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Linde Order Picker v12 Workshop Manual
Linde Order Picker v12 Workshop Manual
INDEX
A
Adventures among Birds, 216
"Age of Fools," story of the, 8
Agriculture, decay of, in Gloucestershire, 174
Amazon, double-fronted, 256
Arnold, Matthew, on birds, 161
Arthur, King, legend of, 165
Asses, wild, their braying, 78
Axe, daws in the valley of Somerset, 59, 61, 187
B
Baring-Gould's Broom Squire, 225
Bath, 66;
bird life in, 68
Bee, stingless, in La Plata, its mode of attack, 43
Beech leaves, 84
Birds, stuffed, effect of, 1-7;
at their best, 13-18;
mental reproduction of voices of, 18-26;
durability of images of, 28-32;
their relations with man, 37, 48-50;
human suggestions in voices of, 121-132;
rare, their gradual extirpation, 236-248
Birds of Berkshire, 225
Birds of Wiltshire, 169
"Bishops Jacks," at Wells, 61
Blackbird, 124
Blackcap, its song, 112-114
Blue, in flowers, 136, 154
Booth collection, the, at Brighton, 3
Brean Down, singular appearance of, 188;
shildrakes binding at, 194
Brissot and the Merrimac River, 35
"British Bird of Paradise," 100
British Ornithologists's Union, 24
Broadway, raven superstitions at, 114
Burns, "Address to a Wood-lark," 127
Burroughs, John, on the willow wren, 101;
search for the nightingale, 222
C
Carew, Thomas, lines quoted, 144
Cathedral Daws at Wells, 61
Cattle, tended by birds, 39
Chaffinch, song of, 114
Children, imitative calls of, 177
Chrysotis guildingi, 250
Chrysotis lavalaniti, 256
Collections of birds, small educational value of, 6
Collectors, destruction of Dartford warblers by, 224-231;
as law-breakers, 234-237
Cowper, the poet, on the daw's voice, 74;
as naturalist, 76
D
Dartford warbler, 3;
dead and alive, 4;
search for the, 223;
cause of decrease of, 224;
gradual extirpation by collectors, 229;
at its best, 31, 231-234
Daws, cows and, 39;
at Savernake, 58, 90-93;
choice of a breeding site, 58;
stick-carrying and dropping by, 62-64;
originally builders in trees, 63;
at Bath, 66, 71-78;
their voices, 72-75;
alarm cry, 92
Deer and jackdaw, 41
Destruction of British birds and pressing need for remedy, 224-248
E
"Ebor Jacks," 61
Ebor rocks, former presence of ravens at the, 171
Exmoor, extirpation of birds by keepers in the Forest of, 170
Expression in natural objects due to human associations, 133;
in flowers, 135-137
F
Faber, Father, lines on the yellow hammer, 285
Feathers, falling, birds' fear of, 252
Ferne, Sir John, on azure in blazoning, 157
Flowers, expression in, 133, 153;
human colours in, 135-137;
vernacular names of, 137-140, 145;
yellow and white, lack of human associations in, 146-149;
personal preferences, 153;
charm due to human associations, 154
Fowler, Mr Warde, on wagtails, 159;
on the willow wren's song, 121
Frensham Pond, swallows and swifts at, 51;
gold-crests at, 53
Furze wren, see Dartford Warbler
G
Gardens, 151
Geese, on a common, 78;
at Lyndhurst, 199;
their lofty demeanour, 200, 206, 216-221;
degraded by culinary associations, 201;
as watch-dogs, 203;
Egyptian representations of, 203;
voice of, 210;
migratory instinct in domestic, 213
Geese, Magellanic, 204;
voices of, 205;
courtly demeanour of, 206;
a migrating pair of, 214
Gerarde, 150
Gold-crests alarmed, 53, 57
Gould, on abundance of the Dartford warbler, 224
Gray, Robert, on the gray-lag goose, 210
Gresset, the story of Vert Vert by, 264
Grey, Sir Edward, on the study of birds, 33
Grove, Sir George, blackbird's singing described by, 124
Guarani, legend of a parrot, 264
H
Hastings, daws at, 62
Henley, W. E. on bird poems, 286
Herodotus, on flying feathers and snow, 254
Honey buzzard, destruction of the, 228, 236
Humming-bird, defending its nest, 42
I
Impressions, emotion a condition of their permanence, 6, 15;
sound, 18;
durability of, 26
J
Jackdaws, see Daws
Jays, spring assemblies, 94-100;
mimicry, 95;
variability of song, 97;
their call, 99;
mode of flight, 99;
British bird of Paradise, 100
Jefferies, Richard, on yellow flowers, 148
K
Kearton, Mr Richard, suggestion for the protection of rare birds by,
240
Kennedy, Clark, on the furze wren in Berkshire, 225
King Arthur, legend of, 165
Kingfishers, alive and dead, 12
L
Land's End, the, 155
La Plata and Patagonia, images of birds of, 26
Lapwing, the spur-winged, and sheep, 44
Leslie's Riverside Letters, 124
Letters of Rusticus, 226
Linnets, a concert of, 188
Livett, Dr, a raven story told by, 171
Long-tailed tit at its best, 16
Lynton, wood wren at, 97
M
Macgillivray, on the redbreast, 48
Magellanic geese. See Geese
Magpie, manner of flight of, 284
Mammals, relations of birds with, 38
Man, from the birds' point of view, 37;
the robin's pleasure in his company, 48
Maxwell, Sir Herbert, on the "cursed collector," 161
Medum, representation of geese at, 203
Memory of things seen, 18;
of things heard, 18
