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INDEX 



Pink-footed geese, 216, 217, 350, 



43 2 

 Pintail, 97, 31 5 



Plumage, regularity of first, 103 

 Pochard, 89, 95, 224, 362 

 Polar origin of life, 19, 26 

 Portugal, 198, 308 

 Protective coloration, 226, 387 

 Pseudo-erotism, 208, 234-5 

 Puffin, 379 

 Purple sandpiper, 386 



Quail, 197 

 Quicksands, 300, 348 



R 



" Rare birds," 98-9 

 Raven, 39, 1 18-19, r 49 

 Razorbill, 149, 379 

 Reclamation, 138, 280, 396 (note) 

 Red deer, in Scotland, 52, 380 

 (note) 



in Westmorland, 231 

 Red-legged partridge, 198 

 Red-necked grebe, 407 

 Redpoll, lesser, 101, 254, 259 

 Redshank, 32, 47, 50, 79, 102, 138, 

 174, 386 



spotted, 386, 388, 403 

 Redstart, 53, 84, 85, 190 

 Red-throated diver, 372, 408, 415 

 Redwing, 193, 227 

 Reed-bunting, 34, 138 

 Reeve, 183 



Resumption of song, 30, 180, 198 

 Ringed plover, 33, 1 50 

 Ring-ouzel, 33, 50,76, 101, 179, 191, 



193 (note) 

 Robin, 150, 185, 259 

 Rock-pipit, 150 



Rook, 46, 149, 179, 236 



Ruff and Reeve, 183, 384, 404 



Salmon, 54, Chap, v., 56, 104, 106 



evolution of, 60 



netting in rivers, 64 



spawning season, 60, 254, 255 

 Sanderling, 386, 388, 390, 402 

 Sandgrouse, Pallas', 140-1 

 Sand-martin, 33, 67 

 Sandpiper, common, 36, 81, 174, 



199, 384 



curlew, 384, 388, 390, 391, 401 



green, 182 



purple, 386 



wood, 183 

 Saprolegnia ferax, 56 

 Scaup-duck, 226, 295, 358, 369 

 Scoter, black, 178, 377 



velvet, 225, 378 

 Sea-ducks, Chap, xxxi., 368 

 Sea ice, formation of, 292 

 Sea-trout, 65 

 Seal, common, 379, 380 



great grey, 379, 380 

 Sedge-warbler, 84, 85 

 Shearwater, 410 

 Sheld-duck, 225, 251, 294, 316 

 Short-eared owl, 138-9 

 Shoveler, 90-1, 93, 94, 96, 97, 3' 5 

 Shrike, great grey, 260 



lesser, 260 

 Siskin, 227, 253, 259 

 Skua, no, 181, 387 

 Skylark, 29, 199, 235 

 Slavonian grebe, 22 (note), 93-4, 



407 

 Smell, sense of, in wildfowl, 302-3 

 Smew, 366 

 Snipe, 47, 5°, 51, 176, 256 



drumming of, 49, 20S (note) 



-shooting, 258 



