public@vhost@g@html@files@51733@51733-h@51733-h-8.htm.html#Page_312" class="pginternal">312, 313; and mount male’s with more difficulty, 312 Back of, as seat for young, 313 Chicks striped like tigers, 313 Discovery made in regard to, 313 “Chook-a, chook-a,” note of, 314 Moorhen’s nest used by, to sit in with chicks, 314-318; probable origin of this habit, 319 Darwin, views of, as to origin of music, 10, 11; ignored by the late Mr. F. W. H. Myers, 10 Attributes colours of tiger, leopard, jaguar, &c., to sexual selection, 44, 45 “Laudetur et alget,” 45 Fenlands, charm of the, 3 Fieldfare, scolding of, 4 Firs, planted near Icklingham fifty years ago, 4 Frank Buckland, his brown paper parcel, 85 His half-part edition of White’s “Selborne,” 85 Gilbert White on House-Martins, 243, 249, 251, 252; unfair treatment of, 259, 260 Great Crested Grebe, consummates nuptial rite on the nest, 68 Great Tit, movements of, compared to those of long-tailed tit, 17 Green Woodpecker, nest of, often seized by the starling, 129; is not much the worse for this, 130, 131; possible result of such deprivation, 131, 132 Feeds on ants, 31 Ants, how procured by, 219, 230 Young of, fed by regurgitation, 31, 217, 218 Does not bring insects in beak to young, 216, 217 Almost wholly an ant eater, 218-221 Contents of excrements of, 220, 221 Almost as salient an instance of changed habits as Darwin’s La Plata woodpecker, 220 Ant diet of, related to regurgitation of food in feeding young, 221 Must mate for life, 221 Conjugal habits in winter, 221, 222 Tail not required as support, 222 A fighter, though the contrary has been stated, 223 Spring tide activities of, account of, 224-238 Hostile demonstrations of, 225 Its method of fighting, 226-230, 233, 237 Fighting actions of, have become stereotyped, 198-204 Origin of dome of nest of, 199; and of entrance to, 200, 201, 203 Uniform way of entering and leaving nest of, 200 Contortionist powers of, 202, 204 Approaches and leaves nest by one set path, 202, 203 The “sweep” up to nest of, 203 Man, the chief animal in this world only, 295 Maternal affection, beauty of, 214 All hail to, 216 Mellersh, Mr., letter of, to Standard about starlings referred to, 160 Migration, facts of, marginal reference to, 290 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 explanation of this habit, 272, 273; may be compared with that of the cow-birds of America, 273 Continued building of nest by, during incubation and rearing of young, 273 Due, probably, to a blind impulse, 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 Variety of expression in cries of young, 278 Young, sit in nest with one parent, 278 No maternal ruse employed by, 181, 278, 279; material for the evolution of on
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