IKDEX. 





Missel Thrush, 74 

 Montagu's Harrier, 39 



„ melanite varieties of, 41 



Motacilla boarula, 163 

 ,, flava, 164 

 ,, ro-yi, 165 



,, yarrelli, 160 

 iliiscicajia atricapilla, 66 



,, grisola, 65 

 Mules — cross-bred birds so called, 

 221, 223, 360 

 „ ditto, as applied to hens in 



cocks' pliunage, 369 



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Nests, singularly constructed, or in 

 straneie localities, 56, 65, 81, 82, 

 84, 117, 140, 145, 219, 269, 296, 

 297, 302, 326, 407 



Nightingale, 123 



Nightjar, 348 



Noctua passeri7ia, 59 

 „ tengmalmi, 60 



Nucifraca caryocatactes, 281 



Nutcracker, 281 



Nuthatch, 301 







Olf blood, 234 



„ green, 221 

 Orange-legged Hobby, 20 

 Oriole golden, 86 

 Oriolus galbida, 86 

 Ortolan Bunting (not Norfolk), 199 

 Ortyx vircfinianus, 436 

 Osprey, 5 

 Otus brachyotiis, 50 



„ vulgaris, 44 

 Ouzel ring, 84 

 Owl American mottled, 44 



„ bam, 51 



„ eagle, 47 



„ little, 59 



„ long-eared, 44 



., scop's-eared, 42 



„ short-eared, 50 



„ snowy, 57 



„ tawny, 54 



„ tengmalm's, 60 

 Owls, catching fish, 53, 56 



„ useful to farmers, 46, 52, 54 



„ nesting in confinement, 47, 59 



Pallas's Sand Grouse, 376 



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Pandion halicBetus, 5 

 Parrot crossbill, 239 

 Partridge, Barbary, 405 



„ common or grey, 420 



„ large " bags" of, made in 



Norfolk, 423 

 „ red-legged or French, 404 



„ shooting, old and new style 



compared, 424 

 Parus ater, 146 

 „ caudatus, 148 

 „ ccBruleus, 142 

 „ major, 139 

 „ palustris, 147 

 Passer montanus, 206 

 ,. domesticus, 209 

 Pastor rose us, 253 

 Pastor rose-coloured, 253 

 Pel John, the falconer, 14 

 Penrice's, the late Rev. C, collection 



of birds, at Plumstead, 311 

 Perdix cinerea, 420 

 „ petrosa, 405 

 ,, rufa, 404 

 Perdrix de marais, 419 

 Peregrine Falcon, 9 



„ hawking with, 13 

 Pernis apivorus, 32 

 Phasianus colchicus, 361 

 ,, torquatus, 365 

 ,, versicolor, 365 

 Pheasant Bohemian, var., 367 

 „ common, 361 

 „ „ cross with Black 



Grouse, 375 

 „ „ ditto with Barn door 



Fowls, 368 

 „ „ ditto with ringnecked 



Chinese, 365 

 „ „ ditto with Japanese, 



365 

 „ shooting, the " battue," 370 

 Pkoenicura rziticilla, 98 

 „ suecica, 96 



tithys, 99 

 Philomela luscinia, 123 

 Pica caudata, 280 

 Picus major, 288 

 „ martius, 291 

 ,. minor, 293 

 ,, vindis, 285 

 Pickcheese, 142 

 Pied Flycatcher, 66 



„ Wagtail, 160 

 Pigeons, wonderful powers of flight of, 

 359 



