Mrs Moreau's Warbler

by Stephen Moss

Cobbett, William 1

  cockatoo 1, 2 gang-gang 1

  cock-of-the-rock 1

  Coccothraustes coccothraustes see hawfinch

  Cohn-Haft, Mario 1n

  Collins Bird Guide 1

  Collins, Wilkie 1

  Colombia 1

  Columbidae 1

  Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Placenames 1n

  Conran, Terence 1

  conservation 1, 2, 3, 4n, 5, 6

  Cook, Capt. James 1

  coot 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 American 1

  cormorant 1, 2n

  corncrake (land rail) (Crex crex) 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Cornish language 1, 2

  Cornwall 1, 2, 3

  Corpus Glossary 1

  Corsica 1

  Coto Doñana, Spain 1

  Cotswold Water Park 1

  Coues, Elliot 1, 2

  ‘Country Diary’ (Manchester Guardian) 1

  Courtenay, Ann 1, 2, 3

  courtship display 1

  Couzens, Dominic 1, 2n

  Coward, T. A. (Thomas) 1

  cowbird 1

  crane 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5 origin of name 1, 2

  persecution/comeback 1, 2n

  place names 1

  Cretaceous-Palaeogene extinction 1

  Crex crex see corncrake

  Cromwell, Oliver 1

  crossbill 1, 2n common 1, 2

  parrot 1n, 2n

  Scottish 1, 2, 3, 4

  Crossley, Richard 1

  crow 1, 2n, 3n, 4 carrion 1, 2, 3

  family 1, 2

  hooded 1

  origin of name 1, 2, 3

  Crystal, David 1, 2, 3

  cuckoo call 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  egg laying 1, 2

  Exeter Book verse 1

  fairs 1

  harbinger of spring 1, 2, 3, 4

  metaphor 1

  migration/tracking 1

  origin of name 1, 2, 3, 4

  curlew 1n ‘jack’ 1n see also whimbrel stone 1, 2, 3

  Dampier, William 1

  Dangerfield, Fyfe 1

  Danish language 1, 2

  darters (‘snakebirds’) 1

  Dartford, Kent 1, 2, 3

  Darwin, Charles 1

  ‘Dawn Chorus’ (Harrold) 1

  Dee, Tim 1n

  Desfayes, Michel 1

  Devon 1, 2, 3

  Dickens, Charles 1n

  Dictionary of the English Language (Johnson) 1

  dikkop 1

  Dilger, Mike 1

  dinosaurs 1n, 2

  dipper 1n, 2, 3, 4

  diver black-throated 1

  great northern 1

  red-throated 1

  yellow/white-billed 1

  DNA analysis 1

  DNA–DNA hybridisation 1

  domestication 1, 2

  Donne, John 1, 2

  Dorville, Eliza 1, 2, 3

  dotterel 1n

  dove 1, 2n origin of name 1, 2

  ring- 1 see also pigeon, wood rock 1

  turtle 1n, 2, 3, 4

  Doves (band) 1

  Drake, Sir Francis 1 duck ‘black sea’ 1 see also scoter

  castaneous 1

  classification 1

  ‘Cuthbert’s’ 1 see also eider

  domestication 1

  ferruginous 1, 2

  fulvous whistling 1

  ‘ha ha’ 1

  long-tailed (‘oldsquaw’) (Clangula hyemalis) 1

  mandarin 1

  ruddy 1 see also individual ducks

  dunlin 1

  dunnock (Prunella modularis) 1, 2, 3n, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

  Dutch language 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  ‘duvet’ 1

  eagle classification 1, 2

  golden 1

  origin of name 1, 2

  sea/white-tailed (‘erne’) 1n, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Spanish imperial 1n

  wedge-tailed 1

  Eagles (band) 1

  Eagles (Crystal Palace football club) 1

  East Africa 1

  East Anglia 1, 2, 3

  Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania 1, 2

  Edith the Fair 1

  Edward VI, King 1

  Edward VII, King 1

  Edwards, George 1

  egret cattle 1

  little 1

  reddish 1

  Egypt 1, 2

  eider 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n

  eiderdown 1, 2

  Eilat, Israel 1

  Ekwall, Eilert 1n

  Elenora of Arborea 1

  Eliot, T. S. 1

  Elizabeth I, Queen 1, 2

  emu 1, 2

  English Civil War 1

  English language Middle 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Modern 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n, 6, 7, 8

