478 



INDEX. 



Migration, queries respecting, 86, 256 



Mocking-Bird, 60 



Muscular power of the wing of a 



bird, 73, 470 

 Music attracts Nightingales, 259 



Narrow-beaked, Pressirostral, 325 

 Nest, Blackbird's, by a rabbit's seat, 

 183 



Eagle's, 110 



other birds build in Eagle's 



120 



curious, of a Thrush, 181 



rapidity of building, 237 



curious one of African Finches, 



233 



of Sparrows and Redbreast, 



244, 254 



of Titmouse, singular place for 



one, 252 



of a Redstart, 253 



Swallow's, in a lamp, 269 



in a bell, 270 



not always of mud, 272 



eatable, 272 



Pigeons, 301 



Ostrich, 319 



Water-Hen, 326, 328 



Solan Goose, 424 



Albatross, 445, 464 



same frequented by same birds, 



season after season, 269 



Night, birds sing during, 259 

 Nightingales, migration of, 257 



tame, 88 



removal of eggs by, 368 



Nuthatch, Sitta Europsea, 283 



Oil on feathers, use of, 69 

 Oriole, Golden, 229 

 Ostrich, substances found in the 

 stomach of one, 47 



affectionate disposition of the, 



320 



modes of catching, 320 



Oxen destroyed by Eagles, 115 

 Owls, particulars respecting, 157 



remove their young, 368 



Oyster-Catchers, 336 



Palamadea cornuta, or Horned 

 Screamer, 335 



Palmipedes, web-footed, 376, 411 

 Park, Mungo, anecdote of, 1 

 Parrots, 295 



beak described, 29 



Parroquets, 295 



Partridge and Turkey associate, 311 



tame, 313 



in North America, 314 



how taken in the East, 



316 



Paradise, Bird of, 193 



Passerine order, 229 



Peacocks formerly prized as dainties. 

 308 



Pelican's beak, 35 



traditions of, 411 



and Cormorant, fishing in 



partnership, 413 



Penguin, 460 



stones swallowed by, 52 



selection for breeding- 

 place, 464 



Petrel, 85, 446 



used as a candle, 447 



Stormy, sailors' superstition 



of, 448 



found inland, 449 



Sooty, 458 



Pheasant attacks a lady, 304 



directions for rearing them,. 



306 



Pigeons living peaceably with a 

 Hawk, 153 



Carrier, 192 



Passenger, 297 



mode of catching in the 



Pyrenees, 301 



Wood, 302 



-'s nest by a li tter of kittens, 



302 



Platypus, Duck-billed, 31 

 Ptiloris Paradiscus, plumage of, 66 

 Plover, Stilted, 42 

 Egyptian, anecdote of the, 



362 



Plumage of Birds considered, 66, 6ft 

 -, change of colour, 71 



Pouch of the Bustard, 318 



Emu, 322 



Hurgila, use of, 351 



Poultry tribe, 296 



Pressirostral, or Narrow-beaked, 325 



