Index 



591 



Pacific coast [continued'\ — 

 Ducks \_co7ttinued'] — 



Widgeon, 526, 530. 



Wood-duck, 514. 

 Geese — 



Abundance in recent years, 



533- 

 Canada goose, 533. 

 Difficulties of hunting, 532. 

 Occasional, 543. 

 Salt-water goose, 544. 

 Snow goose, 541, 543. 

 White-fronted goose, 539, 



544- 

 Sand-hill crane, 553. 

 Shore-birds, 557. 

 Swan hunting, 551. 

 Waders, 557. 

 Pacific eider \_so>nateria v-nigra'\ 



170. 

 Pacific godwit \^limosa lapponica 



baueriA^ 397. 

 Pacific golden plover \_charadrius 



dominicus fulvus\ 463. 

 Pass shooting — 



Locations, etc., 12. 

 North Dakota recollections, 13. 

 Pavoiuella pugnax, ruff, 426. 

 Pearson's Pond, duck-shooting, 50. 

 Pectoral sandpiper \_tringa macu- 

 lata] — 

 Characteristics, 370-373. 

 Shooting on the marshes, 313. 

 Phalaropes \J)halaropodidcE'\ — 

 Characteristics, 319. 

 Diagnosis of family, 573. 

 Northern, 323. 

 Red, 320. 

 Wilson's, 327. 

 Phalaropus lobatus. Northern phala- 



rope, 323. 

 Pkilacte canagica. Emperor goose, 



251. 

 Philohela minor, American wood- 

 cock, 340. 



Pied-duck, see Labrador duck. 

 Pintail [dajila act{fa'\ 109. 



Hybrids with mallard, 75, 202. 



Pacific coast, 521. 

 Piping plover [^crgialilis tnelodd] 471. 

 Piping plover, belted, 473. 

 Plovers \^cha>-adriid(E~\ — 



American golden plover, 462. 



Belted piping, 473. 



Black-bellied, 456. 



Characteristics of family, 451- 



452- 

 Diagnosis of family, 576. 

 Dotterel, 454. 

 European golden, 461. 

 European ring, 469. 

 Golden plover, see that title. 

 Killdeer, 464. 

 Lapwing, 452. 

 Little ring, 470. 

 Mongolian, 475. 

 Mountain, 478. 

 Pacific golden plover, 463. 



Piping. 471- 



Ringed plover, see that title. 

 Semipalmated, 466. 

 Snowy, 473. 

 Wilson's, 477. 

 " Plovers' eggs " laid by lapwing, 453. 

 Porzana Carolina, Carolina rail, 284. 

 Porzana coturnicidus, farallone rail, 



292. 

 Porzana jamaicensis, black rail, 291. 

 Porzana noveboracensis, yellow rail, 



288. 

 Porzana porzana, spotted crake, 284. 

 Pribilof Islands, turnstone, 4S6, 

 Pribilof sandpiper \_tringa ptilocne- 



mis'] 367. 

 Prince Edward's Island, blackbreast- 



shooting, 458. 

 Purple gallinule \_ionornis inartin- 



ica'\ 294. 

 Purple sandpiper [^tringa mariti>na'\ 

 362. 



