INDEX. 



211 



THRUSH", conspicuous in winter, 

 59 ; family cares, 74 84 ; fight- 

 ing, 84 ; betraying young by 

 warning note, 90 ; return to song, 

 96 ; finding worms, 149 



TITS, coming to bird-table, 26 ; to 

 swinging food, 27 ; migrating, 56 



TOAD in rock, 188 



TOADFLAX, 189 



TOMTIT. See BLUE TIT. 



TREE-CREEPERS, migrating, 56 



TREE-PIPITS, migrating, 162 



TREES washed by rain, 105 



TROUT and mosquito, 1 1 



TURNIPS, hoodie-crows, and sheep, 



TURTLEDOVF, return in spring, 77, 

 80 ; strong flight, 80 



VIOLET under snow, 32 



VIPER " swallowing young," 188 



W 



WAGTAIL, warning wife, 89 ; and 



merlin, 22 

 WARBLERS migrate easily, 88 ; nests 



easily found, 90 

 WASP, killing queen wasps, 47 ; 



building the city, 48 ; hunting 



flies, 152; defective sight, 152; 



searching for caterpillars, 153 ; 



intelligence of, 153, 154 ; merits 



and faults, 155 

 WAXWING, shot, 7 

 WEATHER omens from birds, 193 



WHEAT, asylum for wild life, 131 



WHEATEAR, arrival, 54 ; migrat- 

 ing, 162 



WH INC HAT and Stonechat, 71 ; 

 young in harvest-field, 134 ; stay- 

 ing for winter, 141 



WHITE BUTTERFLY, the "first," 

 46 



WHITETHROAT, late singing, etc., 

 113; wandering, 136 



W HOOPER SWANS, migrating, 136 



WILD-DUCK, wandering, 9 ; shoot- 

 ing, 10 ; paired, 32 ; early egg 

 of, 52 ; drive away young, 176 



WILD FLOWERS in December, 189 



ROSE, useful, 31 



WILLOW in mild December, 202 



WILLOW WARBLER, wandering, 

 136 ; speed of flight, 142 ; chas- 

 ing other birds, 142 ; returning, 

 164 



WREN. See WILLOW WARB- 

 LER. 



WINTER, early warnings of, 118 



MOTH, 5, 190 



WOODCOCK, arrival, 168, 172 



WOODPECKERS drive off young, 199 



WOODPIGEONS, early nesting, 13 ; 

 keeper's perquisite, 18 j arrival, 

 158 



WREN, in spring, 58 ; in mild De- 

 cember, 203 ; like snipe, 1 6 



YARROW, in December, 189 

 VELI.OWHAMMER, in early spring, 

 58 ; and stoat, 66 ; singing late, 

 96, 113 ; migrating, 161 ; court- 

 ing in autumn, 186 

 YEW, useful, 31 



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