91, 92, 115, 124-125, 138, 141, 178, 182, 204-205, 209;
excitement when young hatch, 63;
family government, 12, 35, 85, 111, 156;
friendly birds shy at nest, 65, 66, 67, 86, 87, 88, 93, 94,
99, 105, 153, 198, 202, 203;
--habits of male at nest:
absent, 24, 149-155, 167;
brings mate food for young, 32, 63;
brings material to mate, 50, 52;
broods, 43, 44, 62;
builds while female looks on or goes off with other females, 199,
200, 203, 204, 207-208;
feeds mate, 27, 52, 126, 132, 134, 180, 182;
feeds young, 33, 82, 88;
guards mate, 27, 42, 53, 201;
helps mate build, 48, 50, 52, 61, 106, 108, 109, 126, 135, 142,
145;
sings while mate builds and broods, 22, 26, 30, 31, 33, 56, 83,
84, 90, 175, 177, 178;
interval between building and brooding, 59, 145, 181;
looking for nesting sites, 25, 26, 129, 184-185;
lordly airs of male, 25, 115, 116, 117, 172, 208;
paternal instinct, 31-33, 53, 63, 191, 204, 205;
persistence in work, 60, 107, 178;
reluctance to brood, 43, 44;
tenderness to young, 23, 33, 84, 85.
food,--
ants, 76;
bees, 114, 115;
carrion, 97;
cocoons, 100;
gophers, 136;
grubs, 12, 13, 111;
insects, 4, 6, 7, 16, 31, 36, 82, 91, 101, 150, 160;
lizards and toads, 99;
pepper berries, 197, 198, 201;
rats and mice, 137;
scale, 103;
seeds, 93, 162;
snakes, 132;
spiders, 31;
worms, 12, 13, 57, 164, 182, 185, 186, 190.
flight, 5, 7, 16, 17, 24, 30, 81, 91, 98, 99, 103, 115, 118, 147,
149, 153, 156, 161, 166, 168, 184, 195, 196, 197, 209.
friendliness when not disturbed, 10, 13, 23, 30, 40, 42, 45, 53,
59, 61, 64, 67, 83, 86, 89, 92, 95, 97, 100, 105, 126, 128,
129, 144, 148, 150-151, 153, 158, 171, 178, 180, 182-183, 185,
186, 197, 200, 201, 204.
legends about, 11, 105.
local names,--
blue jay, 6;
burrowing owl, 11;
bush-tit, 56;
California towhee, 92.
neighborly relations, 13, 25, 45-48, 49, 57-61, 62, 80, 86, 96,
100, 108, 115, 116, 124, 125, 126, 130, 138, 147, 171-174,
189-193, 204-205, 208-209.
nervousness, 9, 11, 22, 26, 34, 35, 42, 47, 53, 56, 61, 63, 64,
67, 70, 76, 81, 82, 87, 88, 97, 105, 117, 138, 139, 156,
166, 177,