418 



INDEX. 



Little Egret, Appendix D, 414 



„ Grebe, 256 



,, ,, destroyed by pike, 261 



, flight of, 258 



„ „ mode of progression of 



very young, 284 \ 



„ Gull, 320 

 Long-tailed Duck, 216 

 Loxia hifasciata. Appendix D, 413 



„ curvlrostra. Appendix B, 389 



„ piiyopsittacus. Appendix B, 391 



M I 



Manx Shearwater, 365 ' 



Meadow Starling, American, Appendix 



D, 413 

 Meliozopliilus dartfordiensis, 387 

 Meres, Stanford and Thompson, 139 



„ Wretham, 142 

 Merganser, Hooded, 228 



Red-breasted, 226 

 Mergulus alle, 281 

 Mergus albeUus, 224 

 „ anatarius, 221 

 „ cucuUatiis, 228 

 „ merganser, 229 

 „ serrator, 226 

 Motacilla alba. Appendix A, 378 

 MusclcajM parva. Errata 

 Mute Swan, 58 



„ ,, age attained by, 86 



„ fatting, 97 

 „ „ marking, 92 



„ marks, 93, 102 

 „ „ misnamed " Mute," 86 

 „ „ nesting habits of, 63 

 „ „ prolific, 69 

 „ „ to roast, 98 

 „ „ St. Helen's Swanpit, 96 

 „ „ service in destroying water 



weeds, 81 

 „ „ " upping," 88 

 „ „ weight of, 81 



N 



Noetua tengmalmi. Appendix B, 385 

 Norfolk decoys, 170 



,, swan marks, 102 

 Northumberland Househould Book, 99 

 Nyroca Duck, 208 



O 



(Edemiafusca, 195 

 „ nigra, 197 



(Edemia perspicillata, 197, Note 



(Estrelata hcesiiata, 361 



Origin of " Close Time Committee" of 



the British Association, 237, Note 

 Ortolan, Appendix A, 379 

 Otis tarda. Appendix B, 396 

 Otocorys alpestris. Appendix B, 388 

 Owl, American Mottled, Appendix D, 



413 

 Owl, Tengmalm's, Appendix B, 885 



P 



Paget's Pochard, 207 

 Pafias's Sand Grouse, Appendix B, 392 

 Parrot Crossbill, Appendix B, 391 

 Pelican, 295 



„ fossil, 296 

 Petrel, Capped, 361 

 „ Fork-tailed, 369 

 „ Fubiar, 359 

 „ Storm, 371 

 Phalacrocorax carlo, 287 



„ graculus, 290 



Pike destructive to Wild Fowl, 261, 327 

 Pine Grosbeak, Appendix C, 410 

 Piuk-footed Goose, 14 

 Pintail Duck, 163 

 Pipit, Rock, Appendix B, 387 

 Plectropteriis gambensis, 44 

 Plover, Caspian, Appendix A, 382 

 Plover, Eastern Golden, Appendix C, 



411 

 Pochard, Common, 201 



nests of, 204 

 Paget's, 207 

 Red Crested, 199 

 Pochard, Grass, 203 

 Fodicipes auritus, 248 

 ,, cristatus, 233 

 „ jluviatHis, 256 

 ,, griseigena, 245 

 ,, nigricoUis, 250 

 Polish Swan, 111 

 "Popeler," 135, Note 

 Pomatorhine Skua, 348 

 Porphyria smaragdonotus. Appendix C, 



411 

 Pratincole, Appendix B, 407 

 Procellaria leucorrhoa, 369 



,, pelagica, 371 

 Puffin, 284 



„ Small-billed, 284, Note 

 Puffinus anglorum, 365 

 „ griseus, 364 

 „ obscurus, 367 



