INDEX 



Accident, An amusing, 40 



, A photograph lost by a curious, 116 



, Curious, to a mouse, 1:52 



Accidents wild animals are liable to, 121 



Advice, Final words of, 183 



Ailsa Craig and its cragsman, 99 



Ammonia as a cat scarer, 59 



, Effect of sniffing, 60 



Amusing incident in connection with a tele- 

 photo lens, 7 



Anchor threads of mussel, 177 



Anemones photographed under water, 175 



Animals, Difficulties of photographing, 4 



Ants as porters, 156 



as scavengers, 156 



and their ways, 155 



Apparatus needed for taking photographs by 

 flashlight, 8 



Artificial rubbish-heap, How to make and 

 use for hiding in, 15 



tree-trunk, How to make and use for 



hiding purposes, 10 



Badgers near London, 121 



Bagpipes and seals, 173 



Barnacles and their kinsfolk, 181 



, How they catch their food, 182 



Bass Rock, and how to get on to it, 98 



Bats, 133 



Bees, Humble, asleep, 151 



Beetles, How a mole caught, 130 



, Stag, and their Habitat, 145 



and " sugar," 144 



Benefits of early rising, 47 



Birds, A list of, for town dwellers to study 

 and photograph, 94 



, Courtship of, 52 



, Best time for studying and photograph- 

 ing, 46 



flying, Photographing, 3 



, How they feed all their young alike, 88 



, keep their chicks dry, 72 



, How to induce them to build in odd 



situations, 57 



Birds' nesting, Glorious uncertainty of, 51 



nests, How to searcli for, 47 



in cliffs, how to find them, 20 



photographed, without assist- 

 ance of ropes, 34 



Birds, Secret of getting close to, 37 



that attack human beings, 107 



betray their nests, 52 



can be photographed on the wing, 



98 



Biscuit-box, Robin's nest in a, 60 

 Blackbird, A pied, and her nest, 66 

 Boats, Photographing from, 44 

 Boy, Frightening a too inquisitive, 147 

 Butterflies, A crowd of meadow-brown, 140 



, Photographing, 136 



, where they sleep, 141 



Butterfly, Curious effect of flashlight on, 142 



, How we photographed a white, 139 



, Orange tip, photographed by flashlight, 



141 

 , Photographing a small tortoiseshell, 136 



Camera, Advice in regard to buying a, 2 



-, Description of our, 2 



, Hand, 34 



, How to hide, in winter, 94 



, How to use, down a cliff, 33 



, Miniature, and its uses, 44 



, Pictures obtained by a guinea, 2 



, Price of, 1 



Cannibal wasps, 154 



Catching moles alive, 129 



Caterpillars, 149 



Cats as the enemies of birds, 56-69 



Cattle, Wild, 134 



Chaffinches, Our unsuccessful attempts to 



photograph, 82 



Cliff climbers, Signals used by, 31 

 climbing exhilarating work, 30 



without ropes, Dangers of, 38 



descending, Dangers of, 30 



good preliminary practice, 26 



, important precautionary measures, 



26 



, How to descend, 23 



photography, The kind of men to assist 



in, 23 



photography without ropes, 34 

 , The right way to descend, 26 



, The wrong way to descend, 25 



work and windy weather, 34 



Cliffs, Effects of looking over, on different 

 people, 30 



