Chapter M

Martin, House, 184, 304.
“ Purple, 190.
“ Sand, 41, 43, 187, 305.

N
Nightingale, 32, 313-318.
Nightjar, 204, 320.

O
Oriole, Golden, 262.

P
Pipit, Meadow, 124.
“ Pennsylvanian, 149.
“ Red-throated, page 152.
“ Richard’s, 142.
“ Rock, 130.
“ Tawny, 146.
“ Tree, 135, 318.
“ Water, 138.

R
Rail, Land, 288.
Red-backed Shrike, 276.
Redstart, Common, 74, 310.
“ Black, 78.
Reed Warbler, 101.

S
Shrike, Red-backed, 276, 325.
Stonechat, 13.
Swallow, 42, 43, 170, 302.
Swift, Alpine, 199.
“ Common, 191, 305.
“ Spine-tailed, 203.

T
Turtle Dove, 282.

W
Wagtail, Grey, 112.
“ Grey-headed, 121.
“ Pied, 106.
“ Ray’s or Yellow, 117, 319.
“ White, 110.
Warbler, Aquatic, 91.
“ Blackcap, 44.
“ Garden, 59, 326.
“ Grasshopper, 86, 322.
“ Great Reed, 101.
“ Icterine, 29, 30.
“ Marsh, 92.
“ Melodious, 29, 30.
“ Orphean, 51.
“ Reed, 82, 85, 101, 326.
“ Rufous, 103.
“ Savi’s, 88.
“ Sedge, 81-85, 319.
“ Willow, 24.
“ Wood, 16, 323.
Wheatear, 1, 321.
Whinchat, 9, 321, 322.
Whitethroat, Common, 67, 309.
“ Lesser, 71, 322.
Willow Wren, 24, 308.
Woodchat, 281.
Wood Wren, 16, 323.
Wryneck, 242.

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in my outlet; but were frighted and persecuted by idle boys, who would never let them be at rest.[126]

Three gros-beaks (_Loxia coccothraustes_)[127] appeared some years ago in my fields, in the winter; one of which I shot: since that, now and then, one is occasionally seen in the same dead season.

[126]The hoopoe is an irregular spring and autumn visitant to this
country. It has occasionally nested here, and would do so, no doubt,
more frequently if unmolested. Colonel Montagu states, in his
“Ornithological Dictionary,” that a pair of hoopoes began a nest in
Hampshire, but being disturbed forsook it, and went elsewhere; and
Dr. Latham, in the Supplement to his “General Synopsis,” has
referred to a young Hoopoe in nestling plumage, which was shot in
this country in May. A pair nested for several years in the grounds
of Pennsylvania Castle, Portland (_cf._ Garland, “Naturalist,” 1852,
p. 82), and according to Mr. Turner, of Sherborne, Dorsetshire, the
nest has been taken on three or four occasions by the school-boys
from pollard willows on the banks of the river at Lenthay. The birds
were known to the boys as “hoops.” Mr. Jesse, in a note to this
passage in his edition of the present work, states that a pair of
hoopoes bred for many years in an old ash tree in the grounds of a
lady in Sussex, near Chichester.—Ed.

[127]_Coccothraustes vulgaris_ of modern systematists.

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