INDEX. 



365 



Xest, Curious lining of an Oyster-catclier's, 103 

 Position of a Grouse's, 150 



,, „ of a Spotted Fly- 



catcher's, 190 



,, Situations for a Pied Wagtail's, 



19(i, 228 



Decoration of a Cliaffincli's, 1S4 



High Situation of a Swallow's, 328 



How a Rabbit hides its, 177, ISO 



Jay's, 224 



Kestrel's Eggs in Raven's, lO:! 



• Merlin's, 141 



Movini; a Gray Wagtail's, 200 



of St. kilda Wren, 71 



Ospreys, 194 



Peculiar Position of a Blackbird's, 204 



. Photographing a Shrike on, 200 



Rook stealing Sticks from a Heron's, 100 



Wood Wren's, 22:i, 224 



Nesting-Box, Story of n, 189 

 Nesting-places, Curious, 196 

 Nests, Adaptation of Old, 192 



Blue Tit's, 223 



" Cock's," of Common Wren, 180 



■ Down-lining of Ducks', 200 



Extravnuance in building, 192 



Fork, d-tail.'d Petrel's, (.4 



Hrnisr .Martin's, 188 



. Hdtt Du.ls sil on their, 198 



real' I.'. 11,1, .11, -.'22 



Old, A,|,iiit, .1 liv Kestrel, 192 



Ph,,t.iu'iapliin-,"in High Hedges, 352 



',, ■ in Trees, :;4(, :Ui;, 348 



■ Poor aecomniodation ,,l s,'mi,', I'ui; 



Robins', in Curious Situal miis, i'.iO 



Rooks stealing Sticks fr,)ni each 



other's, 190 



Sand Martins', 188 



Simultaneous building of, 184 



Spare, 186 



Sparrow's, stolen by Starlings, 190 



Spotted Fly.-ateli, r's, 223 



Variation nfsi/.,' ,,|", 188 



Watt-rhfu's Spaiv, IsO 



Well and liaillv liidden, 188 



Nets, Clap, How u-,.ik,_-d, 2Si 



Used for catrlung Birds, 276 



Netting a Hare, 173, 174, 175 



Newspaper Reporters, Disappointment of, 5 



Night in a Cleit, 99 



on Deck, 133 



Nightingales, Trapping of, 290 



Southern Flight of, 292 



Nightjar, Sleeping habit of, 245 

 Nurse, Brave, 132 

 Notes of Curlew, 212 



of Roseate Tern, 256 



Notion, Curious, in Regard to Photography, 

 326 



Oar, Broken, 122 



Oban, Earlv Morning Wait at, 133 



Oflering My Brother for Sale, 49 



Oil from a Dead Whale, 46 



- — - Sipiirtedby Forked-tailed Petrels, SO ; by 



Fulmar Petrel, 115, 119 

 Ornithologists, Startler for, 24 

 Orphans, How cared for at St. Kilda, 53 

 Ospreys at Home, 194 

 Owl carrying its Prey, 245 



molibed by Small Birds, 245 



Photographing, by Flashlight, 244 



Procuring Food by Day, 244 



Owls, Where they Sleep, 244 

 Oyster-catcher's Nest, Curious lining of an, 

 193 



Paradise of Britksh Ornithologists, 1 

 Parliament, St. Kilda, 53 

 Parsley, Hare's Love of, 177 



Parting with Friends, 129 

 Passen'gers on a Highland Boat, 311 

 Partridges. Call-Notes of, 172 



Curious Temper of, 170 



Poai'hing of, 171 



Protection of, 171 



"Jugging of," 170 



Paying People to Photograph them, 50 



Peat-Diirii'-rs, 319 



Peewit, II.iliiK ,if, 212 



Percln > ,i! M, ,iiiiig Bird.s, 232 



Pereginic, Keeping a, off Her Eggs, 138 



— Notes of, 130 



Robbing Terns, 258 



Story of, 138 



. Trying to shoot, 130 



Wing-Power of, 138 



Peregrine's Love of an Old Breeding Haunt, 



138 

 Peregrines, Trying to shoot a Pair of, 141 

 Petrels, Breeding Burrows and Habits of, 244 



• Fulmar (see Fulmar Petrel) 



Pheasant-Breeding, 164, 166 



Pheasants, Eggs of, stolen 'oy Rooks, 146 



,, Variation in Colour of, 166 



• Favourite Roost, 240 



Great theft of Young 168 



How Young are reared, 168 



■ Where they sleep, 247 



Y''oung, and Hawks, 142 



Photograph of Cormorants, Swimming for, 348 



Photographer and Camera falling into a 

 Pond, 358 



Falling through a Floor, S 



Photographic Apparatus, Our, 334 



Photographing Adder, 140 • 



Birds by Night, Difficulties of, 247 



Birds' Nfsts in Higli Hedges, 352 



— Birds on Snow, 355 



Blackbirds' feeding their Young, 213 



from Boats, 350 



Fulmar Petrel, 108, 115 



Gray Wagtail on her Nest, 200 



Insects, 358 



in Water, 352 



■ Jay feeding her Young, 224 



Kinghsher, 355 



Moth by Flashlight, 247 



• Ne.sts in Trees, 344 



„ ,, Dangers and Difficulties 



of, 346, 348 



Owl by Flashlight, 244 



St. Kilda Wren, 74 



,, Wren's Nest bv Reflected 



Liglit,75 



Shrike on her Nest, 200 



Solan Geese, Danger of, 208 



• Swallows by Flaslilighl, 240 



,, onTclcgiaph Wire, 350 



, . Thrnsli at Hnost, 234 



luiilcr Dillicultics, 110 



Water Voles, 3.54 



Wild Animals, 354 



„ Duck, .358 



■ witli Camera on Stilts, 352 



Young E:der, 262 



,, Shags, 104 



Photographs, Sitting up all Night for, 316 



How we take oui', 334 



Photography, Curious Notions about, 326 



Dangers of Cliff, 341 



Physical Degeneracy, 32 



Piety of St. Kildans, 11 



Picture, A Dearly-Bought, 228 



Pigeon, How a Homer, saved a Child's Life, 



324 

 Plover, Ringed, Habits of, 208 



,, Y'oungof, 208 



Plovers, Position of Eggs of, 206 

 Where they sleep, 231 



