Essays on natural history, chiefly ornithology / By Charles Waterton, with a continuation of the autobiography of the author.

  • Waterton, Charles, 1782-1865.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Essays on natural history, chiefly ornithology / By Charles Waterton, with a continuation of the autobiography of the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Comstack, weasels in a, 231 Corrosive sublimate, solution of, 596 Cost of park wall, 119 Cotinga, 507, 610 Coulacanara snake, 434 Cow-bunting, paper on, 555 Cowie, Rev. Mr, 505 Creation, picture of the, 610 Cressy, a Waterton at, 4 Criticism on the “ Wanderings,” 57 Cromwell, Oliver, 6, 118 Crook Hall, 11 Cross, stone, 1, 121, 136 Crowther, Mr Joseph, 115 Crow’s nest used by kestrel, 267 Crowing of barndoor fowl, 499 of pheasant, 499 Croxdale Hall, 10 Cuckoo, 317, 343, 555 Custom-house exactions, 56 Cycnus, story of, 405 Dane, story of a, 420 Darlington, Lord, 21, 30 Darning-needle, story of a, 17 Davis, Mr, 68 Death of the King of Denmark, 428 ... of a swan, 406 ... of Waterton, 132 Decay in trees, 507 “ Dee,” West Indiaman, 420 Defence against wild beasts, 490 Delamain, Lieutenant, 492 Delaware, ornithology of the, 241, 571 Delights of ornithology, 281 Demerara, Waterton goes to, 31 Dendermond, 76 Dennis, controversy with the Rev. W. P- B., 599 Derivation of the word alligator, 421 Descent of the cliffs, 409 Despatches, Waterton carries, 33, 40, 4L Devotions, Waterton’s, 130, 132 Dialogue between ant-bear and how- ler monkey, 142 between orang-outang and Waterton, 184 Dick, Sir L., 556 Differences between Canada goose and • swan, 563 Dillon, Mr, 28 Dinner at Angustura, 35 Dinner parties, Waterton’s abstinence from, 46 Dish at a modern feast, 484 Dissections, number of Waterton’s, 590 Distinction between harmless and veno- mous snakes, 433 Docking horses’ tails, 466 Dog-carts, 205 ... Tribe, 196 ... Roasted, 488 Dole on St Thomas’s day, 332, 567 Dominica, 42 Douai, 9 Dovecots and starlings, 327 Dover, mishap at, no Drake, plumage of the, 390 Du Chaillu, 582, 607, 615 Duck, red-crested, 92 Duff, Consul, 23 ... Mrs, 208 ... Tiger, 15 Dunnock, Dicky, 595 Durham, 9, 11, 15 Dutch William, 232 Dysentery, 102 Dyver, in Eagle and vulture, encounter of, 263 Owl, 560 Earthquakes at Malaga, 27 Easter-week at Tudhoe, n Easter-Sunday, hare killed on, 242 Edmonstone, the Misses, 1, 2, 62, 79, 105, 108, 132 Archibald, 33, 442 ... Charles, 33, 39, 62, 434 Eel-hook in swan’s gullet, 404 Eel-line, herons on, 386 Eggs of cormorant, 414 dovecot pigeon, 365 ... duck (wild), 387 ... jackdaw, 314 ... magpie, 322 owl (tawny), 281 pheasant, 367 ... ringdove, 358 ... rook, 309, 312 sea-fowl, 408 Elba, wreck off coast of, 506 El Dorado, 47 Ellis, Alfred, of Belgrave, 270 Elm and fir, junction of, 459 English, boast of the, 129