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- Vocal Imitation, 156, 157, 161
- Voice calls of Curlew, 263
- Wagtail, Pied, 86, 155
- —Yellow, 278
- Wanderings from land, Guillemots, 193
- Warbler, Garden, 223, 225, 230
- —Grasshopper, 39, 131, 139, 155, 187, 244
- —Marsh, 39, 40, 52, 81, 132, 140, 155, 156, 225
- —Reed, 49, 51, 68, 81, 132, 140, 152, 153, 211, 225
- —Savi's, 139
- —Sedge, 25, 44, 152, 226, 244
- —Willow, 25, 47, 50, 51, 80, 91, 140, 187, 211, 232, 244, 273
- —Wood, 50, 51, 132, 221
- Warfare between different species and its relation to the territory, 215-58
- Warning notes, 119
- —of danger, 269
- Water Rail, 218
- Wheatear, 35, 51
- Whimbrel, 140
- Whinchat, 39, 50, 51, 81, 222, 232, 233, 234, 244
- Whitethroat, 25, 50, 68, 69, 124, 140, 182, 187, 189, 190, 213, 230, 244
- —Lesser, 230, 244
- Wild Duck, 250
- Will, the, to fight, 102
- Willow-Warbler, 25, 47, 50, 51, 80. 91, 140, 187, 211, 332, 244, 273
- Winter assemblies, 262-63
- Witherby, H. F., in British Birds, on the return to former breeding-ground, 281
- Wood-Owl, 156
- Wood-Pigeon, 219
- Wood-Warbler, 50, 51, 132, 221
- Woodpecker, Lesser Spotted, 237
- —Great Spotted, 237, 238
- —Green, 20, 71, 156, 208, 218, 237
- Wren, 244
- Yellow Bunting, 28, 30, 47, 64, 140, 159, 162, 183, 187, 188, 189, 235, 236, 286
- Young die in nest from exposure, 184, 185
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