INDEX 



257 



Sexual dimorphism, 80, 81, 128, 

 156 



Sexual selection, 42, 160, 161, 205- 



207 

 Shikra, 175 

 Shrike, 164-167 

 Shrike, bay-backed, 165 

 Shrike, Indian grey-backed, 165 

 Shrike, rufous-backed, 165 

 Shoveller, 8 

 Sisters, seven, i 

 Skylark, 5 

 Skylark, Indian, 5 

 Smell, sense of, in birds, 123 

 Smith, Mr. Bosworth, 141 

 Snipe, full, 8 

 Snipe, Jack, 8 

 Sparrow, 2, 3, 16-22, 75, 76, 143, 



197-201 

 Sparrow, hedge, 1S5 

 Sparrow-hawk, 6, 166, 175, 200 

 Spectator, 168, 169 

 Spice bird, 52-55 

 Sporaginthus a^nandava, 46 

 Spotted-bill duck, 171 

 Spotted owlet, 94 

 Sprinter, feathered, 89-94 

 Stability of species, 40-45 

 Starling, 88, 106 

 Stint, 9 

 Stork, 35, 36 

 Strix Jlatnmea, 3, 141 

 Strix j'avaiiica, 141 

 Sunbird, 78-83 

 Surntailtis higiibris, 202-207 

 Swallow, 84, 99, 100 

 Swift, 84, 99-103 



Tailor-bird, 62-67, 137, 219 



Teal, 8 



Terminology, ornithological, 73 



Terpsiphone paradisi, 81, 156 



Tetrao scoticits, i 



Thavmobia cambaycnsis, 128, 130 



Think, Do animals? 213-218 



Thirst of young birds, assuaging of, 



225-228 

 Thorndike, Professor, 214 

 Thrush, I, 105, 106 

 Tit, blue, I 



Tragedy, tree-top, 145-149 

 Tree creeper, 84 

 Turkey, 93 

 Turtle dove, red, 128 

 Tjtrtur cambayensis, 125 

 Turtur decaocta, 74, 75 

 Turtur risorius, 74, 75, 124 

 Ttirttir stiratensis, 124 



Uroloncha piinctulata, 52 



Vidal, 74 

 Vulture, 175 



Wagtail, 7 



Wagtail, pied, 26, 27, 180 



Wallace, 161 



Warbler, 219, 220 



Weaver-bird, 137, 183-189, 219 



"White ant," 182 



White-breasted kingfisher, 4, 86 



Widgeon, 8 



Woodpecker, golden-backed, 84-88 



Wren, i, 219 



Wren-warbler, ashy, 222, 223 



Wren-warbler, Indian, 219-222 



Wryneck, 84 



