444 



INDEX. 



Pigeons breeding in church towers in 



a half- wild state, 358 

 Pine Grosbeak, 234 

 Pipit meadow, 167 

 richard's, 168 

 rock, 169 

 tree, 166 

 Plectrophanes lapponica, 181 



nivalis, 182 



Pyrrhula enucleator, 234 

 vulgaris, 233 



Q 



Quail common, 429 

 californica, 437 



R 



Raptores migratory ; probable cause of 



the young predominating, 1, 2 



ditto, predominance of adult 



females over males, 9, 21, 



24 



Raven, 256 

 Reed Pheasant, 1 53 

 warbler, 115 

 Red-backed Shrike, 62 

 Redbreast, 90 

 Red-footed Falcon, 19 

 Red-legged Partridge, 404 

 Redpole lesser, 230 



summer plumage of, not re- 

 assumed in confinement, 231 

 mealy, 228 

 ditto, nesting in confinement, 



229 



Redstart black, 99 

 common, 98 

 female in male's plumage, 370 

 Redwing, 82 



Red-winged Starling, 244 

 Regulus cristatus, 134 



fire-crested, 138 

 golden-crested, 134 

 iffnicapillus, 138 

 Richard's Pipit, 168 

 Ring-dove, 351 

 ouzel, 84 

 Rock Dove, 358 

 Rock Pipit, 169 

 Roller, 310 

 Rook, 264 



Rose-coloured Pastor, 253 

 Rough-legged Buzzard, 29 

 Royston Crow, 260 



S 



Salicaria locust ella, 104 

 luscinioides, 110 

 phragmitis, 108 

 strepera, 115 

 Sand Grouse, Pallas's, 376 

 Sand Martin, 338 

 Savi's warbler, 110 

 Saxicola ananthe, 102 

 rubetra, 10M. 

 rubicola, 100 

 Scops aldrovandi y 42 



asio, 44 

 Scop's eared Owl, 42 

 Sea Eagle, 1 

 Sedge warbler, 108 

 Short-eared Owl, 50 

 Shore Lark, 171 

 Shrike great grey, 61 

 red-backed, 62 

 woodchat, 64 

 Siskin, 224 



breeding in confinement* 225 

 cross with canary (mule), 223 

 Sitta europcea, 301 



ccesia, 301 

 Skylark, 175 



" flown at" with merlins, 14 

 Snow Bunting, 182 

 Snowy Owl, 57 

 Snow, first fall of in winter, 75 

 Song Thrush, 78 

 Sparrow hedge, 88 

 house, 209 



takes possession of other 

 birds' nests, 249, 330, 

 340 



tree, 206 

 Sparrow Hawk, 24 



pairing with Hobby, 25 

 trained for hawking, 14 

 Spink or Chaffinch, 199 

 Spotted Flycatcher, 65 



Woodpecker great, 288 

 Woodpecker lesser, 293 

 Starling American meadow, 245 

 common, 247 

 red-winged, 244 

 Starna cinerea, 419 



palustris, 419 

 Stonechat, 100 

 Stock Dove, 353, 355 

 Strix flammea, 51 

 Sturnus vulgaris, 247 

 Surlingham Broad, description of, 120, 

 188 



