Index 



H 



Hanno, discoverer of gorillas, 



285 

 Harrier, powder-downs in, 43 ; 



marsh-, teasing night-herons, 



144 

 *Hawk-cuckoo, 36, 37, 58, 67 

 Hawks, 55, 56 

 Herodotus as zoologist, 253- 



261 

 Herons, serrated claw in, 44; 



powder-downs in, 46 ; pond, 



139, 184 ; night, 140, 144 

 * Herring-gull, common, 127, 



128, 234 ; yellow-legged, 234, 



235 

 Hoatzin, quadrupedal young of, 



150 

 Hoolock, 283 

 Hoopoe, odour of, 42 

 Hornbill, concave-casqued, 42; 



pied, discrimination of, 49 ; 



moult of, 80 

 Horses, how treated in India, 



264 ; supposed anciently to 



generate wasps, 252 

 Hudson, Mr. W. H., quoted, 



86 

 Hybrid birds, 13-22 ; wild, 13, 



14 ; fertility and sterility of, 



15, 16, 19-22 ; double, 17,22; 



between remote species, 18 ; 



in grouse, 13; ducks, 14,19, 



20; parrakeets, 21 ; pigeons, 



22 



I 



*Ibis, Herodotean account, 256' 



257 

 *Impeyan pheasant, 179 



J 

 Jacana, pheasant-tailed, 148, 



183, 184 ; bronze-winged, 149 

 Jackals, in India, 265 

 Jackdaw, experiment with, 49, 



50; for London, 272 

 Jack-rook, 89 

 *Japanese bantams, 186, 187 ; 



long-tailed fowls, 188-190; 



*pea-fowl, 192 ; *monkeys, 



279-282 

 Java sparrow, in Zanzibar, 92 ; 



in Calcutta, 93 ; in Java, 94 ; 



domesticated in Japan, 190, 



191 ; for London aviaries, 225 

 *Javan (or Burmese) peafowl, 



178, 179, 192 

 Jay, 272 

 Jay-thrush, white-crested, 201 



* Jungle-fowl, red, moult of, 81 ; 



as a fighter, 151 ; common 

 in India, 179; *grey, 179; 

 Ceylon, 179 ; green, 219, 220 



K 



Kaleege, 151, 179 



* King-crow, 56, 57 

 Kingfisher, in London, 129; in 



India, 268 ; Australian laugh- 

 ing, 106 



Kite, bullied by drongo, 56 ; 

 resemblance of eagle to, 60, 

 69 ; at Dhappa, 232 ; in India 

 generally, 265, 267 



*Koel, or black cuckoo, 33-36 



Koklass pheasant, 179 



Landrail, moult of, 80 

 Lapwing, 199 ; South American, 

 86 



592 



