212 



Our Bird Friends. 



Nature's choir, Best time to hear. | 

 169 I 



Nest, A Jackdaw's, ten feet hinh, 

 38 



, Delig-ht over the first found. 



32 



made of wax vestas and 



cigai-ette papers, 35 



, How a bird builds its, o8 



Nesting- habits of AVryneck, 38 



holes, Demand for, 39 



materials left by dead birds, 



supplied by cows, horses, 



and sheep, 54 



, T'ncommon, 17 



site, Selection of a, 54 



sites, Favourite, 43 



, Interesting departures 



from usual, 44 



, Some cui'ious, 46 



tmmeds dug- by 8and Martins. 



length of, 65 

 Nests adorned with flowers, 50 

 -, and how long birds take to 



build them, 38 

 belonging to birds capable of 



defending them, 60 



close together, 43 



, Different kinds of, h^ 



, Open-topped, 57 



, Spare, for chicks, 53, 112 



, , l)uilt by Wrens, 53 



, Splendidly liidden, 77 



, Strange things that havt 



been foimd in, 50 



that are annually repaired, 44 



covered or dcimed. ^ 



01 ! 



■ deep and cup- 

 shaped, 60 



do Udt look like r.ests at 



all. 70 1 



Nests, Variation in workmanship, 



shape and size of, 34 

 Nest-stealers, SpaiTOws as, 39 

 Nightingale, its song, 185 



-, limited distribution of, 186 



. the prince of British song- 

 birds, 185 

 Nightingales not loved by some 

 people, 186 



shot because they disturb 



pheasants, 186 



singing by day quite unde- 

 tected, 185 



that only sing by day, 186 



, why they sing by night, 186 



Nightjar, Peculiar notes of the, 



188 

 Noise made by a broken flight 



feather, 162 

 Notes, Call, imitated by Starling, 



194 



, How a Lesser Black-Backed 



Gull produces his, 172 



, How birds produce their, 171 



of the Red Grojse, 200 



Obedience of ducldings and gos- 

 lings, 110 

 Oil glands and preening, 153 

 Orcadians, their cunning way of 



killing Gannets, 25 

 Owl, Tawny, and its victims, 121 



, , Fierceness of, 106 



, , Note of the, 191 



, -, working to advantage 



of Carrion Crows, 119 

 Owls and their useful services, 28 



catching fish, 28 



feeding by day, 121 



Oyster Catcher, Great fall of a 

 young, 96 



