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INDEX 



Owl (Continued) 



Long-eared, 16 



Marsh. See Owl, Short-eared 



Monkey-faced. See Owl, Barn 



Richardson's, 7, 16 



Saw- whet, 16 



Screech, 16; illustration, young, 68 



Short-eared, 16 



Snowy, 16 



Western Horned, 16 



Wilson's. See Owl, Long-eared 

 Owls, economic value of, 46; reference to 

 those not included in outlawed list, 46 



Partridge. See Grouse, Ruffed and Bob- 

 white 



Partridge, Canada Spruce, 7, 15; de- 

 crease of, 32 



Partridges, law relating to, 36 

 Passerina ciris, 25 



Peabody-bird. See Sparrow, White- 

 throated. 

 Peep. See Sandpipers, Least and Semi- 



palmated. 

 Pelican, Brown, 34 



White, 12; decrease of, 31 

 Penthestes atricapillus septentrionalis, 25 

 Perching Birds, 17 



Permanent Residents, defined, 7; num- 

 ber of, 8, 9 



Permits, collecting, 36 

 Pewee, House. See Phoebe 



Western Wood, 35 



Wood, 17 

 Pheasant. See Grouse, Ruffed 



Chinese. See Pheasant, Ring- 

 necked 



English, 27 



Ring-necked, 27 

 Pheasants, law relating to, 36 

 Phalarope, Northern, 14 



Red, 35 



Wilson's, 14; decrease of, 31 

 Phalaropes, law relating to, 38 

 Phoebe, 17 

 Phytogeography, 5 

 Pica pica hudsonia, 24 

 Pigeon, Passenger, 29; illustration, 

 Museum group, 65 



Prairie. See Plover, Golden 



Pintail, 13 

 Pipit, 21 



American. See Pipit 



Sprague's, 7, 21 

 Piranga rubra rubra, 25 

 Plains Flora and Fauna, 6 

 Plegadis autumnalis, 34 



guarauna, 22 

 Plover, Black-bellied, 15; decrease of, 31 



Field. See Plover, Upland 



Golden, 15; decrease of, 31 



Killdeer. See Killdeer. 



Piping, 23 



Semipalmated, 15 



Upland, 14; decrease of, 31 

 Plover, laws relating to, 36, 38 

 Pochard. See Redhead 

 Polioptila caerulea caerulea, 26 

 Potato-bug Bird. See Grosbeak, Rose- 

 breasted 



Prairie Region, 6 

 Pseudo-Carolinian Fauna, 6, 7 

 Pseudo-Campestrian Fauna, 6 

 Ptarmigan, Willow, 23 



Qua-bird. See Heron, Black-crowned 



Night 

 Quail. See Bob-white 



law relating to, 36 

 Querquedula cyanoptera, 22 



Rail, Black, 34 



Carolina. See Sora 



King, 14 



Virginia, 14 



Yellow, 14 



Rails, laws relating to, 36, 38 

 Rain-crow. See Cuckoos 

 Rallidae, laws relating to, 36, 38 

 Rare or accidental birds, list of, 22, 



number of, 8, 9 



Raven, Northern, 7, 17; decrease of, 32 

 Red-bird. See Cardinal. 

 Redhead, 13; decrease of, 31 

 Redpoll, 18 



Common. See Redpoll 



Greater, 18 



Hoary, 18 



Lesser. See Redpoll 



