322 



Foxes of the hills, 177 

 Foxes, their prey, 179 



INDEX 



Gnats, armature, 35-167 



Golden-crested wren, 18 



Greenfinch and seed, 1 16 



Groundsel seed, 26 



Grouse, 195 



Gulls, disgorging powers of, 76 



Gulls as garbage feeders, 31, 72 



Gulls as divers, 76 



Gulls, nesting-places of, 75 



Hares, 78 



Hares, mode of reproduction 



of, 81 



Hawks in town, 294 

 Holly and its armature, 316 

 Hooded Crow, 21 

 House Martin's nest, 262 

 House Sparrow, 49, 113 

 Humble-bee, hibernation, 301 

 Humble-bee, colony forming 



305 



Insects and frost, 35 

 Isolated waters, stocking of, 

 161 



Kestrel in town, 295 

 Kestrel, prey of, 297 

 Kittiwake, 77 



Lapwing's eggs, 91 

 Lapwing's enticements, 93 



Manure and birds, 29 

 Microscopic vision of birds, 27 



Midge, 33 

 Mountain Hare, 80 

 Mushrooms, edible, but not 

 eaten, 241 



Nest-building, 144 

 Nest-building of Blackbird, 147 

 Nest of Blackheaded Gull, 74 

 Nest of Blue Tit, 107 

 Nest of House Martin, 262 

 Nest of House Sparrow, 49 

 Nest of Kittiwake, 77 

 Nest of Lapwing, 91 

 Nest of Robin, 118 

 Nest of Sand Martin, 261 

 Nest of Terns, 134 

 Nest of Thrush, 145 



Ova, dispersal of, 159 

 Plovers' eggs, 91 



Rain and hill sculpture, 100 

 Red-deer calves, 122 

 Red-deer, tameness of calves, 



126 



Red-deer forming harem, 280 

 Red-deer in summer, 173 

 Ring-plover in wind, 285 

 Robin fights, 56 

 Robin courtships, 95 

 Robin nesting, 118 

 Rookery, 44 

 Rook shooting, 139 



Sand Martin's nest, 261 

 Sand Martin and vermin, 32 

 Seed dispersal, 250 



