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INDEX. 



Plover great, 51 



greea or Lapwing, 103 



golden, 66 



grey, 101 



Kentish, 97 



little-ringed, 96 



netting of in the fens. 111 



Norfolk, 51 



ringed, 84 



small race of, 95 

 Pratincole collared, 64 

 Purple Heron, 145 

 „ Sandpiper, 384 



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Eail land, 387 



„ water, 404 

 Rallus aquaticus, 404 

 Recurvirostra avocetta, 237 

 Red-breasted Snipe, 348 

 Eedleg or Redshank, 213 

 Redshank common, 207 

 spotted, 203 

 Red-necked Phalarope, 439 

 Reeve, 261 

 Ringed Plover, 84 



„ small race of, 95 



Ringlestones, 86 

 Ruff, 261 



Sabine's Snipe, 343 



" Sand-flood," strange record of at 



San ton Downham, 17 

 Sanderling, 116 

 Sandpiper broad-billed, 359 

 buff-breasted, 358 



„ common, 230 



„ curlew, 350 



„ green, 215 



„ pectoral, 367 



„ purple, 384 



„ spotted, 233 



„ wood, 226 



„ yellow- shanked, 215 

 Seolopax brehmi, 333 



,, gaUinago, 305 



,, galUnula, 334 



„ major, 299 



„ rnssata, 332 



„ rusticola, 272 



„ sabinii, 343 

 Sea Woodcock, 260 

 Sea Dotterel, 86 



Sea-pie, 122 



" Shoeinghorn," or Avocet, 237 

 Shovelard or Spoonbill, 184 

 Snipe common, 305 



„ „ abundance of at times, 



326 



„ „ causes of diminution in, 



308 



„ „ "drumming" of, 315 



„ „ large race of, 331 



„ „ perching on trees, 328 



Snipe brown, 348 



„ great, 299 



„ grey, 348 



„ jack, 334 



,, ,, abundance of at times, 338 



„ martin, 224 



„ red-breasted, 348 



„ Sabine's, 343 



„ summer, 224, 230 

 " Solitary" Snipe, 299 

 Spoonbill, 184 

 Spotted Crake, 393 



Redshank, 203 



„ Sandpiper, 233 

 Spowes or "Whimbrel, 201 

 Squatarola cinerea, 101 

 Squacco Heron, 151 

 " Stale," origin of the term, 267 

 Stilt blackwinged, 244 

 Stints or Dunlins, 373 

 Stint American little, 366 



„ little, 361 



,, Temminck's, 363 

 Stone Curlew, 51 

 Stonehatch, 85 

 Stork black, 182 



„ white, 177 

 Strepsilas interpres, 113 

 Summer Snipe, 224, 230 

 Sunset on the broads, 163 



Tangle-picker, 114 



Telegraph-wires destructive to birds, 

 68, 277, 334, 377, 392, 395, 438 

 Temminck's Stint, 363 

 Totanus calidris, 207 



„ flavijies, 215 



„ fuscus, 203 



,, glariola, 226 



„ glottis, 234 



,, tigpoleucus, 230 



„ macularius, 233 



„ ochropus, 215 



