INDEX 



455 



Mild weather, wildfowling in, Chap. 



xxxv., 411, Chap, xxxix., 445 

 Mimicry, of song, 235 

 Mirage, 79 



Missel-thrush, 46, 179, 191 

 Montagu's harrier, 229 

 Moorhen, or waterhen, 107-8, 261 

 Morning flight, grouse, 234 



wildfowl, 282 et seq. 

 Moult, eider-duck, 371 



game birds, 87, 169, 206 



godwit, 396-7 



grey-geese, 299 (note) 



long-tailed duck, 374 



mallard, 102 



sheld-duck, 317 

 Mussels, 426 



freshwater, 107 



N 



Names, local, of wildfowl, 438 



Narrow escapes, 441 



Nesting habits, black-backed gull, 



7i 

 blackgame, 74-5, 80 

 black-headed gull, 50, 69 

 curlew, 50 

 dipper, 41-2 

 dunlin, 50, 77-8 

 golden plover, 50, 51 

 great spotted woodpecker, 133-4 

 greyhen, 50 

 grouse, 50, 80, 86 

 heron, 41 

 herring-gull, 74 

 long-eared owl, 45 

 peewit, 51 

 pied flycatcher, 82 

 redshank, 47, 78 

 ring-ouzel, 76, 101 

 sandpiper, 81 

 snipe, 51 

 stockdove, 46, 51 



Nesting habits, tawny-owl, 43 



wagtails, 49 



waterhen, 107-8 

 Nightjar, 69, 126, 135-6, 179 

 Night-shooting, ducks, 31 1-12, 



Chap, xxvi., 319, 413, 416 

 "Noops," 104, 116 (note) 

 Northern lights, 445 

 Norway, 26, 54, 76, 82, 99, 135, 148, 



173, 176, 189, 337, 350 

 Notes of wildfowl, 322-3, 449 

 Nuthatch, 135 



O 



Oceanic birds, 238 



Origin of life, polar, 19, 26 



Osprey, 232 



Otter, 108 



Owl, long-eared, 45, 109, 149 



short-eared, 138-9 



tawny, 43, 149, 183 

 Oystercatcher, 107, 284, 386, 405 



Pallas' sandgrouse, 140- 1 

 Partridge, grey, 193-4, I96(variety), 

 249 

 red-legged, 198 

 Peel fell, 3, 104 

 Peewit, 29, 51, 79, 87, 237, 386, 388, 



389. 404 

 Pelicans, in Denmark, 396 (note) 

 Peregrine falcon, 1 18-19, 149 

 Petrel, 238, 410 

 Phalarope, grey, 198, 403 



red-necked, 403 

 Pheasant, 183 



Pickiemaw, see Black-headed gull 

 Pied flycatcher, 52, 81, 84, 181 

 Pied wagtail, 29, 49, 50, 67, 188 

 Pine-marten, 120 



