Mrs Moreau's Warbler

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