180 



BIED NOTES 



Nuthatch, its love of bacon, 23 



courage of, 24 



presumptively a murderer, 24 



dreaded by other birds, 40, 173 

 Nuthatch, its tameness, 48 



different sizes of male and fe- 

 male, 78 



feeding ceremonies of, 78 



asking to be fed by blue tit, 83 



its presence in Devonshire, 143 



OLD JOE, the chaffinch, 65 



his death, 71 



Ormerod, Miss, on sparrows and 



aphides, 82, 100 

 Owl Song,' 95 

 Owls, 6 



hooting in daytime, 75 



note of, 95 



PARASITES on birds, 161 



' Peeping ' or piping of young birds, 



98 



Pied woodpeckers, 73, 75 

 Pledging healths, origin of, 117 

 Plovers in frost, 2, 109 

 Property, sense of, in blue tits, 18 



robins, 89 

 Protective colouring of nests, 28, 



52, 132, 133 



BIVEB SID, the, 1, G 

 ' River, The,' 9 



Robin, tameness of, 13, 7G, 105, 

 159, 167 



its sense of colour-protection, 

 14, 29, 71 



exceptional nature of, 25 



warning note of, 26 



understood by other birds, 

 39 



various notes of, 30, 85 



its jealousy, 40 



its musical sensitiveness, 41, 142 



Robin, as companion of man, 42, 

 125 



its love of red, 71, 103 



singing of young taught, 80 



beautiful nest of, 84 



pugnacity of, 89, 91 



startled by piebald sparrow, 92 



courting dance of, 92, 145 



calling note of, 85, 96 



its confidences, 100, 102, 128 



frightened by heron, 105 



friendliness of, 42, 111 



paternal severity of, 113 



blue tit scared by, 114 



nest of, raided, 119 



concealment of young by, 120, 

 160 



understanding of human ges- 

 tures by, 125 



division of brood of, between the 

 parents, 150, 158, 170 



admiration of beauty, 157 



not puzzled by glass, 168 



maternal anxieties, 160 



' Spectacles ' and her mate, 170 



self-admiration, 170 



' Bobinette's ' affection, 170 



her study of a new dress, 174 

 Rooks, utilisation of Sunday by, 



60-63 

 - instruction in nest-building 



given by, 79 



taking lime-twigs for nest- 

 building, 172 

 ' Rose,' 87 



SCOLDING by blue tit, 37 



by golden-crested wren, 38 



by wren, 101 

 Sid, the river, 1, 6 



Singing, competitive, among birds, 

 42 



taught by robins to their young, 

 136 



Snails, breaking of, by thrush, 43 

 Snow, birds in, 2, 36, 129 



