382 
Black Guillemot, Its habit o 
fish for long time in bill 
— Manner of swallowing fish of, 69 
— Fighting of the, 69; may be passing 
into a sport, 70, 713 will fight 
with fish in the bill, 71, 72 
— Wings only used by, in diving, 72 
— Luminous appearance of, under 
water, 72, 204 
— Manner of feeding young of, 72, 73 
— Cry of, 128 
— Coloration of buccal cavity of, 128, 
129; suggested explanation of, 
129-31 
— Eats seaweed, 203 
— Wing-patches of, conspicuous under 
water, 203 
— Carries one fish at a time, 301, 302 
—- Robbed by arctic skua, 302 
Black-headed Gull, Relations of, with 
peewit, 10 
Books, The hundred best, 110 
Brodby, Mrs., Missed as a landlady, 
190, 191 
— Pious hope in regard to, 191 
rying 
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Cheltenham Corporation, Ducks done 
away with by the, at Pittville, 65-7 
Christianity, Mock trials as between, 
and paganism, by prejudiced Chris- 
tian authors, 256 
Collector, the, Does more harm than 
the sportsman, 144, 145 
— Goal of the, extermination, 145 
— The biggest-record Thug, 145 
— His love of Nature, 145 
Common Gull, is like common sense, 13 
— Makes best resistance to arctic skua, 
13,14 
— A young Christian nationality, 14 
Common Seals seen leaping out of the 
water, 57, 58 
— Luminous appearance of, under 
water, 175, 204 
— Manner of swimming under water 
of, 175 
— A splendid sight of, 213 
— As seen under different circumstances, 
213, 214 
— Unorthodox attitudes of, 214, 226, 
227 
— Odd actions of, 214, 215, 227 
INDEX 
Common Seals, Animals of a finely- 
touched spirit, 215 
— Playing with a spar, 216 
— Practical joking of, 217, 322 
— A dormitory of, 225, 226 
— Difference in size, etc., of, 229 
— Sentinels not posted by, 229, 304, 
305, 306 
— Resemblance of, to a man, 230 
— At the chosen rock, 231, 259 
— Bed-times of, not governed by the 
tide, 234 
— Perpendicular attitude of, in water, 
257» 297, 298 
— Length of submersions of, 257, 258 
— Habit of opening mouth of, 258, 
259 
a Sleep floating in the sea, 259, 260; 
and under the water, 297, 298 
— Makes the sea a rock, 260 
— A great sleeper, 260, 298 
— Sporting of, with seaweed, 321, 322 
— Should be called phoca Antiguarius, 
325 
— Liking shown for special rocks by, 
330-33, 3453 or particular places 
upon them, 345, 346 
— Use made of seaweed by, 332 
— Activity of, in water, 335, 3363 but 
surpassed by that of the otariida, 
337-41 3 difficulty of understand- 
ing this and parallel cases, 336-41 
— Sporting together of, in sea, 34.6, 347 
— Eat fish in a playful manner, 347 
— Author’s observations on, collated 
with those of the late Dr. Edmond- 
stone, 373-9 
— Are governed by the law of practic- 
ability, 379 
Crouching, Habit of, in birds may have 
preceded that of flying, 6, 7; or 
have been resorted to owing to weak 
flight, 7 
— Habit of, in young skuas, terns, gulls, 
peewits, etc.. 1973 and in stone- 
curlew through life, as supposed, 6, 
197 
Cuckoo, Brilliancy of mouth-cavity in, 
131, 1323 suggested explanation of 
this through natural selection, 131, 
132 
— Actions of young in nest when dis- 
turbed, 132 
Curlew, A complaining shadow, 1 
