IXDEX. 



21 



Oyster Catchers, Baby, and their 

 j)arents. 100 



Partridge, The, as a foster parent, 



134 

 Partridges as distributors of plants, 



166 



killed by a train, 160 



Peewit, Mother, a sensible, 107 

 , , defending- her young-, 



107 



, Xotesof the, 18S 



Phonograph, Pecording bird songs 



ujjon the, 178 

 Photographing- an old Cock Spar- 

 row, 14 

 Pipit, Tree, swallowing a snail, 23 

 Plants that trust to birds for the 



distribution of their seeds, 105 

 Plover, l\ing-e.l, "Nesting habits of, 



76 

 Poets, Exaggerations of, about the 



song of the Nightingale, 18-i 



on nest building skill of 



birds, 33 



Privation and morals of birds, 17 

 Protective colour of blooding birds. 



71 

 Puffins and their tunnels, 66 

 • and the way they bring food 



for their young, 124 



ejecting- rabbits from their 



burrows, 66 



Ifabbits, how they prepare nesting 

 materials for birds, ')4 



Railway train stopped by cat< r- 

 pillars, 2 



Eaven's nes-t made of hoops, oO 



Restaurtmt for b ids, 6 



Robin, A confiding, 27 



Robins, Selfishness of, 13 

 Rooks, Amusing antics of, 117 



and edible snails, 16 



- — - and injurious grubs, 4 



as egg stealers, 114 



as thieves, 40 



chasing Herons, 106 



devouring Starlings, 17 



, Wise and unwise, 15 



, Young, learning- to find food, 



118 

 Roosters, A pair of fighting, and a 



cunning old Sparrow, 55 



Salt, Catching a Sparrow with a 

 pinch of, 15 



Sea birds and their food, 122 



Seagulls and Scottish turnips, 18 



in London, 17 



on the Thames Embankment, 



Feeding, 18 



Sedge Warbler, A Night Singer, 

 187 



as a mimic, 195 



made to sing by dis- 

 turbing it during- the night, 

 187 



Shellfish, How opened by birds, 

 23 



Shrikes and their larders, 28 



Sight of birds, 158 



Sing, How young birds learn to, 

 173 



Singing and soaring of the sky- 

 lark, 176 



birds that spend a lot of 



time practising, 174 



competitions in the East End 



of London, 177 



, First efforts of young birds, 



174 



fi'om anger. 17C 



