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INDEX
  • Persecution, Carrion Crow and Book, 227
  • —House Sparrow and Martin, 218
  • —Lapwing and Snipe, 220
  • —Raven and Buzzard, 217
  • ——and Peregrine, 216
  • —Starling and Woodpecker, 218, 237
  • Persistency to remain in territory, 68
  • Pied-Wagtail, 86, 155
  • Pigeon, Wood, 219
  • Pipit, Meadow, 188
  • —Tree, 51, 188, 189, 222, 244, 278
  • Polyandrous females, 144
  • Predatory species, 268
  • Promiscuous pairing of Ruffs, 172
  • Proximity to food-supply necessary for rearing young, 179, 195
  • Psychology, Manual of, 1
  • Puffin, 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


  • Racial preparation, 41, 43, 46, 67, 206, 206, 266
  • Bail, Water, 218
  • Raven, 48, 202, 216
  • Razor-bill, 63, 64, 200, 247
  • Readjustment of territory, 146
  • Rearing of offspring, 3, 4
  • Red-backed Shrike, 39, 50, 51, 156
  • Redbreast, 47
  • Redshank, 139
  • Redwing, 124
  • Redstart, 230, 244
  • Reed-Bunting, 28, 68, 69, 85, 104, 132, 156, 158, 160, 244, 246, 273
  • Reed-Warbler, 49, 51, 68, 81, 132, 140, 152, 153, 211, 225
  • Reeve, 171
  • Relation of song to the territory, 119-68
  • —of territory to migration, 259
  • —of territory to the system of reproduction, 169-214
  • Relationship to a territory, 169
  • Reproduction, 14, 15
  • —and territory, 169-214
  • —attainment of, 2, 6, 37
  • —goal of, 6
  • Ringed Guillemot, 64
  • Robbery of territory, 104-107
  • Rock-formation, suitability, for Guillemots nesting on, 196
  • Rook, 202, 227
  • Routine behaviour, 262
  • Ruff, 54, 63, 172
  • —meeting places for conflicts, 54
  • Ruffs, promiscuous pairing of, 172


  • Savi's Warbler, 139
  • Sedge-Warbler, 25, 44, 152, 226, 244
  • Selous, E., on the life-history of Ruffs and Reeves, 172
  • —on meeting places for conflicts and antics, 64
  • —on the meeting places of Black Grouse, 63
  • Service, Robert, 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