INDEX 



323 



Seed, prodigal provision of, 252 

 Seed awaiting opportunity, 25 

 Seed, vitality of, 24 

 Sexual selection, 98 

 Siskin, 19 

 Snails, 85 

 Snowdrop, 39 

 Sparrow's holiday, 216 

 Starling, feeding, 58 

 Starling, song of, 71 

 Starling, in autumn, 265 

 Swallows, 260 

 Swallows in caves, 263 

 Swan, wild, 306 



Terns' eggs sold as plovers' 



eggs, 91 

 Terns' nesting-places, 134 



Thrush, nest of, 145 

 Tits' love of suet, 69 

 Tits nesting in box, 108 

 Tits and buds, 115 

 Tree-sparrow, 50 

 Tree-creeper, 18, 313 

 Trout, cunning of, 61 

 Trout and flies, 129 

 Trout in isolated lochs, 157 



Wasps, plagues of, 204 

 Wasps' nest-building, 206 

 Wasps and ripe fruit, 208 

 Water-vole, 222 

 Water thrushes, 166 

 Wild cats, 119 

 Winter play of birds, 312 

 Wood lark, 27 



