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Index 



Swans [^cygnincE^ — 



Age, long life of swans, 260. 



Black swan found in Australia, 

 260. 



Characteristics, 258-260. 



Currituck Bay decoy, 206, 208. 



Diagnosis of family, 571. 



Distinction from other birds of 

 family, 258. 



Mute swan, 259, 260. 



Pacific coast, 551. 



South American swan, 260. 



Trumpeter swan, 265. 



Whistling swan, see that title. 



Whooping swan, 267. 

 Symphemia seiiiipahnata, willet, 421. 

 Symphetnia setnipalmata ijiornata, 

 western willet, 424. 



Tampico, black-bellied tree-duck, 



1 901, 254. 

 Tattler, wandering, 425. 

 Teal — 



Blue-winged, 99. 

 Cinnamon teal, see that title. 

 Green-winged teal, see that title. 

 Totantts flavipes, lesser yellowlegs, 



412. 

 Totanus melanoleucus, greater yel- 

 lowlegs, 407. 

 Totanus melanoleimis frazari, gray 



yellowlegs, 410. 

 Totanus nebularius, European 



greenshank, 405. 

 Totanus totanus, common redshank, 



415. 

 Tree-duck — 



Black-bellied, 253. 

 Fulvous tree-duck, 255, 514. 

 Relation to anserina, 21'j. 

 Tringa acuminata, sharp-tailed 



sandpiper, 368. 

 Tringa alpina, dunlin, 381. 

 Tringa alpina pacifica, red-backed 

 sandpiper, 382. 



Tringa hairdii, Baird's sandpiper, 



376. 

 Tringa canutus, knot, 357. 

 Tringa cooperi, Cooper's sandpiper, 



370- 



Tringa darnacensis, long-toed stint, 

 380. 



Tringa ferruginea, curlew sand- 

 piper, 385, 



Tringa fuscicollis, white-rumped 

 sandpiper, 373. 



Tringa tnaculata, see Pectoral sand- 

 piper. 



Tringa j)iaritima, purple sandpiper, 

 362. 



Tringa minutilla, least sandpiper, 



377- 



Tringa ptilocnemis, Pribilof sand- 

 piper, 367. 



Tringa ptilocnemis couesi, Aleutian 

 sandpiper, 365. 



Trumpeter swan \_olor buccinator'] 

 265. 



Tryngites subruficollis, buff-breasted 

 sandpiper, 430. 



Turnstone \arenaria interpres] 

 482. 

 Diagnosis of family, 578. 



Turnstone, black, 487. 



Vanellus vanellits, lapwing, 452. 

 Velvet scoter \oidemia fusca\ 

 176. 

 Diet, Heligoland instance, 177. 

 Netting, 178. 

 Virginia rail \_rallus virginianus'] 

 281. 



Waders, Pacific coast, 557. 

 Wading the marshes, shore-bird 



shooting, 312. 

 Wandering tattler \Jieteractitis in- 



canus~\ 425. 

 Wat Green, duck-shooting on James 



River, 28. 



