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306 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

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

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