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INDEX 



Christmas-tree, birds', 261 

 Clark, Neil, 86-8, 129, 131, 171 



system, 86-8 

 Cleaning plumage, 125-6 

 Cleanliness, important, 25, 38, 128, 



166 

 Clipping wing, 24, 46, 126, 184 

 Clover-leaf trap, 49 

 Clove Valley Club, 45, 86, 129, 162 

 Cocoanut feeder, 264 

 Colonies, protected, 200 

 Confinement, see Crowding 

 Connecticut State Game Farm, 14, 



40 

 Construction, light, 24 

 Control, methods, 84, 85, 87-8, 



145-7 

 Converse, Edmund C, 122, 130 

 Cook, Henry, 123, 125, 129, 136, 



157,171, 172, 195 

 Coop, 31, 42, 82, 86, 161, 167 

 Coot, or mud-hen, 154, 194-S 

 Covies, breeding in, 28 

 Cox, John A., 136,138, 154, 166, 172 

 Crab, horse-shoe, 136, 172-3 

 Crandall, L. S., 196 

 Crane, 196-7 



demoiselle, 197 



Soudan crowned, 197 

 Creeper, brown, 256 

 Creosote repels birds, 227 

 Crissel, 26, 42 

 Critical period, 46 

 Crossbill, common, 257 



white-winged, 257 

 Crow, 5, 254, 256, 260 



Clarke's crow, or nutcracker, 257 

 Crowding, 45, 77, 81 

 Crustacea, 142 

 Curd, milk, 37 

 Custard, 36-8, 40-2 



Dealers in apparatus, 214 



in stock, 11-12 



regulations for, 19-20 

 Dearborn, Ned, 250 

 Dipper, 214 

 Disease, 54 



duck, 122 



grouse, 18-19 



pheasant, 54, 76-7 



precautions, 19-20 



quail, 15-20, 46 



turkey, 68-9, 74 



Dogs, 43, 97, no, 190 

 Dove, ground, loi 



mourning, loo-i, 245 

 Drumming, 65 

 Ducks, control free, 145 



diving, sea, or marine, 116-7, 118, 

 135, 141-3, 163, 175 



edible, 117 



river, pond, fresh-water, marsh, 

 116-7, 135, 174 



wild, 1 15-180, 257, 264 



young, or ducklings, 159-179 



young in pond with adults, 144 

 Ducks, species: 



Australian duck, 139 



Bahama duck, 139 



baldpate, 117, 119, 120, 137, 



153-4, 167 

 black duck, 117, 124, 133, 137, 



139, 143, 144, 146-8, 153, 157, 



167 

 blue-bill, or broad-bill, see Scaup 



Duck 

 bufHehead, or butter-ball, 117, 



180 

 canvasback, or canvas-back, 117- 



9, 122, 135-7, 142, 153, 163, 



167, 176-7 

 coot, or sea-coot, see Scoter 

 eider, 117, 135, 142, 176 



king, 117 



northern, 117 



fish duck, see Merganser 

 Florida duck, 117 

 gadwall, 117, 119-20, 123, 137, 



139, 150, 153, 157, 167, 177 

 golden-eye, 117, 163, 173, 175, 177- 



178 

 Barrow's, 117 

 harlequin duck, 117 

 Labrador duck, 180 

 mallard, 117, 119, 124-6, 131, 



133, 137, 139, 145-7, 149, 152-S, 



157, 160, 163, 167, 177-8 

 mandarin duck, 137, 139, 154, 



156-7, 163, 166 

 merganser, 117, 119, 142 

 old-squaw, 117 

 Pekin duck, 122, 157 

 pintail, 117, 119-20, 124, 133, 137, 



139, 150, 153-5, 167, 177 

 pochard, 135, 150 

 redhead, 117-9, 136-7, 139-40, 



142, 153-4, 157, 167, 176 



