INDEX. 



A 



American Bittern, 174 



Little Stint, 366 

 Ardea alba, 149 



„ cinerea, 130 



„ comata, 151 



„ garzetta, 150 



„ purpurea, 145 



,, rzcssata, 151 

 Avocet, 237 



B 



Baillon's Crake, 401 



Bar-tailed Godwit, 253 



Battue Coot shootinp:, 431 



Bidcock— Water Rail, 404 



Birds — abundance of some species in 



hard weather, 69, 171, 285, 



356, 372, 435 

 „ attracted by gas lamps when 



migrating by night, 70, 195, 



277, 409 

 „ deformed beaks or feet in. 424 

 „ killed against lighthouses, 195, 



276, 377, 409 

 „ killed against telegraph wires, 



68, 277, 334, 37>, 392, 395, 



438 

 „ migratory, returning to same 



spot, 283, 291 

 „ netting of in the fens and on the 



coast, in, 124,376 

 „ parasites of, 348 

 „ trustworthy as weather guides, 



66 

 „ varieties of — see Varieties 

 „ various notes of in each species, 



93, 197, 341 

 „ various species migrating in 



company, 71, 73, 74, 7B, 90, 



195 



Birds — wholesale destruction of, and 

 their eggs, deprecated, 79, 89, 

 104, 106, 170, 207, 263, 

 281, 308, 312 

 Bittern American, 174 

 „ common, 159 

 „ „ hawking of, 173 



„ Httle, 154 

 Bittour or Bittern, 173 

 Blackbirds migrating with woodcocks, 



275 

 Black Curlew or Ibis, 191 

 Black-tailed Godwit, 248 

 Black- winged Stilt, 244 

 Black Stork, 182 

 Botaurus lentiginosus, 174 

 „ minutus, 154 

 „ stellaris, 159 

 Bottleybump or Bittern, 166 

 Broads, sunset on the, 163 

 Broad-billed Sandpiper, 359 

 Brown Snipe, 348 

 Browne Sir Thomas, collection of eggs, 



&c., 128 

 Buff-backed Heron, 151 

 Buff-breasted Sandpiper, 358 

 Bustard great, 1 



„ gular, pouch of, 3 



„ coursing of with greyhounds, 



22 

 „ list of local specimens and eggs 



in collections, 32 

 „ migratory habits of, 29 

 Bustard little, 42 



Calidris arenaria, 116 

 Cambridge Godwit, 204 

 Carolina Crake in England, 392 

 Cayenne Night Heron, supposed spe- 

 cimen of, 175 



