INDEX 



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Missel-Thrush, harsh strident 

 note of, 4 



Puts a peewit to flight, 123 



Skirmishes of, with stone- 

 curlews, 123, 124 



Retreats with honour, 124 

 Moorhen, haunts the river Lark, 

 261 



Pair of, built yearly in author's 

 pond, 265 



Supernumerary nests made 

 by, 265-269 



Sits in two or more nests, 

 266-269 



Bathing habits of, 267 



Special bathing - places of, 

 public and private, 267 



Pronounced habit of over- 

 building of, 269 



Destruction of its own eggs 

 by, 269-273; possible ex- 

 planation of this habit, 

 272, 273 ; may be com- 

 pared with that of the 

 cow-birds of America, 273 



Continued building of nest by, 

 during incubation and rear- 

 ing of young, 273 



Due, probably, to a blind im- 

 pulse, 273, 274 



Legs of, gartered in male 

 alone, 275 



Triple successive coloration 

 of the cere in, 275 



Difficulty of explaining this, 

 275, 276 



Precocity of young, 276, 277 



Fear of man in the newly- 

 hatched chick, 277 



Carries shell of hatched egg 

 to shore, 277 



Young, fed by dams, 277 



Young, notes of, 277, 278 



Maternal cries of, 277, 278 



Clucking note of, to call 

 young, 277, 278 ; and for 

 other uses, 278 



Moorhen (continued) 



Variety of expression in cries 

 of young, 278 



Young, sit in nest with one 

 parent, 278 



No maternal ruse employed 

 by, 181, 278, 279; mate- 

 rial for the evolution of 

 one possibly observed, 279 



Nerves of, highly strung, 280 



Effect of report of gun on, 

 280 



Motions, actions, &c., of, 280 



A bundle of caprices, 280 



Habit of flirting tail of, 280 



Pugnacity of, 281 



Scene in " The Rivals " acted 

 by, 281 



Warlike display of, 281-283 



Method of fighting of, 283- 

 285 ; is essentially un- 

 aquatic, 284, 285 



Pugnacity of, even in winter, 

 281 



Bathes only in shallow water, 

 285 



Analogy between some actions 

 of, and more developed 

 ones of Ypecaha rail, 285, 

 286 



Nuptial antic or pose of, 287, 

 288 



Emotional hermaphroditism 

 of, 288 



Interchangeable performance 

 of nuptial rite in sexes 

 of, 288 ; bearing of this 

 on questions of nature 

 and origin of sexual dis- 

 play, and of inter-sexual 

 selection, 288, 289 ; as, 

 also, on the subliminal 

 self theory, 289 



Myers, the late Mr. F. W. H., 

 has ignored Darwin's views 

 as to origin of musical 

 faculty in man, 10 



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