/a 



Chicks that try to catch flie.s before 

 they leave the nest, 132 



■ understand call notes 



directly they are hatched, 202 



watch for the return of 



their parents, 132 



, Venturesome, 128 



, what becomes of them when 



they leave the nest, 133 



with a good coat of down, do 



without down, 95 



Child frightened to de.tih by th<' 



note of an owl, 11)2 

 Christening Tits, U 

 Cocoanut and Tits, S 

 Colonies, Birds that breed in, 43 

 Corncrake, Notes of the, 188 

 Crow, Carrion, The cunning of a, 



GO 

 Crows, A brood of voung Carrion, 



120 



, how they open shellfish, 23 



Cuckoo baby, and how it ejects 



other chicks from a nest, 1 34 



, colour of the egg of, 90 



singing by night, 190 



, Teaming a, 191 



Dispositions of binl>. Differing, 2G 

 Dotterel, Einged, attacking .Sea- 



Gulls, lOG 

 Down and the purposes it serves, 96 



growing upon chicks, 141 



Ducklings destroyed by I'ike, 110 ' 

 Ducks, Domestic, swallowing 



young :Moorhens, 2(3 

 , how tliey convey their young 



from elevated situations to the 



ground, 111 



Eagle, Golden, Food of the, 2G 

 Effect of song on men and birds, 

 171 



D£X. 



209 



^■^oo> -^ window in an, 79 



, Colour of, in relation to that 



of its layer, 78 

 : Eggs and varying periods of incu- 

 bation, 90 



Colour of, 85 



, Colour of, iu ivlation to a^-e 



of layer, 86 ° 



, Difference in size of, 79 



, Ground colour of, 59 



, Injury to shell of, 79 



■ laid in covered nests, 61 



■ laid in holes, 67 



laid on ground and their 

 colour, GO 



, Marking on, 86 



, ^liniature, 81 



, number laid by a single bird 



87 



, i<]vdpe of, 82 



, size of those of Kaven and 

 Curlew, 81 



, Variation in size of, 81 



Egg shells and their characteristics 



78 

 Eider Duck and value of nesting 



down, 73 

 Endurance and speed of birds on 



the wing, 162 

 Enemies of waterfowls, no 

 Existence, .Struggle for, in the 

 bird- World, o(j 



Eeather, Construction of a, 139 



, Growth and life of a, 142 



, Parts of a, 140 



Feathered vocalists, Listenino^ to 



167 ' 



Feathers, and the care birds take 



of them, 149 

 . and the effects of use and 



disuse upon them, 146 



