INDEX 



335 



Tits, a feature of Icklingham, 



194 

 Tree-pipit, voice of, like the 



skylark's, 112 

 Tuddenham, observations on 



pair of dabchicks at, 296- 



306 



VOICE, importance of the, in 

 classification, 112, 113 



WATER-WAGTAIL, courting ac- 

 tions of male, 113, 114; 

 similarity in, to those of 

 pheasant, 114 



Nest of, in that of song-thrush, 

 213 



Hen alone seems to incubate, 

 213 



Alternates eating with build- 

 ing, 213, 214 



Open bills of young, like 

 Venetian glass vases, 214 



Collects a number of flies, &c., 

 for young, 214 



Beauty of maternal love as 

 exemplified by, 214 



Skill of, in collecting flies, 



215, 216 

 Weather, the, and the cries of 



birds, 6, 7 



Wheatear, characteristic of the 

 steppes of Icklingham, 106 



Arrival of first pair of, 106 



Arrives in splendid plumage, 

 106 



Wheatear (continued} 

 Ways of the male, 106, 107 

 Plumage of male, 114, 115 

 Courtship of male, 107, 114 

 Curious sexual actions of male, 



175, 176 



Wood-pigeons, cooing of, 8, 9 

 Roosting of, 9, 10, 12, 13 

 Emotions raised by rushing 



sound of wings of, 9, 10 ; 



remarks as to this, 10-12 

 Numbers of, in West Suffolk, 



12, 13 



Pigeon-trees made by, 1 3 

 Less characteristic coo of, 74, 



Single one flying with star- 

 lings, 127 



Partial paralysis produced in, 

 by sudden fright, 279, 

 280 



Wordsworth, his "intimations 

 of immortality " due to the 

 laws of inheritance, 10, 

 ii 



No evidence contained in the 



famous ode of, 11, 12 

 Wren, house-hunting of, 13, 14 



Food of, in winter, 14 



Seen to enter long-tailed tit's 

 nest in absence of owner, 

 204, 205 



YPECAHA rails, screaming 

 dances of, referred to, 

 285 



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