Naturalist, Impression made upon, by great skua, 108 Needle and thread stolen by a wren, 92 Nest, Great Tit’s, inside a thrush’s, 91 —, Watching a bird build its, 54 Nesting places, Curious, 89 Nests betrayed by male birds, 52 —, Helping birds to build their, 54 —, How moorhens hide their, 70 —, How to search for, 47 — in high hedges, How to photograph, 42 — in trees, How to examine interiors of, 41 — in trees, Photographing, 40 —, “Mock,” made by great skuas, 111 — of game birds, 52 — of ground-building birds, How to find, 52 — of harvest mice, 132 — of predatory birds, 52 Newts caught and lost, 162 Noup of Noss a sea-fowl paradise, 103 Nuts, Squirrels’ fondness for 127

Observation, Cultivating powers of, 49 Orkney and Shetland Islands rich in sea-bird life, 100 Otters, Alertness of

Parasites on birds and fish, 106 Periwinkle feeding, 180 Pheasant sitting on her nest whilst her eggs were being stolen by a stoat, 119 — versus fox, 121 Photographing a chaffinch and nest in a dark place, 82 — a humble bee asleep, 152 — a pair of Leverets, 116 — a pied blackbird feeding her young, 68 — a small tortoiseshell butterfly, 136 — birds feeding their young, 72 — common rats, Difficulties of, 122 — fish in the water, 163 — fledglings, 83 — flying birds, 3 — from boats, 44 — in cliffs, trees, &c., Necessary qualifications for, 20 — moving objects, 44 — nests in trees, 40 — the photographer at work, 36 — wild birds at roost, 8 — with the camera in a coal-scuttle, 105 Piano, Squirrel’s love for sounds of a, 125 Plates, the best kinds to use, 6 Play, Rabbits at, 117 Pneumatic tubing and its uses, 4 Preservation, Effect of, on great skuas, 111 Preservers of the great skua, 108 Puffins, The fun of stalking, with a camera, 101 Purple shells, Dye from, 179

Rabbits at play, 117 —, How to attract them, 118 —, How to photograph them, 118 Rat, common, Habits of, 122 —, Old British black, 122 Rats, How their habitat is extended, 123 Reason versus instinct, 26 Reed Pheasant, 49 Robin’s nest, Accident to a, 58 — nest in a biscuit-box, 60 — nest in hand-basket, 80 Rocky Shores, Mollusca upon, 178 Romans as introducers of foreign animals, 157 Rooks’ nests, 93 Rope, How to pay out to cliff descender, 31 Ropes, Care of, in descending a cliff, 30 —, Importance of retaining hold of, 32 — used for descending cliffs, 20 Rubbish-heap, artificial, Advice about using, 16 — heap, artificial, How to make, for hiding in, 15

Salmon breeding, Habits of, 180 Salt, A child’s attempt to catch birds by a pinch of, 94

188 Sea-birds, and how to stalk them with the caincra, 96 Ureeding on the Farne Islands, 97 Seals, Waiting in Vain for, 173 —,, Where they breed in’ Britain, 173, Shag, Bitten by a, 38 — Photographing a, 36 Shags, Boldness of, 21 Shag’s ery of distress, 37 Sharks ini British Waters, 172 Sheep, Wild, 135 Shrike, red-backed, on the defensive, 83 Shrikes, Courtship 'of, 53 Shutter, Iinportance of using a silent, 4 —, Very rapid, and its uses, 4 Signals used by cliff climbers, 31 Skua, Great, and its methods of attack, 108 ‘—,, and its preservers, 108 —} and where it breeds, 108

habit of moving its eggs, 111

— Speed of flight of, 110 Skuas at Home, 107 Great, A protector of, 24 { Skylark, Actions of a, 73 How we photographed a, feeding her chieks, 73 Sleeping-places of butterflies, 141 Slides, dark, Advice about, 5 Slugs as weather prophets, 157 Snails, Edible, 1 Sparrows, How we photographed, 4 Spiders, How they cateh flies, 160 —,, How they build their webs, 157 Spiders’ webs covered with hoar frost, 161 Squirrel, How we found the nest of a, 124 Sqnirrel's horror of a ferret, 127 —— love for piano sounds, 125 Squirrels on the ground, 127 Squirrel, young, How we reared a, 125 Starfish and fishermen’s bait, 176 —, How to distingnish a live from a dead one, Starlings, How we photographed a pair feeding their young, 75 —, Industry of, 76. Stoat climbing to a blackbinl’s nest, 119 —— stealing eggs from Deneath’a sitting pheasant, 119 St. Kilda a grand place for sea-Wirds, 100 St. Kildans and their love of cliff climbing, 30 Subject, A great and fascinating, 183 \ “Sugar,” How to prepare, for moths, 144 | “Sugaring” for moths, 143 —,, Suitable nights for, 144 Swift exhausted lighting on fishing-boat at night, 84 — bi ‘Tameness of a long-tailed tit, 80 ‘Things to be remembered, 5 Wiep Lire ar Home. ‘Thrushes, A pair of, and their young, 64 Thrush, How we photographed a, feeding her young, 64 Wit, Bearded, Brooding habits of male, 51 —, —, How we found the nest of #, 49 — amily a bold one, — family, Curious nesting places of members of, 90 —, Great, Curious habits of, 62 —; —, killed on her nest by a eat, 68 —) —} How we photograpl ed a, $0 est of a Great, inside a thrush’s, 91 Tits, Capturing young Bearded, 86 — Beanled, as gymnasts, St — Long-tailed, Curious sleeping habits of, ——,, Long-tailed, How we photographed the, 380 Toads, How to distinguish, from frogs, 166 Toad’s winter quarters, 167 Tongue of a frog, 164 Tracks of birds, How we photographed them in the snow, 96 — of wild ereatures in the snow, 94 Tree, Hollow, and Virds that bred in it, 61 — trunk, artificial, Complete snecess of, 81 Trees, Photographing nests in, 40 + ‘Tree-frunk, How to make and nse an artificial, for hiding in, 10 ‘Tricks practised by bares, 114 Trout fascinated by artificial light, 16s —, Habits of, 168 —} Instinets of, 169 Urehins, Sea, 176 Vole, Water, How we photographed a, 124 — —, The habits of, 125 Wading bogs, Dangers of, 51° Wandering habits of mollusea, 179 Wasps and their nests, 152 —— as drunkards, 154 — as house-fly catchers, 153 , Great vitality of, 154 Weasels, Habits of, 120 — numerons near London, 120 Weather, Effet of, upon slugs, 157 Whale, Dead, 172 —,, Sponting of, 172 Whales and the noises they make, 170 ‘himbrel’s nest, How we found a, 48 Worms, Instinetive movements of, 128 Wren’s nest in a coil of rope, 91 Printed by Casseiy & Company, Limitep, La Belle Sauvage, London E.C.

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