicillata_, 246
_Œdicnemus scolopax_, 282
_Œstrelata hæsitata_, 339
Oriole, golden, 114
_Oriolus galbulus_, 114
Orphean warbler, 70
Ortolan bunting, 154
Osprey, 215
_Otis macqueeni_, 281
---- _tarda_, 281
---- _tetrax_, 281
_Otocorys alpestris_, 178
Ouzel, water, 86
Owl, American hawk, 199
---- barn, 193
---- brown, 198
---- churn, 181
---- eagle, 199
---- European hawk, 199
---- little, 199
---- long-eared, 196
---- scops, 199
---- short-eared, 197
---- snowy, 199
---- tawny, 198
---- Tengmalm’s, 199
---- wood, 198
Oxeye, 92
Oyster-catcher, 293
_Pagophila eburnea_, 329
Pallas’s great grey shrike, 116
---- sand-grouse, 264
_Pandion haliaëtus_, 213
_Panurus biamicus_, 89
Parrot crossbill, 145
Partridge, 267
---- French, 265
---- red-legged, 265
_Parus ater_, 94
---- _britannicus_, 94
---- _cæruleus_, 97
---- _cristatus_, 98
---- _major_, 92
---- _palustris_, 96
Passenger pigeon, 264
_Passer domesticus_, 132
---- _montanus_, 133
_Pastor roseus_, 156
Pectoral sandpiper, 317
_Perdix cinerea_, 267
Peregrine falcon, 208
_Pernis apivorus_, 217
Petrel, Bulwer’s, 339
---- capped, 339
---- fork-tailed, 335
---- Leach’s, 335
---- stormy, 333
---- Wilson’s, 336
Pewit, 290
_Phalacrocorax carbo_, 218
---- _graculus_, 220
Phalarope, grey, 295
---- red-necked, 294
_Phalaropus fulicarius_, 295
---- _hyperboreus_, 294
_Phasianus colchicus_, 264
Pheasant, 264
---- ring-necked, 265
---- sea, 238
_Phylloscopus rufus_, 74
---- _sibilatrix_, 78
---- _superciliosus_, 79
---- _trochilus_, 76
_Pica rustica_, 160
Pied flycatcher, 118
---- wagtail, 104
Pigeon, passenger, 264
Pigmy curlew, 303
Pine grossbeak, 144
_Pinicola enucleator_, 144
Pink-footed goose, 229
Pintail, 238
Pipit, meadow, 108
---- Richard’s, 113
---- rock, 112
---- tawny, 113
---- tree, 110
---- water, 113
_Platalea leucorodia_, 226
_Plectrophanes nivalis_, 152
_Plegadis falcinellus_, 226
Plover, big, 282
---- golden, 284
---- green, 290
---- grey, 286
---- Kentish, 287
---- killdeer, 289
---- lesser golden, 286
---- lesser ringed, 288
---- Norfolk, 282
---- ringed, 287
Pochard, 248
---- red-crested, 246
_Podiceps auritus_, 345
---- _cristatus_, 342
---- _griseigena_, 345
---- _nigrocollis_, 345
Polish swan, 233
_Pomatorhine skua_, 333
_Porzana bailloni_, 278
---- _maruetta_, 277
---- _parva_, 278
_Pratincola rubetra_, 54
_Pratincola rubicola_, 56
Prettichaps, 69
_Procellaria leucorrhoa_, 335
---- _pelagica_, 333
Ptarmigan, 270
Puffin, 351
_Puffinus anglorum_, 336
---- _griseus_, 337
---- _major_, 337
---- _obscurus_, 337
Purple heron, 226
---- sandpiper, 304
_Pyrrhocorax graculus_, 157
_Pyrrhula europæa_, 142
Quail, 269
_Querquedula carolinensis_, 244
---- _circia_, 243
---- _crecca_, 244
---- _discors_, 244
Quest, 258
_Rallus aquaticus_, 277
Raven, 172
Razorbill, 345
_Recurvirostra avocetta_, 316
Red-backed shrike, 114
Redbreast, 59
Red-breasted flycatcher, 118
---- goose, 227
---- merganser, 256
---- snipe, 317
Red-craking night-wren, 84
Red-crested pochard, 246
Red-footed falcon, 217
Red grouse, 272
Red-legged partridge, 265
Red-necked grebe, 345
---- nightjar, 181
---- phalarope, 294
Red night-reeler, 84
Redpoll, Greenland, 140
---- lesser, 139
---- mealy, 140
Redshank, 310
Red-spotted bluethroat, 59
Redstart, 57
---- black, 59
Red-throated diver, 342
Redwing, 45
Reed-bunting, 151
Reed-sparrow, 152
Reed-warbler, 79
---- great, 82
Reelbird, 84
Reeve, 306
_Regulus cristatus_, 72
