Index. 



215 



Thieves, Feathered, 38 



Tit, Blue, and Kestrel Hawk, 11 



Tit, Great, nesting in strange 



situation, 36 

 , Long-tailed, a clever weaver. 



64 

 Tits and cocoanuts, 8 



, Blue, and kernel of nuts, 10 



, , and maize, 10 



-, Chi'istening, 9 



, Great, and Greenfinches, 8 



, -. and kernels of nuts, 1 1 



, Hard work done hy a pair of 



Blue, 126 

 , Long Tailed, How they dis- 

 pose of their tails whilst 



brooding, 64 

 , Young Bearded, fed mostly 



by father, 127 

 Throat of a Thrush, Effect upon, 



when singing, 172 

 Thrush, A young, that laid in an 



old one's nest, 52 

 , What the song of a, 



sounds like, 179 



jMissel, attacking a stuffed 



owl, 106 



, , Bravery of, 10.') 



Thrushes, feeding habits of, 2 1 



singing under their breath, 



178 



, Young, le.iving nest too 



soon, 130 

 Town-bred birds, Ideas of, 15 

 Trees destroyed by Caterpillars at 



Hong Kong, 3 

 Turnips, Scottish, and Seagulls, 18 



Vocal accomplishments, Variou.- 

 degrees of amongst song 

 Thrushes, 178 



! Vo3alists of the night, 184 

 j Voles, A plague of, 28 



Warbler Grasshopper, Song of the, 



187 

 Waterfowl, Enemies of, 110 

 Waterhen's device for hiding her 



nest, 74 

 Weather, Effect of on food supply, 



114 

 , Hard, and its effect on birds, 



6 

 Wild creatures, how they help 



each other, 24 

 Wind, how it helps birds when 



taking wing, 156 

 Wing beats, Slow and rapid, 154 

 of a bird, its complexity, 



138 

 Wings, Areas of, 154 



, Clii)ping, 151 



, Noise made by, 161 



, Positions assumed by, during 



flight, 158 



, Shape and size of, 153 



, When chicks begin to 



exercise their, 128 

 Winter resort of our iummer 



birds, 164 

 Wisdom of Rooks, 15 

 Wonders of birds' nests, 33 

 Woodpeckers, Feeding habits of, 21 

 , Nesting holes of, stolen by 



Starlings, 38 

 Wren, Brown, Thieving propen- 

 sities of, 40 



, Common, Adaptiveness of, 62 



, , departing from archi- 

 tectural style in nest-building, 



35 

 ^^^ryneck, nesting habits of, 38 



