by Stephen Moss
Mearns, Richard 1, 2, 3
Mediterranean Sea 1, 2, 3
Melville Peninsula, Canada 1
Meredith, George 1
merganser, red-breasted 1
merlin 1
Mexico 1
Middle Ages 1, 2
Middle East 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Middleton Hall, Warwickshire 1
Midsummer Night’s Dream, A 1
migration 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Mikado, The (Gilbert and Sullivan) 1
Miles, John 1
Mimus macdonaldi see mockingbird, Hood miner bell 1
noisy 1
mockingbird, Hood (Española) (Mimus macdonaldi) 1
Moltoni, Prof. Edgardo 1
Monroe Jr, Burt L. 1, 2, 3
Montagu, Ann (née Courtenay) 1, 2, 3
Montagu, George 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Montagu, Georgina 1
Montagu, Henry 1
Montagu, Isabella 1
Montagu, James 1
moorhen 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5
Moreau, David 1, 2
Moreau, Prinia 1
Moreau, Reginald Ernest 1, 2, 3, 4
Moreau, Winifred 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Mori, Disce (Sutton) 1n
Morocco 1
Moss, Kay 1
Motacilla alba yarrelli see wagtail, pied M. alba alba see wagtail, white
Mullens, William 1
Music Instinct, The (Ball) 1n
Musophaga rossae see lourie, Ross’s
Mynott, Jeremy 1
Naming Nature (Yoon) 1n
Nansen, Fridtjof 1
Napoleonic Wars 1, 2
Nashe, Thomas 1
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich 1
Natural England 1
Natural History of Dee Side and Braemar, The (MacGillivray) 1
Natural History of Selborne, The (White) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Natural History Museum see British Museum of Natural History
nature, mankind’s dominion over 1
Nature (journal) 1
Nene Washes, Cambridgeshire 1
Netherlands 1
New Calton Cemetery, Edinburgh 1
New Forest, Hampshire 1, 2
New Guinea 1
New South Wales 1, 2, 3
New Testament 1
New Yorker (magazine) 1n
New Zealand 1, 2, 3, 4
Newton, Prof. Alfred 1, 2
Nicholson, Max 1, 2, 3, 4
nightingale 1n, 2n
March 1 see also blackcap
migration 1
song 1, 2, 3
nightjar 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Noble, Martin 1
Norman Conquest 1, 2, 3
North Africa 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
North America 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8n, 9, 10n, 11, 12, 13
North Pole, Magnetic 1, 2
North Rona 1
North Sea 1, 2, 3, 4
North-West Passage 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Norwegian language 1, 2
Not BB 1
nutcracker 1, 2
nuthatch 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5
Observer’s Book of Birds, The 1
Oddie, Bill 1, 2
‘oldsquaw’ see duck, long-tailed
Old Norse 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Old Testament 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
olivaceous (coloration) 1
Orford Hall, Warrington 1
Orinoco Delta 1
oriole Audubon’s 1n
Baltimore 1, 2
Bullock’s 1, 2
golden 1
New World 1
origin of name 1
Ornithological Dictionary; or Alphabetical Synopsis of British Birds 1, 2, 3
Ornithology (Willughby & Ray) 1, 2, 3, 4
oropendolas, New World 1
Osorio, Prof. Daniel 1, 2
osprey 1, 2n
Ostend, Siege of 1–9
ouzel ‘black’ 1, 2 see also blackbird
ring 1, 2
‘water’ 1n, 2 see also dipper
owl barn 1, 2, 3, 4
brown see tawny
‘churn’/‘fern’/‘goat’ see nightjar
eagle 1n
fulvous 1
Hume’s 1n
Koepcke’s screech- 1n
long-eared 1
scops 1
short-eared 1
snowy 1
tawny 1, 2, 3
Tengmalm’s 1n
Owls (Sheffield Wednesday nickname) 1n
Oxford Book of English Verse 1
Oxford English Dictionary (OED) 1n, 2n, 3n, 4, 5n, 6n, 7, 8n, 9, 10n, 11 definition of bird 1
oystercatcher 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6n
Palearctic-African Bird Migration Systems, The (Moreau) 1
Palearctic, Western 1, 2
Palin, Sarah 1
Pallas, Peter Simon 1n, 2, 3
Palsgrave, John 1
Panuridae 1
parakeet 1, 2 Pennant’s 1 see also rosella, crimson
rose-ringed 1
Pareek, Aishwarya Shiva 1
Paris, Matthew 1
‘The Parlement of Foules’ (Chaucer) 1, 2
parrot, elegant 1
Parry, Capt. William 1
partridge red-legged 1n
Udzungwa forest 1
Parulidae 1
Passer domesticus see sparrow, house
Patagonia 1
Pavord, Anna 1n, 2, 3
Payraudeau, Charles 1
peacock 1
peafowl 1
‘peerie deuk’ 1 see also phalarope, red-necked
peewit 1, 2, 3 see also lapwing
Pelican Books 1
penguin emperor 1
king (Aptenodytes patagonicus) 1
