Index 



Page 

 Sparrow, House, Nesting 



habits of the ... 30 

 Tree, Nesting habits 



of the 31 



Speed of birds' flight 61 ff 

 Starling hawking for 



flies 55 



in Norway ... ... 190 



Nesting habits of the 31 



Stick-builders ... 29 



Stryn Valley, Bird life in 194 



Sulisgeir 178 



Swallow changing nest- 

 ing habits ... 33 

 Esculent ... ... 26 



Method of nest build- 

 ing ... ... 27 



Swifts passing night in 



the air ... ... 131 



Tawny owl feeding cap- 

 tive young ... 125 



Tegetmeier on speed of 



birds 62 



Tennyson as the poet of 



birds ... ... 147 



Tern, Nesting habits of 



the 175 



Sandwich ... ... 28 



Page 

 Thompson, Francis, and 



Nature ... ... 153 



Thorburn, Archibald, 



and bird portraits 136 



Vee Skerries 182 



Wagtail, Pied, Nesting 



site of the ... 31 



Water-builders ... 29 

 Waterhen, Diving 



habits of the ... 50 



nesting in bushes ... 130 



Watkins, Rev. S. Cornish 35 



Wheatear ... ... 195 



Whinchat imitating 



other birds ... 104 



Whip-poor-will ... 215 



White eggs laid in holes 40 

 White, Gilbert, on Flight 



of birds ... 43 



on Swallows' nests ... 33 



Whitman, Walt, on birds 152 



Wing-spread of birds ... 21 



Wing, Structure of the 16 

 Woodcock carrying its 



young ... ... 125 



Wood-wren, Note of the 94 

 Wordsworth's descrip- 

 tions of birds ... 146 



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