588 



Index 



Hcemaiopus frazeri, Frazer's oyster- 

 catcher, 493. 



Hamatopus ostralegus, European 

 oyster-catcher, 490. 



Hamatopus palliatus, American 

 oyster-catcher, 491. 



Hooded merganser [lophodytes cucul- 

 latus\ 197. 

 Contest with wood duck for nest, 

 198. 



Hospital Point, battery-shooting, 



35- 

 Hudsonian curlew \jiuinenius hud- 



sonicus\ 440. 

 Hudsonian godwit \limosa hczmas- 



tica\ 400. 

 Hunting, see Duck-shooting, Goose- 



-shooting, etc. 

 Hutchins' goose \branta cana- 

 densis hutchinsii\ 239. 

 Hybrids — 



Canada goose, 5, 239. 

 Characteristics, 5, 203. 

 Interbreeding among wild fowl, 



201-203. 

 Mallard, 75, 201-202. 



Ice-hole duck-shooting, 60. 

 Iceland — 



Knot eggs taken in 1890, 362. 

 Protection to breeding eiders, 4. 

 Interbreeding among wild fowl, 

 201-203. 

 \_See also Hybrids.] 

 lonornis martinica, purple gallinule, 



294. 

 Irrigated land, fondness of water- 

 fowl for, 511. 



Jacana spinosa, Mexican jacana, 497. 

 Jacanas \^jacanid(e\ — 



Asia, species found in, 497. 



Characteristics of family, 496. 



Diagnosis of family, 579. 



Mexican, 497. 



Jamaica, abundance of clapper 



rail, 281. 

 James River — 



Broadbill flocks, 140. 

 Canvas-back resort, 130. 

 Duck-shooting, 28. 

 Sora rail hunting, 288. 

 Jim Bosworth, goose-shooting in 

 the stubbles, 209. 



Killdeer plover \_(rgialitus vocifera'] 

 464. 



King eider \^so>nateria spectabilis'\ 

 172. 



King rail [^rallus elegans'] 274. 



Knot, tringa cantitus, 357. 



Krieker, name for pectoral sand- 

 piper, 313, 371. 



Labrador duck [caniptolaiinus lab- 

 rador ills'] 160. 

 New York museum collection, 



162. 

 Rareness of, 161. 

 Webster, D., birds killed by, 

 161. 

 Lake Erie, canvas-back shooting, 



52. 

 Lapwing \yanellus vanellus'] 452. 

 Least sandpiper l/ringa minu- 



tilla-\ 377. 

 Lesser scaup duck \aythya affinis] 



137- 



Lesser snow goose \_chen hyper- 

 borea~\ 219. 



Lesser yellowlegs {^totanus Jla- 

 vipes~\ 412. 



LimicolcE, see Shore-birds. 



Limosa fedoa, marbled godwit, 395. 



Limosa hcsmastica, Hudsonian god- 

 wit, 400. 



Limosa lapponica batieri. Pacific 

 godwit, 397. 



Limosa limosa, black-tailed godwit, 



403- 



