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INDEX. 



Dippers, Difficulty of Photographing, 



, Strange Behaviour of, 24, 26 



Dove, Ring, 11 



, Stock, Curious Nesting Places 



Chosen by the, 64 



, Turtle, 11 



Doves, Rock, 260 



, Stock, 260 



Dragonflies, 193 



Drink, How Doves, 11 



Duck, Wild, Feeding Habits of, 266 



Ducks and Moulting, 78 



, Wild, and Wind, 268 



, , in Winter, 268 



Eggs, Artificial, and Peewits, 50 



, Birds', 48 



, Changing of Birds', 47 



Eider Duck and Lesser Black-backed 



Gull, 68 



, Devotion of, 236 



, Tameness of, 235 



Entomology and Insanity, 121 

 Experiments on Birds with Artificial 



Eggs, 48 



Face, Human, and Birds, 45 

 Falcon, Peregrine, 260 

 Fame Islands and Sea Fowl, 234 

 Fieldfares and Hedge Fruit, 263 

 Fish Killed by Hard Frost, 276 

 Food, Bird, Searching for, In Winter, 

 264 



for Tits, 285 



of Birds in Winter, 281 



Hooded Crows in Winter, 277 



Pheasants in Winter, 270 



Red Grouse in Winter, 270 



Wood Pigeon in Severe 



Weather, 271 



to Give Birds in Winter, 282 



Friendships, Strange, 284 



Frog, Strange Behaviour of a, 87 



Gamekeepers and Friendship, 101 

 Gannets at Home, 228 



, Flight of, 227 



, Stalking, 226 



Goats, Nimbleness of, 232 



Grebe, Great Crested, Photographing a, 



216 

 , , Teaching Young to Dive, 



222 



, , Wariness of, 218 



Greenfinches and Sunflower Seeds, 290 



in Winter, 290 



, Selfishness of, 10 



Grouse, Red, a Close Sitter, 96 



and Advice to Runaway Hus- 



band 



93 



Education. 94 



Hard Winters 270 



Sport, 92 



How Chicks Scatter. 97 

 . Notes of, 92 

 , , and Human Voice, 



Grouse, Red, Shot In Mistake for Wood 

 Pigeons, 270 



Guillemot, Common, 230 



, , Affection of, 233 



, , and her Egg, 234 



Gull, Black-headed, Breeding Haunts 

 of. 207 



, Common, and Nesting Site, 66 



, Lesser Black Backed, 68 



, , Attacking a Man, 



237 



, , Swallowing Capa- 

 city of, 237 



, Photographing a Common, 258 



, Wariness of a Common 260 



Gulls, Common, Intelligence of, 257 



Gymnastic Feats of Reed Sparrow, 192 



Hares Going to Feed, 155 



Hawk, Sparrow, Building her Nest, 158 



, , Food of, 158 



, , Photographing a, 153 



Hearing, Acuteness of, in Birds, 248 

 Heat of a Bird's Body, 48 

 Hibernation of Wasps, 141 

 Hiding-place, How to Make a, 100 

 Honey an Enticing Food for Butterflies, 

 127 



and Bluebottle, 128 



House, Building a Stone, to Hide in, ^44 

 , Sod, Building a, 33 



Incubation of Twite, 106 



Individuality of Birds, 203 



Insect Life, Seasonal Fluctuations of, 



132 

 Insects and Birds, 68 



, Utility of, 143 



Intelligence of Jackdaws, 163 



Jackdaws and their Breeding Haunts, 



162 

 , Intelligence of, 163 



in Winter, 280 



Jay, 8 



Caught by Stoat, 80 



Kittiwakes at Home, 230 



Lapwing, 111 

 -, Habi 



, its of, 112 



, Strange Accident to, 77 



Loach Caught by Bullhead, 85 

 Loopers, 137 



Magpie, Calling a, 156 

 Martin, House, 178 



, , Hemispherical Nest of a, 63 



Maternal Passion, 50 

 Merganser, Red-breasted, 109 

 Merlin, Boldness of, 35 



, Fate of Eggs of a, 37 



, Finding Nest of a, 32 



, Photographing a, 34 



Mimicry, 134 



