INDEX 



309 



Producer of guano, 199 

 Rookeries on the Chinchas, 



200 

 Trained to catch fish, 



131 



Crawfish, Destruction by her- 

 ons, 55, 56 

 Croix de Guerre, Awarded to a 



pigeon, 107 

 Crow, 42, 45, 53, 58 

 Trained to talk, 142 

 Dead crows as lures for 



hawks,, 151 

 As food, 218 



Curling irons used to shape 

 ostrich plumes, 183 



Darwin, Charles 

 On duck breeds, 82 

 On the origin of domestic 



pigeons, 87, 88 

 Decoys, Artificial types, 146 

 Crows used to entice hawks, 



151 



Live decoys, 147 

 Employed against ducks and 



shorebirds, 145 

 Stuffed owl used, 152 

 Digestion of seeds, 13, 14 

 Disease, Among birds, 20, 21; 



among game-birds, 225 

 Birds as carriers of, 21 

 Dixon, Dr. Samuel G., Eradi- 

 cation of mosquito larvae 

 by, 54 



Dodo, Destruction of, 234 

 Down, Commercial, 186 

 Where obtained, 186 

 Eider-down, 188 

 Manufacture, 192 

 Duck, Domestic, 82 



Possibility of wide varia- 

 tion in, 82 

 Breeds, 82 

 Muscovy duck, 84 

 Production of down,, 192 

 Ducks 

 Wood, 55; Mallard, 54; 



Green-winged teal, 54, 

 Muscovy, 84. 

 Speed of flight, 99 

 Shot for the market, 227. 

 Slaughter of, 240 

 Duck-shooting, 145-148, 242 

 Dutcher, William, Founder of 



the Audubon Societies, 171 

 Dyeing, of ostrich plumes, 183 



Eagle, Used in falconry, 117, 



130 



The quarry of, 127 

 Feathers used in the mil- 

 linery trade, 162 

 Educational work in orni- 

 thology 



In schools, colleges, by game 

 commissions and Audubon 

 Societies, 290 

 Eggs of birds used for food, 



213 



By the Eskimo, 213 

 By the Icelanders, 190, 219 

 Gull eggs used, 218 

 Depletion of rookeries, 220 

 Vessels outfitted for egg 



raids, 220 



Marketing of bird eggs, 221 

 Egret breeding in captivity, 



185 

 Egret farms, The non-existence 



of, 185 



Eider-down, Method of obtain- 

 ing, 190, 191 

 Eider duck 



Distribution,, 189 

 Eggs as human food, 189 

 Rearing in Iceland, 189 

 Semi -domestication in Ice- 

 land, 190, 191 



Slaughter for down along 

 the Labrador coast, 187 

 England 



Pigeons used during war, 



104 



Scope of millinery trade in, 

 165; its suppression, 175 



