INDEX 



(An asterisk denotes that an illustration is given) 



Acclimatisation of goldfinch, 



70-76 ; unsuccessful attempts, 



174-177 

 Adjutant, 184 

 *American bittern, 161, 162 



quail, 176 



robin, 102, 103 



Amherst pheasant, 8, 11, 16, 17 



Apteryx, 52 



Argus pheasant, 46 



Athens, owls in, 136 



Audubon, quoted, 10 



Auks, absent from Indian seas, 



184 

 Avadavat, experiments with, 4 ; 



in India, 100 

 Aviaries, inmates for, 223-228 

 Aviculture, Japanese, 186-193 ; 



in London, 223-228, 270- 



273 



B 



Babblers, 36, 38, 39, 40, 201 

 Baboon, habits of tame, 244 

 Bantams, preferences of hens, 



3 ; hybrid with grouse, 18 ; 



* Japanese, 186, 187 

 Bee-eaters, riding on storks, 



200 

 Bees, legend about generation 



of, 252 253 

 Bengalee, 191, 192 



Besra, 37 



*Bhimraj, 115, 116 

 Bitterns, American and Euro- 

 pean, 161 

 Blackbird, its tameness in Lon- 

 don, 129; solitary habits, 

 199 

 Blackcock, hybrid with caper- 

 cailzie and red grouse, 13 

 Blood-pheasant, 180 

 Blue-bird, American, 103, 104 

 Blushing in birds, 217-222 

 Bob-white, 176 

 Bonhote, Mr. J. L., breeding of 



duck hybrids by, 20 

 Booby, 236, 237 

 *Brain-fever bird, 36, 57, 58 

 Budgerigar, attempt to acclima- 

 tise, 175; in aviaries, 223, 

 224 

 Buffalo, 263 

 Bulbuls, 39, 40 ; Bengal and 



red-whiskered, 98 

 Bullocks, ill-treated in India, 



262 

 Bunder (rhesus monkey), 276- 



279 

 Bustards, Indian, 181 

 Butterflies, offered to Hornbill, 

 49 



289 



Canary, mated 



to 

 T 



British 