Pennant, Thomas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Perrins, Christopher 1
petrel European 1
Fea’s 1n
Leach’s storm- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
New Zealand storm- 1
origin of name 1
Swinhoe’s storm- 1n
Tristram’s storm- 1n
phalarope grey 1, 2, 3
origin of name 1
red-necked 1
Wilson’s 1n
pheasant 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Lady Amherst’s 1, 2, 3
Philip II, King of Spain 1
Phillip, Arthur 1
Phoebe (name) 1
Phylloscopus schwarzi see warbler, Radde’s
phylogeny 1
picathartes (bald crow) 1
pigeon rock 1
wood 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Pilgrim Fathers 1
pipit Blyth’s 1n
buff-bellied 1
meadow 1, 2n, 3n, 4
Richard’s 1, 2n
rock 1, 2, 3
tawny 1
tree 1
water 1, 2
pitta 1 Indian 1
place names, British 1, 2
plains-wanderer 1
Pliny the Elder 1, 2
plover golden 1
grey 1
Kentish 1
little 1
‘Norfolk’ 1 see also curlew
ringed 1, 2
plumage 1, 2, 3 colour range 1
identification features 1, 2, 3, 4
pochard 1, 2n
Poole Harbour 1, 2
Porter, Roy 1
‘The Progress of Rhyme’ (Clare) 1
Protestantism 1
Proto-Indo-European (PIE) language 1, 2, 3
Prum, Prof. Richard O. 1
Prunella modularis see dunnock
Prynne, J. H. 1
ptarmigan 1 ‘rock’ 1n, 2
‘willow’ 1n see also grouse, red
puffin (Fratercula arctica) 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5
origin of name 1
Puffin Books 1
Puffinus puffinus see shearwater, Manx
‘purple swamphen’ 1
quail 1n, 2, 3n
quail (verb) 1
Radde, Gustav 1, 2<
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rail 1, 2 invisible 1
land 1, 2, 3, 4 see also corncrake
water 1n
Raleigh, Walter 1
Ralph, Robert 1
raptors 1
Rasmussen, Pamela 1
raven 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11n
Ray, John 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Red Sea 1
‘redbreast’ see robin
redshank 1n
redstart 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8n, 9, 10n black 1, 2
‘blue-throated’ (bluethroat) 1, 2
redwing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
‘reedling’ 1 see also tit, bearded
Reedman, Ray 1
Rees, Merlyn 1
Renaissance 1
Rhodostethia rosea see gull, Ross’s
Richard I, King (Richard the Lionheart) 1
Richard of Lunéville, Monsieur 1n
Richards, Keith 1
Richardson, Sir John 1, 2, 3, 4
Ridley, Nicholas 1
riflebird, graceful 1
robin (Erithacus rubecula) 1n, 2, 3n, 4 American 1
eastern/western yellow 1
hooded 1
mangrove 1
origin of name 1, 2, 3, 4
‘redbreast’ 1, 2n, 3n, 4, 5, 6
‘ruddock’ 1, 2
song 1, 2, 3
Robins (football teams) 1
Robinson, Eric 1
roller 1, 2
Roman Empire 1
rook 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Rooper, George 1n
rosefinch, Sinai 1
rosella, crimson 1
Ross Island/Sea 1
Ross, James Clark 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Ross, John 1
Ross, Lady Eliza 1n
Rothschild, Lord Walter 1, 2n 3
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1
Royal Navy 1
RSPB 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Rubens, Peter Paul 1
‘ruddock’ see robin
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor 1
rufescent (coloration) 1
ruff 1
rush-tyrant, many-coloured 1
Rycaut, Paul 1
Sabine, Edward 1
Sacred Ibis: The Ornithology of Canon Henry Baker Tristram (Hale) 1n
St Albans monastery 1
St Cuthbert 1
St Guthlac of Crowland 1
St Kilda (archipelago) 1, 2
St Peter 1
Salaman, Paul 1, 2
Sample, Geoff 1, 2
sanderling 1
sandgrouse 1n Pallas’s 1n, 2n
sandpiper ‘ash-coloured’ 1
Baird’s 1n
buff-breasted 1
wood 1
sapsucker, yellow-bellied 1
Saskatchewan River 1
Saunders, Howard 1n
Savi, Paolo 1
Scandinavian languages 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5n, 6, 7, 8 see also Old Norse
scarecrow 1, 2
scaup 1n
Schwarz, Ludwig 1
scoter 1
Scotland see Highlands, Scottish; St Kilda; Western Isles
Scott, Capt. Robert Falcon 1, 2
Scott, Kathleen 1
Scott, Sir Peter 1, 2n
Scottish National Dictionary 1
sea parrot 1 see also puffin
‘sea-mew’ 1, 2 see also kittiwake
‘sea-pie’ 1, 2 see also oystercatcher
Seafarer, The 1
Seagulls (Brighton and Hove Albion football club) 1
Seebohm, Henry 1
seedsnipe 1
Selous, Edmund 1
serin, Tristram’s 1n
shag 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5
Shakespeare, William 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7, 8, 9
