INDEX 



257 



Sexual dimorphism, 80, 81, 128, 



I 5 6 

 Sexual selection, 42, 160, 161, 205- 



207 



Shikra, 175 

 Shrike, 164-167 

 Shrike, bay-backed, 165 

 Shrike, Indian grey-backed, 165 

 Shrike, rufous-backed, 165 

 Shoveller, 8 

 Sisters, seven, I 

 Skylark, 5 

 Skylark, Indian, 5 

 Smell, sense of, in birds, 123 

 Smith, Mr. Bosworth, 141 

 Snipe, full, 8 

 Snipe, Jack, 8 

 Sparrow, 2, 3, 16-22, 75, 76, 143, 



197-201 



Sparrow, hedge, 185 

 Sparrow-hawk, 6, 166, 175, 200 

 Spectator, 168, 169 

 Spice bird, 52-55 

 Sporaginthus amandava, 46 

 Spotted-bill duck, 171 

 Spotted owlet, 94 

 Sprinter, feathered, 89-94 

 Stability of species, 40-45 

 Starling, 88, 106 

 Stint, 9 

 Stork, 35, 36 

 Sir ix flammed, 3, 141 

 Strix javanica, 141 

 Sunbird, 78-83 

 Surniciilus lugubris, 202-207 

 Swallow, 84, 99, 100 

 Swift, 84, 99-103 



Tailor-bird, 62-67, 137, 219 



Teal, 8 



Terminology, ornithological, 73 



Terpsiphone parodist, 81, 156 



Tetrao scoticus t I 



Thamnobia cambayensis, 128, 130 



Think, Do animals? 213-218 



Thirst of young birds, assuaging of, 



225-228 



Thorndike, Professor, 214 

 Thrush, I, 105, 106 

 Tit, blue, I 



Tragedy, tree-top, 145-149 

 Tree creeper, 84 

 Turkey, 93 

 Turtle dove, red, 128 

 Turtur cambayensis, 125 

 Turtur decaocta, 74, 75 

 Turtur risorius t 74, 75, 124 

 Turtur suratensis, 124 



Uroloncha punctulata, 52 



Vidal, 74 

 Vulture, 175 



Wagtail, 7 



Wagtail, pied, 26, 27, 180 



Wallace, 161 



Warbler, 219, 220 



Weaver-bird, 137, 183-189, 219 



" White ant," 182 



White-breasted kingfisher, 4, 86 



Widgeon, 8 



Woodpecker, golden-backed, 84-88 



Wren, I, 219 



Wren-warbler, ashy, 222, 223 



Wren-warbler, Indian, 219-222 



Wryneck, 84 



