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INDEX. 



Platalea Leucorodia, 418. 



Plover. Cream-coloured, the Courser, 

 377. 



Dotterel, or Ringed, 386. 



Golden, Whistling, or Yellow, 

 381. 



Great, Norfolk, or Stone, 378. 



Green, or Lapwing, 393. 



Grey, 390. 



Kentish, 389. 



Little Ringed, 390. 



Long-legged, the Stilt. 

 4 Norfolk, 378. 



Ringed, or Ring-necked, 386. 

 Plover's Page, the Purple Sandpiper, 

 Pochard, 515. 

 Podiceps auritus, 532. 



cornutus, 531. 



cristatus, 529. 



minor, 532. 



rubricollis, 531. 

 Poke-pudding, the Long-tailed Tit, 



166. 



Pocker, or Poker, the Pochard. 

 Poland Goose, the Canada Goose. 

 Polish Swan, 489. 

 Pomarine Skua, or Gull, 593. 

 Poor-willie, the Godwit. 

 Poor-wren, the Moor-fowl. 

 Pop, the Redwing. 

 Pope, the Puffin. 



Popinjay, the Green Woodpecker. 

 Port-Egmont Hen, the Common Skua. 

 Post-bird, the Spotted Flycatcher. 

 Pratincole, Austrian, or Collared, 380. 

 Procellaria glacialis, 597. 



heesitata, 598. 

 Provence Furzeling, the Dartford 



Warbler. 



Proud-tailor, the Goldfinch. 

 Ptarmigan, White or Grey, 355. 



hunted by Hawk Owl, 59. 



Brown, the Red Grouse. 

 Pterocles Alchata, 368. 

 Puckeridge, the Nightjar. 

 Pudding-poke, the Long-tailed Tit. 

 Puffin, 547. This name is in some 

 places given to the Dabchick, in 

 others to the Thick-billed Guillemot. 

 Puffinet, the Black Guillemot. 

 Puffinus Anglorum, 599. 



major, 601. 



obscurus, 602. 

 Puput, 310. 

 Purple Heron, 409. 



Martin, 284. 



Sandpiper, 459. 

 Purre, the Dunlin. 

 Puttock, the Buzzard, and Kite. 

 Pyrrhula Enucleator, 225. 



vulgaris, 222. 

 Pywipe, the Lapwing. 

 Primaries, the quills, usually ten, 

 of the terminal joint of a bird's 

 wing. - 



Qua, the Night Heron. 



Quail, American, the Colin. 



Andalusian, Gibraltar or 

 Three-toed, the Hemipode. 

 Common, 366. 



Quaketail, the Wagtail. 



Queest, or Quest, the Ring-dove. 



Queet, the Coot and Guillemot. 



Quickness of sight in Gulls, 583. 



Quills, the large feathers of the wing, 

 called primary, or digital; secondary, 

 or cubital ; and tertiary, or humeral ; 

 according as they arise from the ter- 

 minal, middle, or inner joint. 



Quill-coverts, a row of feathers im- 

 mediately covering the base of the 

 quills above and below, and there- 

 fore called upper and under. 



Quinck, the Goose. 



Rafter-bird, the Spotted Flycatcher. 

 Rail, Land, 460. 



Water, 463. 



Rain-bird, the Green Woodpecker. 

 Rain Goose, the Red-throated Diver, 

 Rallus aquaticus, 463. 

 Raptores, Birds of Prey. 

 Rasores, Gallinaceous Birds. 

 Rattle-wings, the Golden-eye. 

 Raven, 239. 

 Ray's Wagtail, 169. 

 Razor-biU, 550. 

 Recurvirostra Avocetta, 432. 

 Red-backed Shrike, 63. 

 Red- billed Heron, the Buff-backed 



Heron. 



Redbreast or Robin, 95. 

 Red-breasted Goosander or Merganser, 

 526. 



Goose, 483. 



Snipe, the Bar-tailed Godwit 



and Brown Snipe. 

 Redcap, the Goldfinch. 

 Red-crested Pochard or Whistling 



Duck, 514. 



Red Duok, the Ferruginous Duck. 

 Red-footed Hobby, 22. 

 Red Game, or Red Grouse, 351. 



Godwit, the Bar-tailed Godwit. 



Grouse, 351. 



Red-headed Linnet, the Common Lin- 

 net and Redpole, 



Pochard, the Common Po- 

 chard. 



Wigeon, the Common Wigeon. 

 Red Hoop, the Bullfinch. 

 Red-legged Crow, the Chough. 

 Red-legged Godwit, the Spotted Sand- 

 Gull, the Black-headed Gull, 

 577. 



Partridge, 363. 

 Red-legs, the Redshank. 

 Red-necked Coot-foot, Lobe-foot, or 



Phalarope. 473. 



Grebe, 531. 

 Red Phalarope, 473. 



