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INDEX. 



Sparrows as Thieves, 178 



, House, and Heat, 11 



Spiders, Accomplishments of, 145 



, Artifices of. 150 



, Devotion of, 148 



, Heroism of, 150 



, How they Guard their Eggs, 148 



, Preserving Food for Young, 148 



— -, Service Rendered by, 145 



, Young, How they Scatter to 



Safety when Threatened by Danger, 



150 

 Snipe, Common, and Chicks. 114 

 , , Male Feeding Chicks and 



Brooding, 116 

 Starling, Deceiving a, 48 

 Starlings as Thieves, 178 



in Hard Weather, 291 



Stoat and Rabbit Encounters, 80 



- Catching Jay, 80 



in Squirrel's Nest, 79 



, Photographing a, 83 



Stuffed Ox, 2 



at Cattle Pond, 8 



, Drawbacks of, 4 



, Success of, 12 



Swallows and Building Materials, 12 

 , Barn, Nesting in an Occupied 



Bedroom, 63 

 Swallow's, Barn, Nest on Bell, 63 



, , in Old Shoe, 63 



, . , on Bell, 63 



, Lath, 63 



Taming Wild Creatures by Kindness, 



212 

 Teal, Garganey, Disappearance of, as a 



British Breeding Bird, 225 

 Temperature at wliich Wasps Wake 



from Winter Sleep, 141 

 Tern, Arctic, Attacking a Man, 237 

 Terns at Fame Islands, 236 

 Thrushes, Young Song, Fed by Robin, 



71 

 Thrusli, Missel, and Moulting, 78 



, Song, 10 



, , and Chicks, 70 



, , Wooden Eggs, 48 



, , Curious Accident to a, 231 



, , Nests of, 54 



, , Finding Iut way back to lier 



Nest in tlie Dark. 183 

 , , Sitting Down on Nest with 



Food in her Bill, 74 

 Tit, Bearded: Appeal to Egg Collectors, 



210 



, , Habits of, 209 



, — -, Not an Extinct British Bird, 



209 

 Tits and Hazel Nuts, 288 

 at Cocoanut, 280 



Tits, Blue, Endowed with Good Mem- 

 ories, 290 



, Food for, 285 



Trout, Food of, 86 



Twite, Boldness of, 106 



, Length of Time it Sits, 106 



Visual Powers of Birds, 181, 183 



Wagtail, Pied, Nesting in Target Pit, 62 



, Yellow, 202 



Wagtails, Yellow, Accident to, 77 



, , and Food, 206 



. , Behaviour of, 204 



Warbler, Garden, 169 



, Grassliopper, and Wooden Eggs, 51 



, , Habits of, 210 



, , Pliotographing a, 212 



, , Arcliitecture of, 200 



, Sedge, 196 



, , and Young Cuckoo, 199 



, , Exiierinients upon a, 200 



. , Nest-building Habits of. 198 



, , Song of. 198 



Warblers. Heed, and their Young. 201 



, Sedge, and Stolen Nests, 1^ 



Warnings L nlieeded by a Bird, 166 

 Wasps, 140 



Water for Birds in Winter, 285 

 Waterhen, Curious Accident to a, 277 

 Waterhens and their Fooil in Winter. 



277 

 Weather Forecasting by Hedge Fruit, 



263 

 , Droughty, Effect on Song Thrushes' 



Nests, 54 

 Webs, Spiders', 145 

 Wheatears and Stuffed Slieep, 17 



, Feeding Habits of, 20 



Whitetliroat. L.^ser, 167 

 Wild Life, Curiosities of, 53 

 Winter, Birds in, 262 

 Wootlcock and Severe Frosts, 272 

 Wooden Mask and Birds, 46 



, Making a. 45 



Woodpecker, Feeding Habits of Green, 



179 

 Woodpeckers, Green, 178 

 Wood Pigeon, Food of, in Severe 



Weather, 271 

 Woods and Birdlife, ICl 

 Worms and Frosty Weather, 263 

 Wren and Food in Winter, 291 

 — , Wwxl, Appreciation of Colour. 161 



-^, Habits of, 161 



, , Photographing a, 160 



Yellow Hammer and Song. 176 

 , Nesting Sites of, 176 



I'kintkd bv Cassell & CoMi'ANV, LiMrrED, La Belle Sai'vaoe, Losdox, E.G. 



