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INDEX 



Persecution, Carrion Crow and 

 Book, 227 



— House Sparrow and Martin, 



218 



— Lapwing and Snipe, 220 



— Eaven and Buzzard, 217 

 and Peregrine, 216 



— Starling and Woodpecker, 



218, 237 



Persistency to remain in terri- 

 tory, 68 



Pied-Wagtail, 86, 155 



Pigeon, Wood, 219 



Kpit, Meadow, 188 



— Tree, 51, 188, 189, 222, 244, 



278 

 Polyandrous females, 144 

 Predatory species, 268 

 Promiscuous pairing of Kufifs, 



172 

 Proximity to food - supply 



necessary for rearing 



young, 179, 195 

 Psychology, Ma/n/ual of, 1 

 PuflSn, 63, 116, 200 

 Pugnacious instinct, 87-109 

 Pugnacity, 11, 62 



— of females to obtain mates, 



109-118 



— of males, prior to mating- 



season, 77-81 



— of Moor-Hen, 218 



BAOiAii preparation, 41, 43, 46, 



67, 206, 206, 266 

 Bail, Water, 218 

 Eaven, 48, 202, 216 

 Eazor-bill, 63, 64, 200, 247 

 Eeadjustment of territory, 146 

 Bearing of ofiFspring, 3, 4 

 Bed-backed Shrike, 39, 50, 51, 



156 

 Eedbreast, 47 

 Bedshauk, 139 

 Bedwing, 124 



Eedstart, 230, 244 



Beed-Bunting, 28, 68, 69, 85, 104, 

 132, 156, 158, 160, 244, 246, 

 273 



Beed-Warbler,49, 51, 68, 81, 132, 

 140, 152, 153, 211, 225 



Beeve, 171 



Eelation of song to the terri- 

 tory, 119-68 



— of territory to migration, 259 



— of territory to the system of 



reproduction, 169-214 

 Belationship to a territory, 169 

 Beproduction, 14, 15 



— and territory, 169-214 



— attainment of, 2, 6, 37 



— goal of, 6 

 Einged Guillemot, 64 

 Bobbery of territory, 104-107 

 Bock-formation, suitability> for 



Guillemots nesting on, 196 

 Book, 202, 227 

 Boutine behaviour, 262 

 Buff, 54, 63, 172 



— meetingplacesforconflicts,54 

 Buflfs, promiscuous pairing of, 



172 



Savi's Warbler, 139 

 Sedge-Warbler, 25, 44, 152, 226, 



244 

 Selous, E., on the life-history 



of Buffs and Beeves, 172 



— on meeting places for con- 



flicts and antics, 64 



— on the meeting places of 



Black Grouse, 63 

 Service, Eobert, on flocks of 



unmated Sedge-Warblers, 



44, 45 

 Sexual behaviour, 3 



— conflicts, 10 



— development, 6 



— function, discharge of, 2, 3, 26 



— impulse of females, 13 