  Old 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

  origins of 1

  surnames 1

  Erithacus rubecula see robin

  ‘erne’ 1 see also eagle, sea

  Etawah, Uttar Pradesh 1

  evolution 1, 2

  Exeter Book 1

  Exeter Cathedral 1

  extinctions 1, 2, 3

  Eyton, Thomas 1

  Fair Isle 1n

  Falco subbuteo see hobby

  falcon ‘ash-coloured’ (Falco cinerarius) 1 see also harrier, Montagu’s

  classification 1n, 2, 3

  Eleonora’s 1n, 2

  peregrine 1, 2, 3n, 4 see also hobby; kestrel; merlin

  falconry 1n, 2

  Farne Islands 1

  Fatal Shore, The (Hughes) 1

  Fauvette pitchou see warbler, Dartford

  Ferdinand of Aragon 1

  Ferguson-Lees, James 1

  ferruginous (coloration) 1

  fieldfare 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  finch cardinal 1

  Corsican citril 1n

  Locust 1

  origin of name 1 see also individual finches

  First Fleet 1, 2, 3

  Fisher, James 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12n

  flameback, Himalayan 1

  flamingo 1

  Flannan Isles 1

  Fleming, Ian 1

  ‘flop wing’ 1 see also lapwing

  Florio, John 1n

  flycatcher monarch 1

  Phoebe 1

  pied 1

  sad 1

  spotted 1

  white-tailed crested 1

  yellowish 1

  flyways, global 1

  folk names see bird names

  football clubs 1

  Formby Point, Lancashire 1

  ‘fowl’/‘foule’ 1, 2

  Fowles, John 1

  Franklin, Sir John 1, 2

  Fraser, Ian 1

  Fratercula arctica see puffin

  French language Modern 1

  Norman 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Old 1, 2, 3, 4

  friarbird 1, 2

  frigatebird, magnificent 1

  ‘fugol’ 1 see also ‘fowl’

  Fuller, Thomas 1

  fulvous (coloration) 1

  ‘furzeling’ 1 see also warbler, Dartford

  Gaelic, Scottish 1, 2, 3, 4

  gallinule 1n

  Gandhi, Mahatma 1

  gannet 1n, 2, 3n metaphor 1

  origin of name 1, 2

  Garden Birds (Barclay-Smith) 1

  Garvey, Guy 1

  Gaskell, Elizabeth 1

  Gené, Giuseppe 1

  General History of Birds, A (Latham) 1

  Genesis, Book of 1, 2

  Germanic language 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Proto-/Old 1, 2, 3

  West 1, 2 see also Old Norse

  Gessner, Conrad 1, 2

  Gilbert, W. S. 1

  Gill, Frank 1

  Glanville, Eleanor 1

  glaucous (coloration) 1

  ‘goatsucker’ 1, 2 see also nightjar

  Godwinson, Gytha 1

  godwit bar-tailed 1

  black-tailed 1

  ‘cinereous’ (greenshank) 1

  goldcrest 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n />
  goldeneye 1n, 2, 3n

