INDEX 



Missel-Thrush, harsh strident 

 note of, 4 

 Puts a peewit to flight, 123 

 Skirmishes of, with stone- 

 curlews, 123, 124 

 Retreats with honour, 124 

 Moorhen, haunts the river Lark, 

 261 



Pair of, built yearly in author's 

 pond, 265 



Supernumerary nests made 

 by, 265-269 



Sits in two or more nests, 

 266-269 



Bathing habits of, 267 



Special bathing - places of, 

 public and private, 267 



Pronounced habit of over- 

 building of, 269 



Destruction of its own eggs 

 by, 269-273; possible ex- 

 planation of this habit, 

 272, 273 ; may be com- 

 pared with that of the 

 cow-birds of America, 273 



Continued building of nest by, 

 during incubation and rear- 

 ing of young, 273 



Due, probably, to a blind im- 

 pulse, 273, 274 



Legs of, gartered in male 

 alone, 275 



Triple successive coloration 

 of the cere in, 275 



Difficulty of explaining this, 

 275, 276 



Precocity of young, 276, 277 



Fear of man in the newly- 

 hatched chick, 277 



Carries shell of hatched egg 

 to shore, 277 



Young, fed by dams, 277 



Young, notes of, 277, 278 



Maternal cries of, 277, 278 



Clucking note of, to call 

 young, 277, 278; and for 

 Other uses, 278 



329 



Moorhen {continued)— 

 Variety of expression in cries 



of young, 278 

 Young, sit in nest with one 



parent, 278 

 No maternal ruse employed 

 by, 181, 278, 279; mate- 

 rial for the evolution of 

 one possibly observed, 279 

 Nerves of, highly strung, 280 

 Effect of report of gun on, 



280 

 Motions, actions, &c., of, 280 

 A bundle of caprices, 280 

 Habit of flirting tail of, 280 

 Pugnacity of, 281 

 Scene in " The Rivals " acted 



by, 281 

 Warlike display of, 281-283 

 Method of fighting of, 283- 

 285 ; is essentially un- 

 aquatic, 284, 285 

 Pugnacity of, even in winter, 



281 

 Bathes only in shallow water, 



285 

 Analogy between some actions 

 of, and more developed 

 ones of Ypecaha rail, 285, 

 286 

 Nuptial antic or pose of, 287, 



288 

 Emotional hermaphroditism 



of, 288 

 Interchangeable performance 

 of nuptial rite in sexes 

 of, 288 ; bearing of this 

 on questions of nature 

 and origin of sexual dis- 

 play, and of inter-sexual 

 selection, 288, 289 ; as, 

 also, on the subliminal 

 self theory, 289 

 Myers, the late Mr. F. W. H., 

 has ignored Darwin's views 

 as to origin of musical 

 faculty in man, 10 



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