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INDEX 



Sparrow-hawk, 160, 204 

 Spotted fly-catcher, 42 

 Swift, 42-3 



Water-voles, 198-9 

 Weasels, 203-4 

 Whitethroat, nestlings of, 64 

 Willow- wren, the, 42-51 



— courtship, 49 



— habits, 44-6 



— nest, 48, 50 



— song, 38-9, 43, 47, 49, 50 



Winter, animal life in, 183-6, 



197-216 

 Wood-pigeons in winter, 149, 



150,201, 210-11 

 Wood- wren, the, 19-41 



— courtship, 24-5 



— food, 22 



— nest, 25-8 



— notes, 33, 37-8 



— plumage, 36 



— young, 30-2, 40-1 

 Wren, song of, 78-9, 20^-9 



WILLIAM BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS, PLYMOUTH, ENCLAKH 