---- _ignicapillus_, 74
Richard’s pipit, 113
Richardson’s skua, 333
Ringdove, 258
Ringed plover, 287
Ring-necked pheasant, 265
Ring-ouzel, 50
_Rissa tridactyla_, 323
River-chat, 80
Robin, 59
Rock, blue, 262
Rock-dove, 261
Rock-pipit, 112
Rock-thrush, 52
Roller, 190
Rook, 168
Roseate tern, 320
Rose-coloured pastor, 156
Rosy bullfinch, 144
Rough-legged buzzard, 216
Royston crow, 167
Ruddy sheldrake, 236
Ruff, 306
Rufous warbler, 79
Rustic bunting, 154
_Ruticilla phœnicurus_, 57
---- _titys_, 59
Sabine’s gull, 330
Sanderling, 308
Sand-martin, 122
Sandpiper, Bartram’s, 317
---- Bonaparte’s, 317
---- broad-billed, 317
---- buff-breasted, 317
---- common, 309
---- curlew, 303
---- green, 310
---- pectoral, 317
---- purple, 304
---- wood, 316
Sandwich tern, 322
Savi’s warbler, 84
Saw-sharpener, 93
_Saxicola deserti_, 54
---- _œnanthe_, 52
---- _strapazina_, 54
Scaup, 247
Sclavonian grebe, 345
_Scolopax rusticula_, 296
Scopoli’s sooty tern, 323
_Scops giu_, 199
Scops owl, 199
Scoter, black, 253
Scoter, common, 253
---- surf, 246
---- velvet, 254
Screecher, 179
Sea-eagle, 205
Sea-magpie, 293
Sea-pheasant, 238
Sedge-bird, 80
Sedge-warbler, 80
Serin, 128
_Serinus hortulanus_, 128
Shag, 220
Shearwater, dusky, 337
---- greater, 337
---- Manx, 336
---- sooty, 337
Sheld-duck, 235
Sheldrake, common, 235
---- ruddy, 236
Shore-lark, 178
Short-eared owl, 197
Short-toed lark, 178
Shoveler, 245
Shrike, great grey, 116
---- lesser grey, 116
---- red-backed, 114
Siskin, 127
_Sitta cæsia_, 99
Skua, Buffon’s, 333
---- common or great, 330
---- Richardson’s, 333
Skylark, 174
Smew, 258
Snipe, common, 299
---- double, 298
---- great, 298
---- jack, 300
---- solitary, 298
---- summer, 309
Snow-bunting, 153
Snowflake, 152
Snow goose, 227
Snowy owl, 199
Solan goose, 221
Solitary snipe, 298
_Somateria mollissima_, 251
---- _spectabilis_, 246
Song-thrush, 41
Sooty shearwater, 337
---- tern, 323
Sparrow-hawk, 206
Sparrow, hedge, 84
---- house, 132
---- tree, 133
_Spatula clypeata_, 245
Spinner, 181
Spoonbill, 226
Spotted crake, 277
---- eagle, 216
---- flycatcher, 116
---- redshank, 316
---- woodpecker, 181
Squacco heron, 226
_Squatarola helvetica_, 286
Starling, 154
Steller’s duck, 246
_Stercorarius catarrhactes_, 330
---- _crepidatus_, 333
---- _parasiticus_, 333
---- _pomatorhinus_, 333
_Sterna cantiaca_, 322
---- _dougalli_, 320
---- _fluviatilis_, 319
---- _macrura_, 317
---- _minuta_, 320
Stilt, black-winged, 316
Stint, American, 317
---- little, 302
---- Temminck’s, 303
Stock-dove, 261
Stonechat, 56
Stone-cracker, 54
Stone-curlew, 282
Stork, black, 226
---- white, 226
Stormcock, 39
Storm petrel, 334
Stormy petrel, 333
_Strepsilus interpres_, 292
_Strix flammea_, 193
_Sturnus vulgaris_, 154
_Sula bassana_, 221
Summer snipe, 309
---- teal, 243
Surf-scoter, 246
_Surnia funeria_, 199
---- _ulula_, 199
Swallow, 118
Swallow-tailed kite, 217
Swan, Bewick’s, 234
---- mute, 233
---- Polish, 233
---- whooper, 234
---- wild, 234
Swift, 178
---- black, 179
---- needle-tailed, 179
---- white-bellied, 179
_Sylvia atricapilla_, 67
---- _cinerea_, 64
---- _curruca_, 66
---- _hortensis_, 69
---- _nisoria_, 70
---- _orphea_, 70
_Syrnium aluco_, 198
_Syrrhaptes paradoxus_, 264
_Tachybaptes fluviatilis_, 344
_Tadorna casarca_, 236
---- _cornuta_, 235
Tangle-picker, 293
Tawny owl, 198
---- pipit, 113
Teal, 244
---- blue-winged, 244
---- cricket, 243
