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- 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