Index 



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Water-fowl [^anatida:'] — 

 Albinos, 204. 

 Avocets, see that title. 

 Characteristics, i. 

 Colorado River, mouth of, con- 

 gregation of birds, 558- 

 564. 

 Decrease, 63. 



Market gunning, 68. 

 Protection of wild fowl, need 



of, 4-5, 66-70. 

 Restrictions as to quantity of 



game killed, 68. 

 Spring shooting, abolition 

 necessary, 65-70. 

 Diagnoses of families and genera, 



565- 

 Ducks and Duck-shooting, see 



those titles. 

 Eider, see that title. 

 Geese, see that title. 

 Goose-shooting, see that title. 

 Hybrids, see that title. 

 Interbreeding, 201-203. 

 Irrigated land, fondness of water- 

 fowl for, 511. 

 Jacanas, see that title. 

 Mergansers, see that title. 

 Mexican warfare, 4. 

 Migration, 3. 



Oyster-catchers, see that title. 

 Pacific coast, water-fowl of, see 



that title. 

 Phalaropes, see that title. 

 Plovers, see that title. 

 Rail-shooting atid Rails, see those 



titles. 

 Relation of wild fowl to domestic 



fowl, 5. 

 River-ducks, see that title. 

 Sandpipers, see that title. 

 Scoters, see that title. 

 Sea-ducks, see that title. 

 Shooting, see Duck-shooting, 



Goose-shooting, etc. 



Water-fowl \^continued~^ — 



Shore-birdsaw^ Shore-bird shoot- 

 ing, see those titles. 

 Snipe, see that title. 

 Stilts, see that title. 

 Surf bird, see that title. 

 Swans, see that title. 

 Teal, see that title. 

 Turnstone, see that title. 

 Uses as food and clothing, 4. 

 Woodcocks, see that title. 

 Yellowlegs, see that title. 

 \^See also names of species. ~\ 

 Wayne's clapper rail, 278. 

 Webster, D., Labrador duck killed 



by, 161. 

 Western sandpiper [^ereunetes occi- 



dentalis'] 391. 



Western solitary sandpiper \_helo- 



dromas solitarius cinna- 



momeus'] 419. 



Western willet {^symphemia semipal- 



mata inornata'] 424. 

 Whimbrel \^numenius ph(20pus'\ 448. 

 Whistling swan \olor Columbia 

 nus\ — 

 Characteristics, 261-264. 

 Migration incident, 259. 

 White-cheeked goose \_branta cana- 

 densis occidentalis'] 241. 

 White-fronted goose — 

 American, 228. 

 European, 228. 

 Pacific coast, 539, 544. 

 White-rumped sandpiper [tringa 



/uscicollis'\ 373. 

 White-winged scoter [oidemia de- 

 glandi'\ — 

 Description, etc., 178-182. 

 Line shooting, 180. | 

 Whooping swan [olor cygnus'] 267. 

 Widgeon, European, [^mareca penel- 



opel 89. 

 Widgeon, Pacific coast, 526, 530. 

 Wild fowl, see Water-fowl. 



