INDEX 



269 



Mimicry, 11, 183 

 Mini vet, 190 

 Motacilla alba, 31 



— borealis, 3 1 



— imper sonata, 31 



— maderaspatensis, 29 



— melanape, 31 

 Muller, 183 



Multiplication, checks on, 131 

 Mungoose, 94-S 



Myna, 41, 64, 76, 184, 189, 198, 

 200, 254 



— bank, 190, 210 



— Brahminy, 16, 210 



— hill, 65 



Naia haje, 91 



— tripudians, 89, 91 



Natural selection, 11, 59, 71, 79- 

 82. 93, 122, 131, 163, iSi, 205 

 Naurang, 133 

 Neophron ginginianus, 5 



— percnopterus, 22 

 Nicholson, 90 

 Night heron, 165-70 

 Nuni-budi-gadu, 164 

 Nuthatch, chestnut-bellied, 173, 



190 

 Nycticorax griseus, 165 



Gates, 8, 16, 17, 117, 127, 234 



Ochromela nigrirufa, iSi 



CEnopopelia iranqiiebarica, 16 



Oriole, 172 



Oriolus kundoo, 172 



" Ornament of the Forest," iiS 



Ornithological and other Oddities, 



13 



Orihotomus sutorias, 7, 16, 176, 



253 

 Ospreys, American, 245, 246 

 Owen,|Miss_J/A., 80 



Owlet, spotted, 73, 74, 75, 209 

 Owls, 36-61, 130 



Paddy bird, iii 



Palaornis torquatus, 73, 74 



Parker, Mr. H., 87 



Parrot, green, 73, 74 



Partridge, 70 

 • Pastor roseus, 192-6, 209 

 I Pavo cristatus, 154 

 ; — muticus, 154 

 i Peacock, 4, 40, 41, 154-9 

 I Perreau, Captain, 251 

 j Pettifoggers, ornithological, 216 



Phalacocotax carbo, 122, 123 



— fuscicollis, 123 



— javanicus, 123 

 Pharaoh's chicken, 22 



— rat, 98 

 Pharoe's mouse, 98 

 Pheasant, Grin's, 10 



— monal, 4 



Pitta, the Indian, 132, 136 



— brachyura, 132 

 Pliny. 94, 143 

 Ploceus hay a, 7, 172 

 Plover, 171 



— spur-winged, 1 1 1 

 Polecat, 256 



Porphyrio, the beautiful, 84-8 



— poliocephahis, $>^ 



— veteruyn, 86 



I Poulton, Professor, 92 

 ! Prinia inornaia, 7, 172 

 I Priority, rule, 216 



Protective colouration, 121, 142 

 i Pugnacits', 142 

 j Pyctorhis nasalis, 234 



— sinensis, 176, 234 



I Pyrrhulauda grisea, 202-7 

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I Quail, 39 