Sharpe, Richard Bowdler 1, 2
Sharrock, Tim 1, 2
shearwater 1 Audubon’s 1n
Balearic 1n, 2
Cory’s 1
Manx 1, 2, 3
Scopoli’s 1n
Yelkouan 1n
shelduck 1, 2n
Shell Bird Book, The 1n, 2n
Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1
Shetland 1, 2, 3
shooting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
shoveler (Anas clypeata) 1, 2, 3, 4n
shrike brown 1n
‘cinereous’ see red-backed
Isabelline 1, 2
red-backed (‘butcher-bird’) 1, 2
Sibley, Charles G. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
‘silk-tail’ 1 see also waxwing
Simoni, Anna 1n
sitella, varied 1
Skomer 1n
skua 1, 2, 3 Arctic 1, 2, 3
great 1
long-tailed 1
‘parasitic’ 1, 2 see also Arctic
skylark 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7n, 8 origin of name 1
smew 1
Smith (surname) 1
Smith, William Thomas 1
Smyth, Arthur Bowes 1, 2
‘snakebirds’ (darters) 1–8
sniper 1
snowcock, Caucasian 1n
Somerset (Moors and Levels) 1, 2n, 3, 4
South Africa 1, 2, 3, 4
South America 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
South Pole 1, 2
Spanish Empire 1
Spanish language 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5
sparrow 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6 Dead Sea 1
‘hedge’ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 see also dunnock
house (Passer domesticus) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8n
‘reed’ 1, 2 see also bunting, reed
tree 1, 2
sparrowhawk 1n, 2n
species defining 1
lumping 1, 2, 3
new 1
splitting 1, 2, 3
world total 1, 2
Spenser, Edmund 1
spinebill, eastern 1
spinetail, Delta Amacuro 1
spoonbill 1
Sri Lanka 1
starling 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Tristram’s 1n, 2, 3n
Status of Birds in Britain and Ireland, The (BOU) 1
Stedman, Capt. J. G. 1
Steel, Mark 1n
stint, Temminck’s 1, 2
Stodmarsh, Kent 1
stonechat 1, 2n ‘white-rumped’ 1 see also wheatear
stork 1, 2, 3
Stour Valley 1
Stover, Matthew Woodring 1
Stray Feathers – a journal of ornithology for India and his dependencies (Hume) 1
Subbuteo (game) 1
sunbird Palestine 1
scarlet-chested 1
Uluguru violet-backed 1
Surflet, Richard 1
Sussex University 1
Sutton, Christopher 1
Swainson, Revd Charles 1
Swainson, William 1
swallow 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 barn 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5, 6
‘hibernation’ 1
‘house’ 1 see also martin, house
‘sea’ 1 see also tern, common
swan Berwick’s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n
black 1
mute 1n, 2
origin of name 1, 2
whooper 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5n
Swedish language 1, 2
Swedish Ornithological Society 1
swift 1, 2 white-rumped 1
Sykes, Col William Henry 1
Sylvia 1 S. atricapilla see blackcap
S. dartfordiensis 1 see also warbler, Dartford
Sylvia (name) 1
Sylviidae 1
syrinx (vocal organ) 1
Systema Naturae (Linnaeus) 1
Tan, Vincent 1n
Tasmania 1
Taylor, John 1
teal 1, 2n ‘hottentot’ 1n
Temminck, Coenraad 1, 2, 3
Ten Commandments 1
tern 1n, 2, 3, 4n Arctic 1, 2, 3
black 1
common 1
gull-billed 1n
origin of name 1
roseate 1
Sandwich 1, 2, 3
white-winged 1
territory, defending 1n, 2, 3
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Hardy)
1
thick-knees 1 see also curlew, stone
Thomas, Keith 1
throstle 1 see also thrush, song
Throstles (West Bromwich Albion football club) 1
thrush MacGillivray’s names 1
mistle 1n, 2
Naumann’s 1n
song 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6
Swainson’s 1n, 2n
White’s 1, 2n, 3 see also blackbird; fieldfare; redwing
Times, The 1, 2, 3n
tit bearded 1, 2, 3
blue 1, 2n, 3, 4n, 5n
coal 1, 2, 3n
crested 1n, 2n
great 1, 2, 3n, 4
long-tailed 1, 2, 3
marsh 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6
as rude word 1, 2
‘titmouse’ 1, 2
willow 1n, 2, 3, 4
Titmice of the British Isles, The 1
‘Tit-Willow’ (Gilbert and Sullivan) 1
Toms, Mike 1
Treaty of Versailles 1
treecreeper 1, 2, 3, 4n
Tristram, Revd Henry Baker 1n, 2, 3n
Troglodytes troglodytes see wren
Trollope, Anthony 1
Truman, Harry S. 1n
Tucker, Bernard 1
turaco 1 Ross’s (Musophaga rossae) 1
Turdus merula see blackbird
Turner, William 1, 2, 3
turnstone 1n
Uluguru Mountains, Tanzania 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Uppsala Cathedral 1
