Part 31

Natural affection, 133.

Natural history little attended to, 41.

Naturalist, pleasing occupations of the, 83.

Nature, designs of, 204

— changes in, 221

— tendencies of, to produce, 277.

Nests of birds, 121, 122.

Newt, the common, 215

— a small shell-fish often attached to its toes, ibid.

Nidularia, the bell-shaped, 94.

Nightingale, the, less common than heretofore, 138

— croaking of, 188.

Nosegays, 57.

Oak tree, description of one, 42

— several of extraordinary magnitude, 43, 45

— the oak less fruitful now than formerly, 44

— its value, from its various uses, 46.

Oat-grass, 70.

Pain, instance of insensibility to, 17.

Passerine birds, 172.

Peacock butterfly (note), 200.

Peewit, the, 179.

Phallus. See Morell.

Pick-a-bud, name given to the bull-finch, 114.

Pimpernel, the, a prognosticator of fine weather, 174.

Plants, blossoms of, 52

— names given to them of old, from their supposed qualities, 68

— pores of, 82