INDEX 



181 



Soaring of martins, 33 



birds of passage, 45 

 ' Song of the Dying Leaves,' 67 

 Sparrow, ingenuity of, in nest 

 building, 29 



aphides eaten by, 51, 82, 100 



piebald, robin's astonishment 

 at, 92 



eaten by heron, 107 

 Spotted woodpecker, 75 

 Starling, imitative, 136-138, 142 

 Starlings, frozen out, 3 



Still the Same,' 35 



Storing of food by cole tit doubted, 



127, 164 



Storms, electrical and nervous, 8 

 String made use of by sparrows, 28 

 Sunday, recognition of, by rooks, 



60-63 



by other birds, 60, 62, 99 



Swallow, or martin, feeding young, 



56, 118, 153 

 Swallowing, difficulty of, in young 



birds, 139 

 Sycamore blossoms, use of, in birds' 



nests, 133 



TAHENESS in birds, peril of, 13, 99 

 Tapping at window by blue tit, 115, 



125, 127, 155 

 ' Tapping Tom,' 154, 171 

 Tawny owl, 94 

 ' Thomas and Thomasina,' the 



blue tits, 113 

 Thrush, snails eaten by, 43 



as tool user, 44 



sense of hearing in, 90 



yellow crocuses eaten by, 109 



fall of nest of, 149 



imitative powers of, 164, 165 

 Tits, antagonism between different 



kinds of, 19, 112, 131 



their autumnal return from the 

 country, 63 



' Tit-willow,' the cole tit, 123 



his death, 127 

 Tragedies on the river, 8 



among the birds, 25, 81, 119, 134 

 ' Twigging,' lessons needed in, 80 



VIGOUK of males, lively colouring 

 due to, 56 



Vision, varying power of, in differ- 

 ent birds, 17, 158 



Voice, human, appreciation of by 

 robins, 15, 41 



by nightingale, 147 



WAGTAIL, yellow, 1 



imitation of, by flycatcher, 136 



three kinds of, together, 2 



grey, 88 



Walnuts, theft of, by rooks, 61, 63 

 Warning note of robin, 26 



understood by other birds, 

 39 



' Weeping ' of birds, 98 

 White plate, birds' dread of, 46 

 Whitethroat and blackcap, singing 



match between, 42 

 Willow twigs made use of by build- 

 ing rooks, 28 

 ' Winter sunshine,' 130 

 Woodpecker, green, 4 

 blind, 163 



spotted, 73, 75 

 Wren, scolding by, 101 



- golden-crested, sec Golden- 

 crested wren 



YAFFLE,' imitated by starling, 138 

 Yellow crocuses eaten by thrush, 



109 

 wagtail imitated by flycatcher, 



136 

 1 Yiking,' 173 



