INDEX 



313 



Lobbs Islands, The home of 



guano birds, 198 

 Mortgaged to private corpo- 

 rations, 208 



Locusts, Plagues of, 31 



Lost Battalion located by pige- 

 ons, 106 



Lure, The falconer's, 122 



Magpie, As a talker, 142 

 Mammal, Number of species 



of, 5 



Man, Superior to beast, 158 

 Market hunters, Development 

 of the profession in the 

 U. S., 225 

 Income of, 229 

 Marketing the game 

 In England, 218 

 Value received, 218 

 Sale prohibited, 230 

 Martha's Vineyard, 248, 293 

 Maryland experimental farm, 



33, 34, 42, 43 



Mattress, Chicken feathers em- 

 ployed in making, 192 

 Merlin, Food of the, 127 

 Messages carried by pigeons, 



102 



Milliner trade, The develop- 

 ment of the, 163, 171 

 Numbers of birds killed to 



supply the, 164 

 Its struggle against suppres- 

 sion, 171-2 



Millinery Association, 174 

 Minas, As talkers, 142 

 Mistletoe planted by birds,, 16 

 Monaco, Pigeon shooting at, 



95 



Monkeys eaten by hawk- 

 eagles, 18 



Moose Hill Bird Sanctuary, 293 

 Mosquitos destroyed by ducks, 



54 



Moulting of ducks, 187 

 Murphy, R. C., Reports great 

 cormorant rookeries, 7 



Murre, Depletion of rookeries 



by egg hunters, 221 

 Myles" Standish Forest, 293 



Napoleon, established game- 

 laws, 214 



Nests, Edible bird, Description 

 and value, 223-4 



New York Zoological Society, 

 Educational campaign for 

 the passage of a Federal 

 Migratory Bird Law insti- 

 tuted by, 279 



Night, Pigeons, trained to fly 

 to red light at, 108 



Night-hawk, 53, 54 



Nitrogen, Its content in guano, 

 197 



Norway, Protection of birds in, 

 217 



Nutmegs spread by fruit 

 pigeons, 16 



Ostrich 



Character of plumes, 156 

 Hunted down, 168, 176-7 

 Eggs used as food, 176 

 Bred to captivity, 177; pro- 

 duction, 178; breeding 

 habits, 178; artificial in- 

 cubation, 179; plucking, 

 179, 181 



Number of plumes per bird, 

 179 



Manufacture of plumes, 

 182-3 



Ostrich farming in the U. S., 



181 

 Number of birds used, 181, 



184; their value, 181 

 Development of the trade, 



183; its failure; 184 

 Osprey, Trained to fish, 131 

 Owl 



Great horned, 9, 39 

 Screech, 39 

 Barn, 39 

 Long-eared, 39 



