Chapter VII: The Birds of Virgil

Virgil’s haunts in Italy, in boyhood and manhood—Virgil true to
nature—Pigeons in his poems—Crane and Stork; their
migrations—Corvus and cornix—Swans—The ‘alcyon,’ in Latin and
Greek ornithology—Voice of the Kingfisher—The ‘acalanthis’;
warblers in Italy and Greece—Virgil’s sea-birds and
swallows—Nightingale in Homer and Virgil—Simile of ghosts and
birds in _Sixth Aeneid_—Autumn migrations from the north 210

NOTES 255

INDEX 263

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Fox and Snow Finches _Frontispiece_
First Lesson in Flying 20
Redpoles 22
Early Ablutions 28
The Tern, or Sea Swallow 34
Fieldfares 35
Reed Warbler _to face_ 42
Nest on College Bell 67
The Alps in June _Headpiece_ 68
Bonelli’s Warbler 110
Kingham Rectory 111
Feat of a Nuthatch 129
Nest of Spotted Flycatcher 131
Rooks worrying Gulls 142
Whinchat on Telegraph Wires 144
Grasshopper Warbler 155
Out-door Relief 175
The Alps in September _Headpiece_ 177
Crossbills _to face_ 189
Johann Anderegg 209
Willow Warbler’s Nest 254

A YEAR WITH THE BIRDS.