44J 



Missel Thrush, 74 

 Montagu's Hai'rier, 39 



„ melanite varieties of, 41 



Motacllla hoarula, 163 

 „ flava, 164 

 „ rayi, 165 



„ yarrelli, 160 



Muscicapa atricapilla, 66 



„ grisola, 65 

 Mules — cross-bred birds so called, 

 221, 223, 360 

 „ ditto, as applied to heus in 



cocks' phunage, 369 



N 

 Nests, singularly constructed, or in 



strange localities, 56, 65, 81, 82, 



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



297, 302, 326, 407 

 Nightingale, 123 

 Nightjar, 348 

 Noctua passerina, 59 



„ tengmalmi, 60 

 Nucifraca caryocatactes, 281 

 Nutcracker, 281 

 Nuthatch, 301 



Olf blood, 234 



„ green, 221 

 Orange-legged Hobby, 20 

 Oriole golden, 86 

 Oriolus galbula, 86 

 Ortolan Bunting (not Norfolk), 199 

 Ortyx virginiamis, 436 

 Osprey, 5 

 Otus brachyotus, 50 



„ vulgaris, 44 

 Ouzel ring, 84 

 Owl American mottled, 44 



„ barn, 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 haliaetus, 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 

 Farm ater, 146 

 „ caudatus, 148 

 „ ccerideus, 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, coUectioa 



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, 36] 

 „ „ cross with Black 



Grouse, 375 

 „ „ ditto with Barn door 



Fowls, 368 

 „ „ ditto with ringnecked 



Chinese, 365 

 „ „ ditto with Japanese, 



365 

 „ , shooting, the " battue," 370 

 Phoenicura ruticilla, 98 

 „ suecica, 96 



tithys, 99 

 Philomela luscinia, 123 

 Pica caudata, 280 

 Picus major, 288 

 „ martius, 291 

 ,, minor, 293 

 „ viridis, 285 

 Pickcheese, 142 

 Pied Flycatcher, 66 



„ WagtaU, 160 

 Pigeons, wonderful powers of flight of, 

 359 



