INDEX. 
A 
American Bittern, 174 
- Little Stint, 366 
Ardea alba, 149 
s cinerea, 130 
> comata, \51 
> garzetta, 150 
> purpurea, 145 
>» russata, 151 
Avocet, 237 
B 
Baillon’s Crake, 401 
Bar-tailed Godwit, 253 
Battue Coot shooting, 431 
Bideock—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, 377, 392, 395, 
438 
» Migratory, returning to same 
spot, 283, 291 
», netting of in the fens and on the 
coast, 111, 124, 376 
> parasites of, 348 
» trustworthy as weather guides, 
66 
» varieties of—see VARIETIES 
»» Various notes of in each species, 
93, 197, 341 
»  Varlous species migrating in 
eras 71, 73, 74, 75, 90, 
Birds—wholesale destruction of, and 
their eggs, deprecated, 79, 89, 
104, 106, 170, 207, 263, 
281, 308, 312 
Bittern American, 174 
35 common, 159 
5 es hawking of, 173 
» little, 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 
5 minutus, 154 
y} stellaris, 159 
Bottleybump or Bittern, 166 
Broads, sunset on the, 163 
Broad-billed Sandpiper, 359 
Brown Snipe, 348 
Browne Sir Thomas, collection of eggs, 
&e., 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 
C 
Calidris arenaria, 116 
Cambridge Godwit, 204 
Carolina Crake in England, 392 
Cayenne Night Heron, supposed spe- 
cimen of, 175 
