INDEX 



ANIMALS, mysterious faculties 



possessed by, 290, 291 

 Animal world, the, its existence 



ignored by writers on 



psychical subjects, 294 

 Antics, possible origin of some 



kinds of, 184, 185, 191-193 

 Artists, leave the fenlands 



alone, 3 

 Australian parrakeet (Melopsit- 



tacus undulatus), roosting 



habits of, 5, 6 

 Australian swan, nest-building 



actions of the, 174 



BIRDS, roosting habits of, 5, 6 

 Song of, at dawn, 74, 75 

 Chases cltrois of, 109, no 

 Nuptial rite performed habitu- 

 ally on nest by some, 181 

 Some peculiarities in the 



fighting of, 185 

 Mixture of pugnacity and 



timidity in, 191 

 Their delight in nest- 

 building, 199, 200 ; false 

 ideas on this subject, 199, 

 200 



Parental love in ; from what 

 period does it date? 208, 

 209 



Parental affection and instinct 

 of incubation ; are they 

 distinct? 208 



Birds (continued} 



Performance of parental duties 



by male; in what origi- 

 nating? 208-211 

 Male feeding female, remarks 



on, 210, 211 

 Nebbing or billing, origin of 



habit in, 211-213 

 More interesting questions in 



regard to, avoided by 



ornithologists, 210 

 Kiss in proper sense of the 



word, 211-213 

 Collect insects, &c., to feed 



young, 216 



Sexual relations of, 234-236 

 Permanent unions of, 265 

 Power of expression in, 274 

 Cries of, definite significance 



falsely attributed to, 278 

 Maternal ruses practised 



by, 279 ; suggested origin 



of these, 181, 279, 280 

 Our commoner ones related 



to foreign species with 



interesting habits should 



be more closely observed, 



286, 287 

 "Bird Watching," refened to, 



127, 128, 158, 175, 181, 



253 



Blackbirds, roosting note of, 4, 5 

 Variety of notes of, 4, 5 

 Alarm-note, so-called, of, 5 



323 



