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INDEX 



Rat-bird, 69 

 Ratel, Indian, 205 

 Redbreast, 247 

 Redstart, Indian, 160-4 

 Rhamnus, 139 

 Rhipidura albifyontata, 174 

 Rynchope alhicolHs, 112 

 Robin, 46, 47 

 Robin, Indian, 204 

 Robinson, Kay, loi 



— Phil, 3, 33. 57, 143 

 Roller, 33, 75, 171 

 Rook, 107, 108 



Roosting of bee-eaters, 51-5 



Salvadori, 150 

 Sand-martin, 237, 254 



Indian, 237-42 



Sandpiper, common, iii, 114 

 Sanyal, Babu R. P., 98 

 Safh Bhai, 220, 228, 233 

 Scavengers, bird, 104, 105 



in-waiting, 21-7 



Sciurus palmarum, 62-7, 73 



Screech owl, 256 



Seagull, 104-g 



Selection, natural, 11, 59, 71, 



79-82, 93, 122, 131, 163, 181, 



205 

 Selection, sexual, 157, 158, 163 

 Selous, Edmund, 71, 195,196,209 

 Selous, F. C, 60 

 " Seven Sisters," 15, 117, 220, 



233 

 Sexual dimorphism, 182 



— selection, 157, 158, 163 

 Shama, 8 



Shikra, 42, 97, 230, 248, 249 

 Shrike, 34, 45-50 



— bay-backed, 49, 50 



— Indian grey, 48-50 



— rufous-backed, 48-50 



Siphia hyperythra, 180 



— parva, 180 

 Sirkeev cuckoo, 14 

 Sitta castaneiventns, 173 

 Skimmer, Indian, 112 

 Skunk, 204, 205 



Some Indian Friends and Ac- 

 quaintances, 10 

 Songbirds, 7 

 Songs of Birds, The, 58 

 " Son of the marshes," 108 

 Sparrow, 255 



— of Scripture, 18 



hawk, 39, 40, 41, 218 



Spectacle bird, 138 

 Speculum Mundi, 103 

 Spider, common garden, 175 

 Spizcstus nepalensis, 42 

 Squirrel, Indian striped, 62, 67, 



73, 212, 228 

 Stag beetle, 186 

 Starling, 8, 9 



— pied, 197-201 



— rosy, 192-6, 209 

 Sterna bergii, 113 



— melanogaster , H2 



— seena, 112 

 Sterndale, 95 

 Sturnopastor contra, 197, 201 



— superciliaris, 199 

 Stolzman, 158 

 Stoparola albicaudata, 181 



— melanops, 181 

 Stork, 166 



Struggle for existence, 81^^ 

 Sunbird, 4, 8, 175 

 Sunset, birds at, 253-7 

 Swadeshi bird, 154-9 

 Swallow, 45, 173 



— wire- tailed, 173 

 Swamp-hen, 84 

 Swan,'!|99-io3 



