298 NAME INDEX 



Owls — continued. 



Marsh, 63 



Bush, 65, 68 



Cape Eagle, 66, 68 



Spotted Eagle, 67, 68, 69 ; superstition respecting, 68 



Giant Eagle, 69 



Little Scops, 70 



Pearl-spotted, 70 

 Oxpeckers (Tick-Birds), 197 



Yellow-billed, 199 



Red-billed, 199 



Oystercatcher. See Limicolae 



Parrots, 185-186 



Red-shouldered, 185 



Brown-headed, 185 



Meyer's, 186 



Rosy -faced Lovebird, 186 



Black-cheeked Lovebird, 186 

 Pelicans, 235-236 



Eastern White, 235 



Pink-backed, 236 

 Penduline Tits (Kappok-vogel), 131-132 ; the neatest architects of 

 the avian world, 131 ; object of shallow pouch in nest, 131, 132 



Cape, 131, 132 



Transvaal, 132 

 Penguins. See Impennes 

 Photographing experiences, 97, 179 

 Pipits, 202-203 



Tree, 202 ; a migrant, 202 



Cinnamon-backed (Koester), 203 



Lesser Tawny (Koester), 203 



Vaal River (Koester), 203 



Golden, 203 

 Plaintain-eaters, 182-185 



Knysna Plantain-eater (Common Lourie), 182, 184 ; high per- 

 centage of copper in its wings, 183 



Livingstone's Lourie, 183 



Purple-crested Lourie, 183 



" Go-away," or Groote Muisvogel, 185 

 Plovers and Lapwings, 221-224, 257-259, 264 



Blacksmith Plover, 221 ; origin of name, 221 



Crowned Lapwing, 222, 223 



Black-winged Plover, 222, 224 



Three-banded Plover (Strand-looper), 257, 258 



Sand Plover, 259 