  Goldeneye (film) 1

  Goldeneye, Operation 1

  goldfinch 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n

  Gondwanaland 1

  Gooders, John 1, 2

  Goodwin, Derek 1

  Goodwin, Jimi 1

  goose barnacle 1, 2

  bean 1, 2, 3

  brent 1, 2, 3

  Canada 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5

  Cape Barren 1

  cravat 1

  domestication 1

  down 1n, 2

  Egyptian 1n

  greylag (Anser anser) 1

  migration 1

  origin of name 1, 2, 3, 4

  pink-footed 1, 2n, 3

  white-fronted 1, 2

  goshawk 1n, 2, 3n

  Gould, Stephen Jay 1n

  ‘gowk’ 1, 2, 3 see also cuckoo

  grackle 1

  Granada, Siege of 1

  Gray, Jeannie 1

  Gray, John Edward 1n

  Great Expectations 1

  Great Fen 1

  grebe 1, 2 black-necked/eared 1, 2

  red-necked 1

  Slavonian 1, 2

  Greek language 1, 2, 3

  greenbul, joyful 1

  Greenewalt, C. H. 1

  greenfinch 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6n

  Greenland 1

  greenshank 1, 2n

  greyish mourner 1

  grosbeak 1

  grouse black 1, 2

  red 1, 2, 3, 4n

  willow 1 see also capercaillie

  grouse (verb) 1

  Guardian 1

  guidebooks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  guillemot 1, 2n

  Guillemots (band) 1

  guineafowl 1

  gull Audouin’s 1, 2n

  black-headed (Chroicocephalus ridibundus) 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5n

  common 1, 2n

  Franklin’s 1n, 2, 3

  glaucous 1

  great/lesser black-backed 1n

  herring 1, 2n, 3n

  Iceland 1, 2

  ivory 1

  Mediterranean 1, 2

  origin of name 1, 2

  Ross’s (Rhodostethia rosea) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Sabine’s (Larus sabini) 1, 2

  Gulls, the (Torquay United football club) 1

  ‘gypsy-bird’ (hoatzin) 1

  habitat artificial/human 1

  -based names 1, 2n, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  loss 1, 2, 3n

  Hamilton, John 1

  Hamlett, Gordon 1

  Hand-list of British Birds, A (Hartert) 1n

  Handbook of British Birds, The (Witherby et al.) 1

  Hardy, Thomas 1

  Harold Godwinson, King 1

  harrier hen 1, 2, 3n, 4n

  marsh 1, 2n, 3

  Montagu’s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Harrier (jump jet) 1

  Harris, James Edward 1

  Harris, Joanne 1, 2

  Harris, Scotland 1

  Harrold, A. F. 1, 2

  Hartert, Ernst 1n, 2

  hawfinch 1, 2n, 3

  hawks, Old World 1

  hawk-owl, Hume’s 1n

  heathland 1, 2

  ‘hedge chanter’ 1, 2 see also dunnock

  Helpston 1

  Henry II, King of France 1, 2

  Henry VIII, King 1, 2

  heron 1, 2n ‘buff-backed’ (cattle egret) 1

  Chinese pond 1n

  grey 1, 2

  night 1, 2

  purple 1n, 2

  ‘spoon-billed’ 1 see also spoonbill

  tiger 1

  Highland Clearances 1

  Highlands, Scottish 1, 2, 3

  Hill, Christopher 1

  Hindi language 1

  Hirta, St Kilda 1

  History of British Birds, A (Berwick) 1, 2

  History of British Birds, A (MacGillivray) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  History of British Birds, A (Yarrell) 1, 2, 3, 4

  History of the Rarer British Birds, A (Eyton) 1

  hoatzin (‘gypsy-bird’) 1

  Hobbes, Thomas 1

  hobby (Falco subbuteo) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Holland, Lady Elizabeth 1

  Holme, Randle 1

  Holme, Richard 1

  Holy Island 1

  honeyeater, graceful 1

  hoopoe (Upupa epops) 1, 2, 3, 4

  Hopkins, Gerard Manley 1

  Horobin, Prof. Simon 1

  horse, domestication of 1

  Horse, the Wheel and Language, The (Anthony) 1

  Howerd, Frankie 1

  Hudibras (Butler) 1

  Hudson, W. H. 1

  Hughes, Robert 1

  Hume, Allan Octavian 1, 2, 3, 4

  Hume, Mary 1, 2

  hummingbird 1

  hunting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  hunter-gatherers 1, 2, 3, 4

