INDEX. 



209 



and fieldfare, 70 ; conservative, 

 71 ; music, 95 

 NIGHTJAR, migration delayed, 77 



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OIL-BEETLE in spring, 59 



OTTER visiting trout stream, 14 : 



mysterious, 15 

 OWLS, much leather, little bird, 



174; swallowing rat, 174; mobbed 



by birds, 175 

 OXLTP and PRIMROSE, 63 



PALLAS'S GREAT GREY SHRIKE, 

 shot, 8 



PARTRIDGE pairing, 6, 32 ; laying 

 time, 64 ; and bad weather, 97 ; 

 on "sprung" eggs, 98; young 

 killed by cutters, IO2 ; mother 

 with young, 109 ; precocious 

 fliers, no; prospects of season, 

 1 20 ; incubation prolonged, 121 ; 

 and gamekeeper, 122 ; in corn, 

 131 ; memories of " drive," 132 ; 

 at harvest, 134 ; pairing in De- 

 cember, 203 



PEACOCK BUTTERFLY, in Septem- 

 ber, 155 



PEEWIT. See PLOVER. 



PEREGRINE, shot, 7 ; arrival, 159 



PHEASANT, in spring, 32 ; laying- 

 time, 64; killed by hedgehog, 

 67 ; different kinds of, 94 ; pair- 

 ing in December, 203 



PIGEON, male, driving hen to nest, 

 52 ; chased by sparrow, yet out- 

 flying hawk, 143 



PINES, pollen of, 50 



PINKFOOTED GEESE and weather, 

 193 ; pairing, 33 



PIPITS migrating, 56, loi 



PLANTS, struggle of, 34 



PLOVERS, GOLDEN, take alarm 

 from peewit, 99 ; arrival, 137 



i PLOVERS (peewits) and Merlin, 23 ; 

 fancy flying, 24; egg-stealing 

 gulls, 75, 76 ; alarm golden 

 plover, 99 ; gathering of young, 

 101 ; arrival, 137, 161, 172 ; 

 descending into field, 138 ; find- 

 ing worms and robbed by gulls, 

 149 ; in mild December, 204 



i POPLAR, WHITE. See ABELE. 



I POPPY, fixed blush of old summer, 

 113; and tits, 127; in Decem- 

 ber, 189 



I POTATO working during winter, 185 



i PRIMROSE, early, for Queen's 

 wreath, 32 ; Primrose Day, 61 ; 

 beauty of, 62 ; disorderly flo-.ver, 

 62 



! PUFFIN, dead on shore, 37 



RABBITS, bad time, 18 ; in corn, 

 131 ; killed at harvest, 134 



RAT, cunning of, 92 ; in corn, 131 



killed, 134 



| RAZOR-BILL, dead on shore, 37 

 j RED ADMIRAL BUTTERFLY, in 



September, 155 



j RED-DEER, migrating in Kashmir, 

 78 



REDLEGGED PARTRIDGE, laying 

 time, 64 



REDSHANK alarms other birds, 99 



REDSTART migrating, 160 



REDWING, in winter, 4 ; starved, 

 29 ; arrival, 162, 194 



RINGDOVE. See WOODPIGEON. 



RING OUZEL, migrating, 168, 171 



ROBIN, nesting, 13 ; along stream 

 bank, 16 ; contrast to blackbird, 

 17 ; familiar, 91 ; feeding young 

 thrushes, 125 ; young, eaten by 

 thrush, 125 ; cnittering autumn 

 note, 126 ; finding worms, 149 ; 

 migrating, 161 ; song, 165 ; help- 

 ing to mob owl, 175, 176; driv- 

 ing off young, 199 



ROOK and cornstack, 40 ; return to 

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