INDEX. 



American Bittern, 174 



Little Stint, 366 

 Ardeaalba, 149 



cinerea, 130 



comata, 151 



garzetta, 150 



purpurea, 145 



,, russata, 151 

 Avocet, 237 



B 



Baillon's Crake, 401 

 Bar-tailed Godwit, 253 

 Battue Coot shooting, 431 

 Bidcock Water Rail, 404 

 Birds abundance of some species in 

 hard weather, 69, 171, 285, 

 356, 372, 435 



attracted by gas lamps when 

 migrating by night, 70, 195, 

 277, 409 



deformed beaks or feet in. 424 

 killed against lighthouses, 195, 



276, 377, 409 



killed against telegraph wires, 

 68, 277, 334, 377, 392, 395, 

 438 

 migratory, returning to same 



spot, 283, 291 

 netting of in the fens and on the 



coast, 111, 124,376 

 parasites of, 348 

 trustworthy as weather guides, 



66 



varieties of see VARIETIES 

 various notes of in each species, 



93, 197, 341 



various species migrating in 

 company, 71, 73, 74, 75, 90, 

 195 



Birds wholesale destruction of, and 

 their eggs, deprecated, 79, 89, 

 104, 106, 170, 207, 263, 

 281,308,312 

 Bittern American, 174 

 common, 159 

 hawking of, 173 



little, 154 

 Bittour or Bittern, 173 

 Blackbirds migrating with woodcocks, 



275 



Black Curlew or Ibis, 191 

 Black-tailed Godwit, 248 

 Black- winged Stilt, 244 

 Black Stork, 182 

 Botaurus lentiginosus, 174 

 minutus, 154 

 stellaris, 159 

 Bottleybump or Bittern, 166 

 Broads, sunset on the, 163 

 Broad-billed Sandpiper, 359 

 Brown Snipe, 348 

 Browne Sir Thomas, collection of eggs, 



&c., 128 



Buff-backed Heron, 151 

 Buff-breasted Sandpiper, 358 

 Bustard great, 1 



gular, pouch of, 3 



coursing of with greyhounds, 



22 

 list of local specimens and eggs 



in collections, 32 

 migratory habits of, 29 

 Bustard little, 42 



Calidris arenaria, 116 

 Cambridge Godwit, 204 

 Carolina Crake in England, 392 

 Cayenne Night Heron, supposed spe- 

 cimen of, 175 



