220 INDEX 



Laggar-Falcon, 71 

 Lark : the skylark, 69 



its song, 103, 104 



a pest in New Zealand, 104 



its late rising and regular song, 214, 215 



the woodlark, its song, 102 

 Lighthouses and migrants, 20, 21 

 Lion's cries, 34-37 



Magpie, 136-138 

 Mavis (sec Thrush) 

 Merle [see Blackbird) 

 Migration and overcrowding, 16 



flights of migrants, 20, 21 



mystery of migration, 21-26 



mortality among migrants, 25 



what makes " home " for a bird, 56-58 

 Mice, destruction of, by kestrel. 140 

 " Molly-hawks," 184, 185 

 Months, birds of the, 54 

 Moorhen, igg, 206, 207 



its }"oung, 208 



haunts and nest, 209 



a rat adventure, 210, 211 

 " Mother Carey's chickens,"' 173 



Night, bird-music in summer, 213, 214 

 Nightingale, migration of, 19, 20 



song of, ii 



in spring, 56 



the blackcap's similarity of song, 102 

 Nightjar {see Fern-Owl) 

 Nuthatch, 123, 124 



its nest-hole, 125 



Ossifkage, the, in India, 154 

 Owl, 133 



its utility, 134 



its ill-names, 135 



the burrowing owl, 170 



{see Fern-Owl) 

 Ox-eye {see Tit) 



