INDEX. 



344 



Missel Thrush, 74 

 Montagu's Harrier, 39 



melanite varieties of, 41 

 Motacilla boarula, 163 

 flava, 164 

 rayi, 165 

 yarretti, 160 

 Muscicapa atricapilla, 66 



grisola, 65 

 Mules cross-bred birds so called, 



221, 223, 360 



ditto, as applied to hens in 



cocks' plumage, 369 



N 



Nests, singularly constructed, or in 

 strange localities, 56, 65, 81, 82, 

 84, 117, 140, 145, 219, 269, 296, 

 297, 302, 326, 407 



Nightingale, 123 



Nightjar, 348 



Noctua passerina, 59 

 tengmalmi, 60 



Nucifraca caryocatactes, 281 



Nutcracker, 281 



Nuthatch, 301 



Olf blood, 234 



green, 221 

 Orange-legged Hobby, 20 

 Oriole golden, 86 

 Oriolus galbula, 86 

 Ortolan Bunting (not Norfolk), 199 

 Ortyx virginianus, 436 

 Osprey, 5 

 Otus brachyotus, 50 



vulgaris, 44 

 Ouzel ring, 84 

 Owl American mottled, 44 



barn, 51 



eagle, 47 



little, 59 



long-eared, 44 



scop's-eared, 42 



short-eared, 50 



snowy, 57 



tawny, 54 



tengmalm's, 60 

 Owls, catching fish, 53, 56 



useful to farmers, 46, 52, 54 



nesting in confinement, 47, 59 



Pallas's Sand Grouse, 376 



3 L 2 



Pandion haliaetus, 5 

 Parrot crossbill, 239 

 Partridge, Barbary, 405 



common or grey, 420 



large "bags" of, made in 



Norfolk, 423 



red-legged or French, 404 

 shooting, old and new style 



compared, 424 

 Parus ater, 146 

 caudatus, 148 

 ceeruleus, 142 

 major, 139 

 palustris, 147 

 Passer montamts, 206 

 ,. domesticus, 209 

 Pastor rose us, 253 

 Pastor rose-coloured, 253 

 Pel John, the falconer, 14 

 Penrice's, the late Rev. C., collection 



of birds, at Plumstead, 311 

 Perdiz cinerea, 420. 

 petrosa, 405 

 rufa, 404 

 Perdrix de marais, 419 

 Peregrine Falcon, 9 



hawking with, 13 

 Pernis apivorus, 32 

 Phasianus colchicus, 361 

 torquatus, 365 

 versicolor, 365 

 Pheasant Bohemian, var., 367 

 common, 361 

 cross with Black 



Grouse, 375 

 ditto with Barn door 



Fowls, 368 

 ditto with ringnecked 



Chinese, 365 

 ditto with Japanese, 



365 



shooting, the " battue," 370 

 Phoenicura ruticilla, 98 

 suecica, 96 



tithys, 99 



Philomela luscinia, 123 

 Pica caudata, 280 

 Picus major, 288 

 martins, 291 

 ,. minor, 293 

 viridis, 285 

 Pickcheese, 142 

 Pied Flycatcher, 66 



Wagtail, ]60 



Pigeons, wonderful powers of flight of, 

 359 



