Index 



595 



Shore-birds \^coniintted'\ — 

 Pacific coast, 557. 

 Phalaropes, see thai title. 

 Plovers, see that title. 

 Ringed plovers, see that title. 

 Sandpipers, see that title. 

 Shooting, see Shore-bird shoot- 

 ing. 

 Snipe, see that title. 

 Species found in North America, 



319. 



Stilts, see that title. 



Surf bird, see that title. 



Turnstone, see that title. 



Wilson's snipe, see that title. 



Woodcocks, see that title. 



Yellowlegs, see that title. 

 Shoveller \_spatula clypeata'\ 105. 

 Siberian coast, Steller's duck resort, 



164. 

 Skag, boat for duck-shooting, 52. 

 Smew {^mergus albellus'] 199. 

 Snipe — 



Diagnosis of family, 573. 



Dowitcher, 349. 



European, 341. 



Great, 346. 



Red-bellied, 352. 



Red-breasted, 348. 



Wilson's snipe, see that title. 

 Snow goose — 



Greater, 223. 



Lesser, 219. 



Pacific coast, 541, 543. 



Ross's, 227. 

 Snowy plover \_agialitis nivosa'] 473. 

 Solitary sandpiper \_helodromas soli- 



taritis'] 416. 

 Solitary sandpiper, western, 419. 

 Somateria dresseri, American eider, 



168. 

 Somateria mollissima borealis, north- 

 ern eider, 166. 

 Somateria spectabilis, king eider, 

 172. 



Somateria v-nigra, Pacific eider, 

 170, 



Sora, Carolina rail, 285. 



South America — 



Steamer-duck, species of sea- 

 duck, 120. 

 Swan, peculiar method of catch- 

 ing, 260. 



Spatula clypeata, shoveller, 105-109. 



Spectacled eider \_arctonetta Jischeri^ 

 165. 



Spoon-bill \_eurynorhynchus pyg- 

 7H(£MS~\ 387. 

 Pacific coast, 517, 



Spotted crake \_porzana porzand\ 

 284. 



Spotted sandpiper \_aditis macu- 

 laria'] 432. 



Sprigtail, name for pintail duck, 521. 



Spring shooting, abolition necessary, 

 65-70. 



Squatarola squatarola, black-bellied 

 plover, 456. 



Steamer-duck — 



American merganser, 193. 

 Sea-duck species, 120. 



Steganoptis tricolor, Wilson's phala- 

 rope, 327. 



Stejneger, Dr., manner of catching 

 rail in Mauritius, 1675, 



273- 

 Steller's duck [^eniconetta stelleri'\ 



162. 

 Stilt sandpiper S^micropcelama himan- 



iopiis'\ 355- 

 Stilts \_recurvirostrid(f\ — 

 Black-necked, 333. 

 Characteristics of family, 330. 

 Diagnosis of family, 573. 

 Stint, long-toed, 380. 

 Stubble fields, goose-shooting, 209. 

 Surf bird \_aphriza vi?gata'\ 481. 



Diagnosis of family, 578. 

 Surf scoter \oidemia perspicillata'\ 

 182. 



