1 86 



WILD LIFE AT HOME. 



Cliffs, how to find birds' nests in, 20 



Cockles and their habits, 178 



" Cocks' nests " built by wrens, 91 



Courtship of birds, 52 



Crabs and baited hooks, 174 



, Difficulty of photographing, under 



water. 174 

 Crows, Carrion, abundance of, near London, 



69 



, Boldness of, 69 



, Rapacity of, 70 

 Dubs, Fox, possibility of photographing. 121 



Dainties dear to the sea-gull's heart, 105 

 Dangers of cliff climbing without ropes, 38 



of cliff descending, 30 



Deer Fallow, Red and Roe, 134 

 , Possibility of photographing, with tele- 

 photo lens, 134 

 Developing, Hints about, 7 



materials, Advice about, 5 

 Dog hanged by a mole, 128 

 Dragon-flies, Where to find, 149 



fly, Curious effect of flashlight on, 143 



, How we photographed a large, 150 



Drunken wasps, 154 



Duck, Wild, The antics of a, 51 



Ducks, Eider, and their tameness, 9S 



Eagle, White-tailed or Sea, Eyrie of, 28 

 Earwigs and " sugar," 144 

 Eels, Breeding habits of, ISO 

 Epping Forest, Deer in, 134 

 Escape, A hairbreadth, 28 

 , A narrow, 99 



Fame Islands and the sea-birds breeding on 



them, 97 

 Faults to which the amateur photographer is 



prone, 7 



Feathered robbers of the sea, 107 

 Feeding and photographing young sea-gulls, 



104 



birds in winter, 94 



Ferret, Squirrel's horror of a, 127 

 Field glasses, Advice about, 9 



work, Advice about, 6 



Fish photographed whilst swimming in the 



water, 163 



Fishermen's bait and starfish, 176 

 Flashlamp, Frightening a too inquisitive boy 



with a, 147 

 Flashlight, Curious effect of, on orange tip 



butterfly, 142 

 mistaken for lightning, 147 



photography, 8 

 Fledglings, Photographing, 83 



Flies caught by a single spider's web, 159 

 Focus, How to obtain a good sharp, 6 

 Focussing cloth, the best kind to use, 5 

 Food collecting habits of bearded tit, 87 



, How barnacles catch their, 182 



, How birds give all their young, 88 



, Mole's inability to do without, for more 



than twelve hours, 131 

 Fox at play, 120 



Fox trying to catch a pheasant, 121 

 Foxes, Young, drowned by accident, 121 

 Fright, A bad, 37 

 Frog music, 166 

 Frog's cry of fear, 165 



leap, Length of, 166 

 Frogs and their food, 164 

 - , Where they love to breed, 166 

 Fulmar Petrel, breeding in the Shetlands, 111 



Gardeners and starlings, 77 

 Glow-worm and its light, 147 

 | Goats, Wild, 134 



Grasshoppers as " sitters," 161 

 Grief of a great tit, 64 

 Ground, Squirrels on the, 127 

 Guide books to photography, 1 

 Gulls, Immature, in our harbours, 103 

 like to wash in fresh water, 10(5 



Habitat of rats, how it is extended, 123 



of stag beetles, 145 



Habit, Curious, of great skuas, 111 



, Peculiar, of wild cattle, 134 

 Habits, Curious, of hares, 113 



, Breeding, of eels, 180 



, , of salmon, 180 



of a blackbird, 68 



of the cockle, 178 



of common rat, 122 



of great tit, 62 



- of starlings and blackbirds compared, 78 



of trout, 168 



of water-voles, 123 



of weasels, 120 



Hares and their curious habits, 113 



love of old haunts, 114 

 , Tricks practised by, 114 

 Haunts, the love of hares for old, 114 

 Hebrides, and where to work them from, 100 

 Hedgehogs. 127 

 Hedges, high, How to photograph nests in, 



Hedge-sparrow, Habits of, 54 



, nest building, 54 



Hiding contrivances, 10-17 



up for shy animals, 9 



Hints, A few general, 17 



Important points, 1 



Industry of male chaffinches, 83 



of starlings, 78 

 Insects, A method of photographing, 151 



, Important point about photographing, 



139 



, Photographing, 136 



Instinct versus reason, 26 

 Instinctive movements of worms, 128 

 Instincts of trout, 169 

 Intelligence of ants, 155 



Kittiwakes, Photographing, on their nests. 



