214 



Oi'R Bird Friends. 



Singing with food in the bill, 173 

 Skuas, How they roh other birds, 



28 

 Sleeping hours of birds in summer 



and winter, 182 

 Snail and a Tree Pipit, 23 

 Snails, Edible, and Kooks, 16 



as food for birds, 23 



Snipe, Frightened by the weird 



note of a, 189 

 , Theories about reproduction 



of note of the, 190 

 Soaring of birds, loo 

 • and singing of the skylark, 



176 



of the Albatross, l.')7 



Song, Experiments in imitation, 



195 



of Missel Thrush, 180 



of Nightingale, 181 



of Red-backed Shrike, 196 



of Skylark, Duration of, 174 



of Starling, 1 9o 



• , Tower of a bird's, 180 



Songs and call notes, Dividing 

 line between, 197 



of birds as a solace to the 



blind, 1G8 



of l)ir(ls in lUitain, 1()7 



Sound, Transmission of, by wood, 



21 

 Sparrow, Catching a, with a pinch 



of salt, lo 



■ , Hedge, feeding hiibits of, 13 



r.otes, 1()9 



, Cock, Photographing an old, 



14 

 singing like a Canary, 196 



using borrowed note, 196 



Sparrow's nest made of old watch 



springs, 47 

 Sparrows as nest stealers, 39 

 robbing a Thrush, 12 



Speed and endurance of birds on 

 the wing, 162 



of birds reduced by clay stick- 

 ing to their feet, 165 



Spring decorations, 150 



Starling, An inquisitive-minded, 

 125 



imitating mewing of a cat 



and sound of bells, 195 



Starlings and the kind of food th^y 



lo\e, 13 

 and the rate at which they 



feed their young, 124 



as imitators, 192 



devoured by Kooks, 17 



, How a ilock of alight, 100 



, Industrious habits of, 13 



stealing Woodpecker's holes, 



38 

 Sunflower heads and (Greenfinches, 



G 

 Swallow feeding on the ground, 125 



killed by a cyclist, 160 



Swallows and Mosquitoes in 



Venice, 3 

 killed by golf balls, 100 



the way they catdi tbeir 



prey, 20 



Swifts, Feeding habits of, 20 



Tails (.f birds and their uses. 160 

 Tern, Arctic, Attacked by an, 104 

 , , flying off with young, 



111 

 Terns and their young-, a feeding 



puzzle, 124 

 , their habit of feeding bitting 



females, 26 

 • , how they catcli ihcir iut\v, 



25 

 Terns making an artificial beach, 76 



