INDEX 



327 



Heron, cries, &c., uttered by, 



72, 73, 75, 76, 11, 79 

 Nuptial flight of, -jz^ b'o, 81 

 Uncouth appearance of, 73, 



74, 81, 82 

 Ordinary flight of, 74 

 Domestic habits of, 72-80 

 Change on the nest, the, 75- 



78 

 Sits firm in a hurricane, 78, 79 

 A close sitter, 79 

 Watchfulness of, 79, 80 

 Descent of pair on to nest, 



80 

 Can rise with single flap, 82 

 Eats frogs, moles, mice, 



shrews, &c., 82, 83 

 Its manner of catching and 



eating fish, 83, 84, 119 

 Delicacy of beak, 84 

 Beak of, compared with human 



hand, 84 

 Serratures in beak, 84 

 Serrated claw of, how used, 



84-86 

 Management of large eel by, 



85,86 

 Supposed filament of, 86 

 Stalks his prey, 87 

 Settling on nest, 87, 88 

 Sometimes overbalances in 



catching fish, &c., 83 

 Heronry, a, near Icklingham, 



72 

 The awakening of the, 72, 73 

 Historians, their song to an old 



tune, 231 

 Hooded-Crow, common in West 



Suflblk during winter, 51 

 Called " carrion crow " l3y the 



people, 51 

 Feeding habits of, 51, 52, 55 

 Haunt open warren lands, 5 1 

 Mingle with rooks, 52, 58 

 Disagreements of, with rooks, 



52-54 

 Fighting methods of, 54 



Hooded-Crow {continued) — 

 Rules of precedence of, when 



feeding in company, 53 

 Gregarious instincts of, com- 

 pared with those of rooks, 



54, 55 

 May sometimes roost with 



rooks, 55 

 Eats thistle roots, 56 

 Mysterious relations of, with 



rooks, 58-60 

 One seen flying with peewits, 



127 

 House-Martin, domestic habits 



of, 239-259 

 Nest building of, 240-243, 



246-248 

 Musical meetings of, 242-244, 



253, 256 

 Gilbert White's reference to 



slow rate of building of, 



243, 249 ; his explanation of 



this not the true one, 243, 



249 



Possible intercommunal mar- 

 riages of, 244, 245 



Sexual relations of, 244, 245, 

 252, 253, 255, 256, 259 



Oppressed by sparrows, 243- 

 246, 248 



Quick building of nest of, 245, 



249 



Social and communistic re- 

 lations of, 248, 250, 251, 

 252, 259 



Fighting of, 248 



Apparent inability to resist 

 sparrows, 248 



Suggested explanation of this, 

 248, 249 



Builds nest on site of old one, 

 249 ; curious fact in re- 

 lation to this, 249, 250 



Young, feeding of, 253-257 



Young, fed by regurgitation, 

 254-258 



Insects, how caught by, 258 ; 