  Ibis (journal) 1n, 2

  Iceland 1, 2, 3

  Icelandic language 1n, 2

  Icteridae 1

  icterine (coloration) 1

  Idler (magazine) 1

  Illustrated Manual of British Birds, An (Saunders) 1n

  Indian Civil Service 1, 2

  Indian Congress Party 1

  Indian Mutiny 1

  Indian National Congress 1

  International Ornithological Congress 1, 2

  Ireland 1, 2, 3

  Isabella Clara Eugenia, Princess 1, 2

  Isabella of Castile 1, 2

  ‘Isabelline’ (adjective) 1, 2, 3

  Isle of Man 1, 2

  Israel 1

  Italian language 1n, 2, 3n

  jackdaw 1, 2n

  Jacky winter 1, 2

  Jacobs, Nancy J. 1

  jaeger 1, 2 see also skua

  Jagger, Mick 1

  James I and VI, King 1

  James Bond 1

  jay 1, 2, 3n ‘Bohemian’ 1 see also waxwing

  Johns Revd C. A. 1

  Johnson, Dr Samuel 1, 2

  Jonson, Ben 1

  Julius Caesar 1

  Jutes 1

  Keats, John 1, 2

  Kilangala (mountain), Tanzania 1

  King Lear (Shakespeare) 1n

  kingfisher 1, 2, 3, 4 origin of name 1

  Kingsley, Charles 1n

  kite 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n black 1

  black-winged 1

  origin of name 1, 2

  red 1, 2

  white-tailed 1

  kite (toy) 1, 2

  kittiwake 1n, 2, 3, 4n black-legged 1

  red-legged 1

  Kleinschmidt, Otto 1

  knot 1, 2n, 3n, 4

  Knowle House, Devon 1

  Knox, Alan 1

  Koepcke, Maria 1n

  kookaburra 1

  korhaan 1

  Kulussutajevsk 1

  Lady Penrhyn (ship) 1

  Lambert, Rob 1

  Land Birds (Bewick) 1, 2

  land rail 1, 2, 3 see also corncrake

  Landmarks (Macfarlane) 1

  language, origin of 1, 2, 3 see also individual languages

  lapwing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10n

  Lapwings, Loons and Lousy Jacks (Reedman) 1

  lark ‘grasshopper’ 1 see also warbler, grasshopper

  horned 1

  Hume’s 1n

  magpie- 1

  origin of name 1

  pie (recipe) 1

  ‘scribble’ 1 see also yellowhammer

  shore 1, 2, 3

  use of word in English 1 see also skylark; woodlark

  ‘The Lark Ascending’ (Meredith) 1

  Larus sabini see gull, Sabine’s

  larynx (human) 1

  Latham, John 1, 2, 3, 4, 5n

  Latimer, Hugh 1

  Latin language 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11n, 12n see also binomial nomenclature

  Lawrence, D. H. 1

  ‘LBJ’ (little brown job) 1

  Leach, Dr William Elford 1, 2, 3, 4

  Leadbeater, Benjamin 1

  leaftosser, short-billed 1

  Lever, Sir Christopher 1

  Limpenhoe, Nor
folk 1

  Lincolnshire Fens 1

  Lindisfarne 1

  Lindo, David 1, 2

  Linnaean Society 1

  Linnaeus, Carl 1, 2, 3

  linnet 1n, 2, 3, 4n

  Linnets (football teams) 1

  Lockwood, Prof. W. B. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11n, 12

  longspur 1 Lapland 1 see also bunting

  loon common 1

  ‘great northern’ 1

  yellow-billed 1 see also diver

  lorikeet, rainbow 1

  lorrequet 1

  lourie, Ross’s (Musophaga rossae) 1

  Lowland Scots (dialect) 1

  lyrebird 1, 2

  macaw 1

  McDonald, Colonel Marshall 1

  Macfarlane, Robert 1

  MacGillivray, William 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Madagascar 1

  ‘mew’ (mæw) 1

  Magnetic North 1, 2

  magpie 1, 2, 3 Australian 1

  magpie-lark 1

  Magpies (football teams) 1

  Malham Cove, N. Yorkshire 1

  mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) 1, 2, 3

  malleefowl 1

  Mallorca 1

  Manchester Guardian 1

  Mandarin Chinese language 1n

  Marmora, Alberto della 1, 2

  Marsden ‘Cuckoo Day Festival’ 1

  martin house 1, 2, 3

  sand 1, 2n

  Mary, Queen 1

  Massie, Allan 1

  Master, Dr Bernard 1

  Mayr, Ernst 1

  Mayr’s Biological Species Concept (BSC) 1

  meadowlark 1

  Mearns, Barbara 1, 2, 3