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INDEX 



INDEX 



Acknowledgments, 463 

 Age and Sex Determination, 31. 

 Ages of birds. See Longevity Records. 

 Aix sponsa, 221. 

 Altitude of Flight, 42. 

 American Brant, 102. 

 Coot, 63. 

 Eider, 302. 

 Golden-eye, 259. 

 Merganser, 348. 

 Pintail, 189. 

 Scoter, 338. 



Swan. See Whistling Swan. 

 Anas acuta tzitzihoa, 189. 



crecca carolinensis, 198. 

 crecca crecca, 195. 

 cyanoptera cyanoptera, 210. 

 diazi novimexicana, 157. 

 discors, 204. 



fulvigula fulvigula, 170. 

 fulvigula maculosa, 173. 

 platyrhynchos platyrhynchos, 149. 

 rubripes rubripes, 160. 

 rubripes tristis, 160. 

 Anatidae, 1. 

 Anatinae, 149. 



Anser albifrons albifrons, 117. 

 albifrons gambelli, 123. 

 Anserinae, 81. 

 Arctonetta fischeri, 321. 



Baldpate, 183. 

 Banding waterfowl, 53. 

 Barnacle Goose, 110. 

 Barrow's Golden-eye, 269. 

 Bay, Sea or Diving Ducks, 230. 

 Bibliography, 465. 

 Black-bellied Tree Duck, 374. 

 Black Brant, 106. 

 Black Duck, Common, 160. 



Red-legged, 160. 



Blue-bill. See Greater and Lesser Scaup. 

 Blue Goose, 136. 

 Blue-winged Teal, 204. 

 Botulism, 45. 

 Brant, American, 102. 



Black, 106. 

 Branta bernicla hrota, 102. 



bernicla nigricans, 106. 



canadensis canadensis, 82. 



canadensis hutchinsi, 95. 



canadensis leucopareia, 93. 



canadensis minima, 99. 



canadensis occidentalis, 91. 



leucopsis, 110. 

 nigricans, 106. 

 Brewer's Duck, 44. 

 Bucephala albeola, 273 



clangula americana, 259. 

 islandica, 269. 

 Buffle-head, 273. 

 Butter-ball. See Buffle-head. 

 Cackling Goose, 99. 



Camptorhynchus labradorius, 295. 

 Canada Goose, 81. 



Common, 82. 

 Lesser, 93. 

 Western, 91. 

 Canvas-back, 241. 

 Charitonetta albeola, 273. 

 Chaulelasmus streperus, 175. 

 Chen atlantica, 132. 



caerulescens, 136. 

 hyperborea, 127. 

 hyperborea atlantica, 132. 

 hyperborea hyperborea, 127. 

 rossi (rossii), 144. 

 Cinnamon Teal, 210. 

 Clangula hyemalis, 279. 

 Common Black Duck, 160. 

 Canada Goose, 82. 

 Mallard, 140. 



Conservation of Wildfowl, 55. 

 Coot. See American Coot. 

 Cygninac, 66. 

 Cygnus buccinator, 77. 



columbianus, 69. 

 olor, 66. 



Dafila acuta tzitzihoa, 189. 

 Dendrocygna autumnalis autumnalis, 374, 



bicolor helva, 376. 

 Dendrocygninae, 374. 

 Diving Ducks, 230. 

 Duck Sickness. See Botulism. 

 Topography, 9. 



Eastern Harlequin Duck, 287. 

 Eclipse Plumage and Moults, 22. 

 Economic Status, 55. 

 Eider, American, 302. 



King, 315. 



Northern, 300. 



Pacific, 312. 



Spectacled, 321. 



Steller's, 296. 

 Emperor Goose, 113. 



