INDEX. 



365 



Nest, Curious lining of an Oyster-catcher's, 193 



Position of a Grouse's, 150 



,, of a Spotted Fly- 



catcher's, 196 



Situations for a Pied Wagtail's, 



196, 228 



Decoration of a Chaffinch's, 184 



High Situation of a Swallow's, 328 



How a Rabbit hides its, 177, 180 



Jay's, 224 



Kestrel's Eggs in Raven's, 193 



Merlin's, 141 



Moving a Gray Wagtail's, 200 



of St. Kilda Wren, 71 



Ospreys, 194 



Peculiar Position of a Blackbird's, 264 



Photographing a Shrike on, 200 



Rook stealing Sticks from a Heron's, 190 



Wood Wren's, 223, 224 



Nesting-Box, Story of a, 189 

 Nesting-places, Curious, 196 

 Nests, Adaptation of Old, 192 



Blue Tit's, 223 



" Cock's," of Common Wren, 186 



Down-lining of Ducks', 260 



Extravagance in building, 192 



Forked- tailed Petrel's, 64 



House Martin's, 188 



How Birds sit on their, 198 



near London, 222 



Old, Adapted by Kestrel, 192 



Photographing, in High Hedges, 352 



,, in Trees, 344, 346, 348 



Poor accommodation of some, 206 



Robins', in Curious Situations, 196 



Rooks stealing Sticks from each 



others, 190 



Sand Martins', 188 



Simultaneous building of, 184 



Spare, 186 



Sparrow's, stolen by Starlings, 190 



Spotted Flycatcher's, 223 



Variation of Size of, 188 



Waterhen's Spare, 186 



Well and badly hidden, 188 



Nets, Clap, How worked, 281 



Used for catching Birds, 276 



Netting a Hare, 173, 174, 175 



Newspaper Reporters, Disappointment of. 5 



Night in a Cleit, 99 



on Deck, 133 



Nightingales, Trapping of, 290 



Southern Flight of, 292 



Nightjar, Sleeping habit of. 245 

 Nurse, Brave, 132 

 Notes of Curlew, 212 



of Roseate Tern, 256 



Notion, Curious, in Regard to Photography, 

 326 



Oar, Broken, 122 



Oban, Early Morning Wait at, 133 

 Offering My Brother for Sale, 49 

 Oil from a Dead Whale, 46 



Squirted by Forked-tailed Petrels, 80 ; by 



Fulmar Petrel, 115, 119 

 Ornithologists, Startler for, 24 

 Orphans, How cared for at St. Kilda, 53 

 Ospreys at Home, 194 

 Owl carrying its Prey, 245 



mobbed by Small Birds, 245 



Photographing, by Flashlight, 244 



Procuring Food by Day, 244 



Owls, Where they Sleep, 244 

 Oyster-catcher's Nest, Curious lining of an, 

 193 



Paradise of British Ornithologists, 1 

 Parliament, St. Kilda, 53 

 Parsley, Hare's Love of, 177 



Parting with Friends, 129 

 Passengers on a Highland Boat 311 

 Partridges, Call-Notes of, 172 



Curious Temper of, 170 



Poaching of, 171 



Protection of, 171 



"Jugging" of, 170 



Paying People to Photograph them, 50 

 Peat-Diggers, 319 

 Peewit, Habits of, 212 

 Perches of Sleeping Birds, 232 

 Peregrine, Keeping a, oft' Her Eggs, 138 



Notes of, 136 



Robbing Terns, 258 



Story of, 138 



Trying to shoot, 136 



Wing- Power of, 138 



Peregrine's Love of an Old Breeding Haunt. 



138 



Peregrines, Trying to shoot a Pair of, 141 

 Petrels, Breeding Burrows and Habits of, 244 



Fulmar (see Fulmar Petrel) 



Pheasant-Breeding, 164, 166 



Pheasants, Eggs of, stolen by Rooks, 146 



,, Variation in Colour of, 166 



Favourite Roost, 240 



Great theft of Young 168 



How Young are reared, 168 



Where they sleep, 247 



Young, and Hawks, 142 



Photograph of Cormorants, Swimming for, 348 

 Photographer and Camera falling into a 

 Pond, 358 



Falling through a Floor, 8 



Photographic Apparatus, Our, 334 

 Photographing Adder, 140 



Birds by Night, Difficulties of, 247 



Birds' Nests in High Hedges, 352 



Birds on Snow, 355 



Blackbirds' feeding their Young, 213 



from Boats, 350 



Fulmar Petrel, 108, 115 



Gray Wagtail on her Nest, 200 



Insects, 358 



in Water, 352 



Jay feeding her Young, 224 



Kingfisher, 355 



Moth by Flashlight, 247 



Nests in Trees, 344 



Dangers and Difficulties 



of, 346, 348 



Owl by Flashlight, 244 



St. Kilda Wren, 74 



Wren's Nest by Reflected 



Light, 75 



Shrike on her Nest, 200 



Solan Geese, Danger of, 2t> 



Swallows by Flashlight, 240 



,, on Telegraph Wire, 350 



Thrush at Roost, 234 



under Difficulties, 110 



Water Voles, 354 



Wild Animals, 354 



Duck, 358 



with Camera on Stilts, 352 



Young Eider, 262 



Shags, 104 



Photographs, Sitting up all Night for, 316 



How we take our, 334 



Photography, Curious Notions about 326 



Dangers of Cliff, 341 



Physical Degeneracy, 32 



Piety of St. Kildans, 11 



Picture, A Dearly-Bought, 228 



Pigeon, How a Homer, saved a Child's Life, 



324 

 Plover, Ringed, Habits of, 208 



,, Young of, 208 



Plovers, Position of Eggs of, 206 

 Where they sleep, 231 



