INDEX. 



479 



Ptarmagan, its mode of escaping 



birds of prey, 162 

 Puff-backed Shrike, 179 

 Puffin and Raven, 200 



or Sea Parrot, 454 



how caught, 454 



Purres, 359 



Quails, 316 



Rails, 335 



Rain, why Swallows fly low during, 



268 



Rapacious birds, 98 

 Rapidity of flight, 76 

 Raven, notices of the, 195 



tame, 201 



tame, in a wild state, 205 



and Jackdaws, 196 



and Puffin, 200 



attachment to a dog, 203, 384 



Razor-bill, 454 



chased by a Hawk, 456 



Rearing Pheasants, 306 



Redbreast builds in a dining-room 



curtain, 264 

 in a school-house, 



254 



in a church, 255 



frequenting some particular 



place, 257 



Red-legged Crow, 222, 433 

 Redpole and Goldfinch, 236 

 Redstart's nest in the hinge of a 



door, 253 

 Redwing, 180 

 Ring-Dotterel, 359 

 Rooks, 206 

 Rookeries, 219 

 occasional desertion of, 220 



contentions in, 221 



Ropes of hide used in St. Kilda, 467 



Sacred Ibis, 373 

 Sandpipers on the sea-shore, 359 

 Screamer, Horned, Palamadea, 335 

 Sea-birds, feeding on fish, 414 



found far out at sea, 81, 



449 



found inland, 449 



trade in, 465 



Swallow, or Tern, 427 



Senses, acuteness of the, in birds of 



prey, 126 



Sitta Europaea, Nuthatch, 283 

 Sheldrake builds in rabbit-holes, 403 

 Shoveller Duck's bill, 31 



of New Holland, 32 



Shrike, or Butcher-bird, 29, 171 

 used for hawking, 177 



Skeleton of a bird, 27, 37 

 Skimmer (Rhynchops), 426 

 Snake-eater, Vultur serpentarius, 131 

 Snipe's attachment to place, 368 

 mode of feeding, 



Snowy Owl, habits of the, 161 

 Solan Goose, 55, 423 

 Song in birds pleasurable, 65 

 South Stack, punctual return of sea- 

 birds to the, 95, 434 



Lighthouse, birds killed 



by flying against, 371 

 Razor-bills and Guille. 



mots at the, 455 

 Sparrow, boldness, of, 243 



sociability of, 245 



aflection for their young. 246 



singular death of a, 247 



nest in a church, 256 



Sparrow-Hawk, mode of catching, 147 

 dwelling with Pi- 



geons, 153 

 Spiders, height to which they ascend 



in the air, 268 



Spoon-bill, shot at Holyhead, 354 

 's beak, 35 



St. Kilda, bird-catchers of, 467 

 Stanley Crest explained, 106 

 Starlings, habits of, 230 

 Stomach, Heron's, 339 

 Stork, 341 



kills its faithless mate, 344 

 Strength of the Condor, 128 



birds and bones, 35 



Swallow's bill, 33 



singular nest, 93 

 occasionally detained, 96 

 different species, 260 

 if ever found dormant, 261 

 migration of, 266 

 quantity of insects eat by, 



267 



nest in a bell, and in a 



lamp, 269 