Montagu's Dictionary of Birds, account of the jay in, 95
Mivart, St George, on dead birds, 270
N
Naturalist, the old and new, 294
Nature, modern sense of the unity of, 294
Newman on the Dartford warbler, 226
Nightingale, quality of its voice, 128
Nothura maculosa, the "partridge" of Argentina, 252
O
Ossian's address to the sun, 148
Owl, wood, hooting of the, 178;
superstitions regarding the, 181;
a pet, 184
Owls, in a village, 173
P
Parrot, caged and free, 249;
the St Vincent, 250, 254;
history of a double-fronted amazon, 256;
a lost language talked by a, 258;
longevity of the, 261;
tales and legends of the, 264-268
Partridges and rabbits, 45
Patti, Carlota, bird-like voice of, 128
Peregrine falcon, fight with raven, 167
Peterborough, the great Lord, and a canary, 263
Pheasant and chicks, 52
Pigeon family, the, original notes of, 88
Pigs in the New Forest, 81
Q
Quixote, Don, as to tradition of King Arthur, 165
R
Rabbits, how regarded by partridges, 45
Ravens, in Somerset, 160;
aëreal feat of, 161;
decrease and disappearance of, 169-170;
superstitious fear of killing, 165;
last, 170;
tapping at lighted windows, 170
Raven tree, a, 169
Red, in flowers, human associations of, 141-145
Redbreast, tameness of the, 48
Reed warbler, the, in Somerset, 190-191
Ruskin, "word painting," 72;
on cathedral daws, 73;
on the distinction of beauty, 238
S
Saintbury, village of, 176;
owl superstitions at, 180
St Vincent parrot, 250;
anecdote of, 254
Savernake Forest, early spring in, 76;
daws in, 90;
jays in, 94
Sea-birds, protection of, 240, 242
Seebohm, on the wood wren, 105;
on the willow wren, 117;
on jay assemblies, 95
Selborne, a first sight of, 284;
changes in its bird population, 293
Sheep, tended by birds, 39;
quarrel of a spur-winged lapwing with, 44
Sheldrake in Somerset, 191;
tame and wild, 193;
appearance when flying, 193;
singular breeding habits, 194-195
Sigerson, Miss Dora (Mrs Shorter) in "Flight of the Wild Geese," 213
Skylark, song, 116
Somerset, daws in, 59;
ravens in, 160;
red warbler in, 190
Sound-images, their durability, 18, 21
Spencer, Herbert, on social animals, 47;
on the origin of music, 131
Starlings, their services to cattle, 39;
abundance at Bath of, 71
Summer Studies of Birds and Books, 159
Sunlight, effects on plumage of birds, 3, 12
Swallows, how man is regarded by, 49-53, 55;
alarmed by a grey hat, 57;
quality of the voice of, 125;
Gilbert White on hybernation of, 291
Swifts, unconcern of in man's presence, 51;
at Selborne, 287
T
Tennyson, on the speedwell, 149
Throstle, loudness of its song, 118
Tits, blue, at Bath, 71;
long-tailed, seen at their best, 16
Tree-pipit, quality of voice of, 126
U
Upland geese. See Geese.
V
Visitants, rare annual slaughter of, 237
W
Wagtail, pied, attending cows in the pasture ... quality of voice of,
125
Wallace, Alfred Russel, Bird of Paradise assemblies described by, 100
Wells, daws at the cathedral, 60;
a wood wren at, 102
White, Gilbert, wood wren's song, described by, 106;
willow wren's song described by, 122;
associations with, at Selborne, 288;
an imaginary conversation with, 291
Whiteness, in flowers, 146;
magnifying effect of, 193
Willersey, owls at, 173;
a pet wood owl at, 184
Willow wren, Burroughs on the song of the, 101;
Gilbert White's description of its song, 122;
Warde Fowler's description of its song, 121, 122;
abundance and wide distribution of, 117
Willoughby, Father of British Ornithology, willow wren described by,
118
Wood lark, Burns' address to, 127
Wood owl. See Owls.
Wood pigeon, song of, 85;
human quality in voice of, 87-90
Wood wren, at Wells, 102;
difficulty in seeing, 103;
inquisitiveness, 104;
secret of its charm, 114
Wookey Hole, source of the Somerset Axe, 59
Wordsworth, bird voices preferred by, 107
Y
Year with the Birds, A, 122
Yellow, in flowers, 146
Yellow-hammer, singing in the rain, 285
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Transcriber's Notes
Beyond the list of corrections detailed below, a number of
minor corrections may have been applied where indentation,
commas, or periods were either missing or existed where other
similar usage (for example, first paragraph in the Chapter and
index listings) does not have it.
Typographical Corrections
Page Correction
8 Barragan → Barragán
14 procesess → processes
19 has becomes → has become
34 scare → score
48 een → even
49 comany → company
89 accompnay → accompany
112 shubbery → shrubbery
150 beauitful → beautiful
151 adnire → admire
152 destested → detested
161 pasages → passages
175 intervvals → intervals
203 if → of
214 yon → you
226 vey → very
232 torquoise → turquoise
233 curosity → curiosity
246 offender's → offenders
252 tinamu → tinamou (twice on this page)
253 tinamu → tinamou
256 dosing → dozing
267 familes → families
303 ascociations → associations
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