INDEX 



Tits, a feature of Icklingham, 



194 

 Tree-pipit, voice of, like the 



skylark's, 1 12 

 Tuddenham, observations on 



pair of dabchicks at, 296- 



306 



Voice, importance of the, in 

 classification, 112, 113 



Water-wagtail, courting ac- 

 tions of male, 113, 114; 

 similarity in, to those of 

 pheasant, 114 



Nest of, in that of song-thrush, 

 213 

 . Hen alone seems to incubate, 

 213 



Alternates eating with build- 

 ing, 213, 214 



Open bills of young, like 

 Venetian glass vases, 214 



Collects a number of flies, &c., 

 for young, 214 



Beauty of maternal love as 

 exemplified by, 214 



Skill of, in collecting flies, 

 215, 216 

 Weather, the, and the cries of 



birds, 6, 7 

 Wheatear, characteristic of the 

 steppes of Icklingham, 106 



Arrival of first pair of, 106 



Arrives in splendid plumage, 

 106 



335 



Wheatear {co7itiiiued) — 

 Ways of the male, 106, 107 

 Plumage of male, 114, 115 

 Courtship of male, 107, 114 

 Curious sexual actionsofmale, 

 175. 176 

 Wood-pigeons, cooing of, 8, 9 

 Roosting of, 9, 10, 12, 13 

 Emotions raised by rushing 

 sound of wings of, 9, 10 ; 

 remarks as to this, 10-12 

 Numbers of, in West Suffolk, 



.12, 13 

 Pigeon-trees made by, 1 3 

 Less characteristic coo of, 74, 



.75 

 Single one flying with star- 

 lings, 127 

 Partial paralysis produced in, 

 by sudden fright, 279, 

 280 

 Words\yorth, his "intimations 

 of immortality" due to the 

 laws of inheritance, 10, 

 II 

 No evidence contained in the 

 famous ode of, 11, 12 

 Wren, house-hunting of, 13, 14 

 Food of, in winter, 14 

 Seen to enter long-tailed tit's 

 nest in absence of owner, 

 204, 205 



Ypecaha rails, screaming 

 dances of, referred to, 



285 



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