---- green-winged, 244
---- summer, 243
Temminck’s stint, 303
Tengmalm’s owl, 199
Tern, arctic, 317
---- black, 323
---- Caspian, 323
---- common, 319
---- gull-billed, 323
---- little, 320
---- roseate, 320
---- Sandwich, 322
---- sooty, 323
---- whiskered, 323
---- white-winged black, 323
_Tetrao tetrix_, 273
---- _urogallus_, 275
Thick-knee, 282
Throstle, 41
Thrush, black-throated, 51
---- missel, 39
---- rock, 52
---- song, 41
---- White’s, 52
_Tinnunculus alaudarius_, 212
---- _cenchris_, 217
---- _vespertinus_, 247
Titmouse, bearded, 89
---- blue, 97
---- coal, 94
---- crested, 98
---- great, 92
---- long-tailed, 90
---- marsh, 96
_Totanus calidris_, 310
---- _canescens_, 312
---- _glareola_, 316
Tree-creeper, 124
Tree-pipit, 110
Tree-sparrow, 133
_Tringa alpina_, 300
---- _canutus_, 304
---- _minuta_, 302
---- _striata_, 304
---- _subarquata_, 303
---- _Temmincki_, 303
_Tringoïdes hypoleucus_, 309
_Troglodytes parvulus_, 101
Tufted duck, 246
_Turdus atrigularis_, 52
---- _iliacus_, 45
---- _merula_, 47
---- _musicus_, 41
---- _pilaris_, 46
---- _torquatus_, 50
---- _varius_, 52
---- _viscivorus_, 39
Turnstone, 292
Turtle-dove, 262
_Turtur communis_, 262
Twite, 141
Two-barred crossbill, 145
_Upupa epops_, 190
_Uria grylle_, 350
_Vanellus vulgaris_, 290
Velvet scoter, 246, 254
Vulture, Egyptian, 216
---- griffon, 216
Wagtail, blue-headed yellow, 108
---- grey, 105
---- pied, 104
---- white, 108
---- yellow, 107
Warbler, aquatic, 82
---- barred, 70
---- Dartford, 70
---- garden, 69
---- grasshopper, 82
---- icterine, 79
---- marsh, 82
---- orphean, 70
---- reed, 79
---- Savi’s, 84
---- sedge, 79
---- willow, 76
---- yellow-browed, 79
Water-hen, 280
Water-ouzel, 86
Water-pipit, 113
Water-rail, 277
Waxwing, 114
Whaup, 315
Wheatear, 52
---- black-throated, 54
---- desert, 54
Wheelbird, 181
Whimbrel, 313
Whinchat, 54
Whiskered tern, 323
White-bellied swift, 179
White-eyed duck, 246
White-fronted goose, 230
White-spotted bluethroat, 59
White’s thrush, 52
White stork, 226
Whitetail, 54
White-tailed eagle, 205
Whitethroat, 64
---- greater, 65
---- lesser, 66
White wagtail, 108
White-winged black tern, 323
---- crossbill, 145
---- lark, 178
Whooper swan, 234
Wigeon, 237
---- American, 238
Wild duck, 239
---- swan, 234
Willow-warbler, 76
Willow-wren, 76
Wilson’s petrel, 336
Windhover, 212
Woodchat, 116
Woodcock, 296
Woodlark, 176
Wood-owl, 198
Woodpecker, barred, 183
---- green, 184
---- lesser spotted, 183
---- spotted, 181
Wood-pigeon, 258
Wood-sandpiper, 316
Wood-wren, 78
Wren, 101
---- furze, 70
---- golden-crested, 72
---- red-craking night, 84
---- willow, 76
---- wood, 78
Wryneck, 186
_Xema sabinii_, 330
Yaffle, 185
Yellow-billed cuckoo, 193
Yellow-browed warbler, 79
Yellow bunting, 148
Yellowhammer, 148
Yellow wagtail, 107
---- yoldring, 149
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FOOTNOTES:
[1] _Wild Life in a Southern County._
[2] Seebohm’s _British Birds_.
Transcriber’s Notes:
1. Obvious printers’, punctuation and spelling errors have been
corrected silently.
2. Where hyphenation is in doubt, it has been retained as in the
original.
3. Some hyphenated and non-hyphenated versions of the same words have
been retained as in the original.
4. New partial original cover art included with this eBook is granted
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5. Italics are shown as _xxx_.