INDEX. 



285 



Quail, 81 



Q. 



R. 



"Rare birds," 47, 74. 233 



Raven, 3, 19, 57, 107. 126-7 



Redewater, 34, 97 



Red-legged Partridge. SI 



Red-necked Grebe, 248 



Red pole, 50 



Redshank, 8, 24, 26, 39, 72, 262 



Dusky, 236 



Redstart, 82 



Red-throated Diver, 248 



Redwing, 95, 96 



Reed Bunting, 27 



Reeve, 84, 235-6, 247 



Ring-Dotterel, 25, 202, 246 



Ring-Ouzel, 8, 24, 37-8, 50-1, 84, 96 



Robin, 84, 135 



Rook, 78, 104 



RuflF, 235-6, 247 



Salmon, 32, 125 



Samphire, Marsh, 163 



Sand-bars, 170 1, 209 



Sanderling, 235-6, 238-9, 247 



Sand-flats, 163 et S(q. 



Sandpiper, Common, 8, 31, 41, 51, 72, 



235-6 



Curlew, 18, 82, 236 et scq. 



Green, 84, 236 



Purple, 235-6 



Wood, 236 



Scaup Duck, 75, 97, 189, 214, 216 et 



serj., 225, 228 

 Sclavonian Grebe, 248 

 Scoter, Common, 75, 76, 230 



Velvet, 97, 230-1 



Sea-ducks, chap, xxvii., p. 224 



Sea-ice, Formation of, 165 et seq. 



Seals, 171. 231 



Sheld-Duck, 97, 184-5, 189, 254 



Shetland, 18, 74, 78, 231 



Short-eared Owl, 127-8 



Shoveller, 75, 76, 184, 229 



Siberia, 9-10, 74, 79, 83, 235,238,239 



Skua, Arctic, 51, 78, 237 



Skylark, 8, 19, 96 



Smell, Sense of, in wildfowl, 174 



Smew, 222 



Smolts, 32 



Snipe, 28, 29, -30, 74, 128-130 



Drumming of, 28 



Solitary, 80 



Snow on fells in December, 9.3, 133 et 



seq. 



in May, 37, 44 



on Coast, 165, 166 (footnote) 



Snow Bimting, 125 



Snowstormsof March, 1886, 18 19, chap. 



xxxii., p. 258 

 Solan Goose, 109 

 Solitary Snipe, 80 

 Solway, 1, 39, 199 

 Spain, 20, 39, 40, 112, 212, 246 

 Sparrow-hawk, 21 

 Spitzbergen, 14, 79, 191, 199,211, 235, 



238 

 Spotted Crake, 134 

 Spring-time, 2, 27 

 Starling, 51, 103 

 Stint, Little, 236 



Temminck's, 236 



Stockdove, 8, 24, 29, 30, 1 45 

 Summer on the Moors, 42, 46, 53 



Coast, 234 



Swallow, 52 

 Swans, Wild, 166, 264 

 Sweden, 140, 259, 263 

 Swift, Alpine, 48 

 Common, 77 



T. 



Teal, 5, 19, 51, 99, 135, 183, 202 



Teesmouth, 156, 267 



Telegraph wires, Destructiveness of, 



104-5-6 

 Temminck's Stint, 236 

 Tern, Black, 45 

 Terns, 51, 237 

 Thrush, 135 



Missel, 24, 78, 84 



Titlark, 8, 20, 77, 83, 96 



Titmice, 135, 144 



Tipped Shot with Punt-gun, 279 



