630 



GENERAL INDEX. 



Nutcracker, Common, 583. 



Oat-fowl, 460. 



Orders, essential characters of, 99. 



Ornithologist, character of an, 239. 



Ortolan Bunting, 436, 457. 



Ortyx, 133, 226. 



Ortyx virginiana, 1 33, 228. 



Palpatores, 18. 

 Pancreas, 64. 

 Parrot CrossbiU, 326, 429. 

 Partridge, 132,211. 

 Partridge, Grev, 133,218. 



Red-legged, 132, 215. 



Partridges and allied genera, 127. 



Passer, 323, 338. 



Passerinse, 319. 



Passer domesticus, 323, 340. 



montanus, 324, 351. 



Pelvis, 31. 

 Perdicinae, 127. 

 Perdix, 132, 211. 

 Perdix cinerea, 133, 218. 



rubra, 132, 215. 



Peregrine Falcon, digestive organs of, 52. 



PI. IV. 

 Permanent species, 242. 

 Phasianus, 109. 

 Phasianus colchicus, 114. 

 Pheasant, 109. 

 Pheasant, Bohemian, 121. 



Common, 114. 



.. Ring-necked, 119. 



Pica, 492, 559. 

 Pica melanoleuca, 492. 

 Pigeons or Doves, 249, 

 Pigeon, Wood, 259. 



Rock, 268. 



Wild, 268. 



Pine Forests of Badenoch, 475. 

 Pine Bullfinch, 326,411. 



Grosbeak, 411. 



Pink, 329. 



Plectrophanes, 436, 458. 

 Plectrophanes lapponica, 437, 469. 



nivalis, 437, 460. 



Plumage, 67. 



Plumule, 75. 



Pope, 407. 



Practical ornithology, 237, 295, 473,616. 



Primarv qviills, 80. 



Ptarmigan, 132, 165, 187. 



Ptarmigan, Brown, ] 32. 



Grey, 132. 



Pyrrhula, 326, 405. 



Pyrrhula Enucleator, 326,411. 



-. pileata, 326, 407. 



Quail, 133, 231. 



Quail, Common, 133, 233. 



Quest, 259. 



Quills, PI. II. 76, 80, 89. 



Raptores, 17. 

 Rasores, 17, 100, 103. 

 Raven, 491, 498. 

 Red Game, 169. 



Grouse, 169. 



— . Ptarmigan, 169. '' 

 Red-hoop, 407. 

 Red-legged Crow, 587. 

 Red-legged Partridge, 132, 215. 

 Redpoll, Mealy, 325, 388. 



Smaller, 325, 383. 



Reed Bunting, 436, 453. 



Sparrow, 453. 



Remarks on Classification and Nomen- 

 clature, 3. 

 Reptatores, 18. 

 Respiratory apparatus, 66. 

 Rete mucosum, 67. 

 Ribs, 26. 

 Ring Bird, 453. 



Bunting, 433. 



Dove, 259. 



Ringed Dove, 254, 259. 

 Ring-necked Pheasant, 114, 119. 



Turtle, 291. 



Rocus, 535. j 



Rock Dove, 254, 268. 



Grouse, 187. 



Pigeon, 268. 



Rook, 492, 535. 

 Rose Linnet, 371. 

 Royston Crow, 529. 



Salivary Glands, 64. 

 Scansores, 18. 

 Scapulars, 81. 

 Scrapers, 100, 103. 

 Screachag-choille, 576. 

 Secondary quills, 80. 

 Shaft of feather, 70. 

 Shilfa, 329. 

 Shelly, 329. 

 Shell-apple, 329. 

 Sheld-apple, 417. 

 Skeleton of Birds, 20. 



Golden Eagle, 24, PL I. 



Skin, 52, 67. 



Skite, 445. 



Siskin, 325, 400. 



Skins of birds, mode of preserving, 618. 



Skull of Birds, 21. 



Smaller Redpoll, 325, 383. 



Snow Bunting, 460. 



Fowl, 460. 



Snowflake, 437, 460. 



Snow Lark-Bunting, 437, 460. 



Snowy Owl, digestive organs of, 61, Pl.V. 



Sparig, 440. 



