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INDEX. 



rookery, 41 ; arrival, 126, 137 ; 

 and com, 139, 148 ; migrating, 

 143, 158, 168, 171, 173 ; as the 

 farmer's "friend," 191 ; noise at 

 roosting-time, 192 ; numerous, 



*95 



ROSES in November, 177, 181 



SALLOW and its guests, 50 

 SAND-MARTIN, arrival, 54 ; earlier 



than house-martin, 73 ; in bad 



weather, 74 J in November, 1 78, 



182 



SANDPIPER, arrival, 54 

 SATIN* MOTH, mischief of, and 



weather, 130; eggs, 130 

 SEAGULLS. See GULLS. 

 SEDGEWARBLER, returning to same 



bush, 72 

 SHEEP, 38 

 SHELDRAKE, urging female to nest, 



SHORTEARED OWL, arrival, 168 ; 

 cannot fly against wind, 1 74 



SISKIN, migrating, 161, 171 



SKYLARK, courtship, 35 ; fighting, 

 35 ; married, 36 ; in summer and 

 winter, 58 ; readiness to sing, 

 96 ; take alarm from snipe, 99 ; 

 in July, 113 ; few killed in Eng- 

 land, 157 ; migrating, 158, 161, 

 172; song in autumn, 165 ; and 

 the poets, 165 ; foreign, and 

 hawks, 1 80 ; and dog, 180 : and 

 merlin, 22 



SNIPE, give alarm to larks, 99; 

 arrival, 168 ; in winter, 16 



SONG - THRUSH, early egg. 52 ; 

 killed by stoat, 65 ; eating young 

 birds, 68; arrival, 158; song in 

 autumn, 165 ; winter song, 203 



SPARROW, gluttony of, 25 ; afraid 

 of string, 26 ; mortality of, 83 ; 

 and house-martin, 85 ; to protect 

 martins from, 87 ; and man, 92 ; 

 young, 93 ; washed by min, 106 ; 



migrating to cornfields, 114, 115 ; 

 chased by willow wren, and 

 chasing pigeon, 143 ; mobbing 

 owl, 175 



SPARROW-HAWK, return of, 1 19 ; 

 wandering alone, 198 



SPEEDWELL, "Buxbaum's Vero- 

 nica," 59 



SPOONBILL, 157 



SPRING, in winter, I ; first false 

 start, 4 ; advance, 13 ; fever, 32 ; 

 small life in, 5, 51, 59 ; at ni^ht, 

 60 ; choir of, 114 ; flowers, 189 ; 

 foretaste in December, 200 



STARLING, singing in winter, 5; 

 by frozen stream, 1 6 ; catching 

 insects, 5 2 5 migrating, 55 > * m ~ 

 mature, 57 ; collecting, 93 ; plu- 

 mage, 93 ; different kinds of, 94 ; 

 music, 95 ; return of song, 96 ; 

 gathering, IOI, 114, 118; in 

 roof, 115 ; robbed by gulls, 148 ; 

 finding food, 148 ; song, 165 ; 

 bathe in ice- water, 183 ; family 

 habits, 20O 



.STOAT, ravages of, 65 ; hard to 

 catch up a tree, 66 



STONECHAT and Whinchat, 70 ; 

 and dog, 181 



SUMMER hides bird life, 58 ; noisy 

 season, 93 ; conceals her age, 

 112 ; last smiles of, 151 



SWALLOW, arrival, 54, 60 ; earlier 

 than house-martin, 74 ; in bad 

 weather, 74, 81 ; model shape 

 of, 82 ; mortality of, 82, 145 ; 

 migrate easily, 88 ; in bad 

 autumn, 117 ; pretty family 

 party, 127 ; assembling, 137 ; 

 lingering, 144, 158; departing, 

 158, 161 ; "chimney" swallow, 

 180; in November, 182; "hiber- 

 nating," 187, 1 88 



SWANS, effect of weather on, I, 

 54; incubation prolonged, 121 ; 

 moulting late, 123 ; wild, 136 



SWIFT, earlier than house-martins, 

 74 ; departure, 140 ; speed of 

 flight, 141 



