INDEX 



Antlers of Red-deer, 227 

 Antlers, reduction of size, 233 

 Antlers eaten by hinds, 234 

 Antlers, renewal, 236 

 Ants in garden, 185 

 Ants, their industry, 187 



Bees robbing flowers, 190 

 Bees, distinction of sexes, 215 

 Bees, hibernation of, 301 

 Bees, colony forming, 305 

 Birds and cold, 17 

 Birds and hunger, 17 

 Birds as housekeepers, 31 

 Birds in storm, 285 

 Blackbird fights, 55 

 Blackbird courtship, 67 

 Blackbird thefts, 113 

 Blackbird's nest, 147 

 Black- headed gulls, 28 

 Black-headed gulls' nesting- 

 places, 74 

 Blue Tits' food, 30 

 Blue Tits nesting in box, 107 

 Blood appetite of gnat, 169 

 Bramble, 246 



Bramble, possibilities of, 249 

 Brambling, 19 

 Bulbs in plant strategy, 41 



Bullfinches and buds, 116 

 Buried seed, 27 



Capercailie hen in male plu- 

 mage, 255 

 Cat as hunter, 149 

 Cats, wild, their numbers, 1 19 

 Cats, wild, ease of capture, 201 

 Charlock, 24 

 Chickweed, 26 

 Creeper, 18, 313 



Dock seed, 26 



Dipper, 162 



Drones and drunkenness, 212 



Earwig, 270 



Earwig fight with spider, 271 



Earwig brooding young, 272 



Fairy Ring mushrooms, 237 

 Female birds in male plumage, 



255 

 Ferns' spores, their universality, 



*S3 



Fish, unteachableness of, 63 

 Flocking of birds, 289 

 Flowers and competition, 40 

 Food problem of birds, 17 



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