314 



OUR DOMESTIC BIRDS 



Gray Lag Goose, 160 



Green ducks, 144 



Grit, use of, for poultry, 16 



Guinea, color pattern in feathers of, 



10 ; White, illustrated, 202, 204 

 Gunpowder, use of pigeon manure in 



manufacture of, 253 



Hair, relation of, to feathers, 8 



Hamburg, Silver-Spangled, illustrated, 

 46 



Hamburg chicks, early growth of 

 feathers of, 1 1 



Handling ducks, 125 



Handling pigeons, 262 



Harz Mountain Canaries, 271 



Hatching season, natural, 93 



Hawk-colored fowls, 43 



Hawks and guineas, 204 



Hempseed for canaries, 274 



Hen Pigeons, illustrated, 251 



Hen-tailed Bantams, 70 



Heron, flight of, 12 



Holland Turkey, White, 182; illus- 

 trated, 184, 185 



Homer Pigeons, 243; Flying, illus- 

 trated, 241, 242, 246 ; squab-breed- 

 ing, illustrated, 247 ; squabs of, 

 illustrated, 266 



Houdan male, illustrated, 48 



House, for fowls, 73, 85, 101, 108; il- 

 lustrated, 74, 76, 77, 85-89, 118; 

 with open front protected by hood, 

 illustrated, 89; forgrowing chickens, 

 illustrated, 99, 116; old stone, on 

 Rhode Island farm, illustrated, 100 ; 

 moving a colony to, 104 ; interior of 

 a compartment in, illustrated, no; 

 for ducks, 138; illustrated, 150, 151 ; 

 for geese, 169; for turkeys, 190; 

 illustrated, 191 ; for pheasants, 219 



House and fly for pigeons, illustrated, 

 255, 259, 262-265 



Houses at agricultural colleges and 

 experiment stations, illustrated, 79, 

 88, 90, 91, 109 



Hungarian Pheasant, 214 



Hybrid, defined, 25 



Ice supply on large duck farms, 154 

 Incubation, appearance of eggs at 

 various stages of, illustrated, 20, 

 21 ; period of, 96, 142, 171, 196, 



2O5, 210, 220, 228, 236, 267, 275 



Incubator cellar, illustrated, 115 



Incubators, 306; introduction of, on 

 Long Island duck farms, 148; 

 mammoth, 152 



India, antiquity of fowl in, 36; pea- 

 fowl in, 209 



Indian Runner Duck, 132, 141 ; illus- 

 trated, 132, 133 



Insects, birds as destroyers of, 5 

 Instinct, relation of, to incubation, 19 ; 



homing, in pigeons, 243 

 Intelligence of birds, 3 

 Intensive poultry farms, no 

 Invention, relation of, to aviculture, 306 

 Italian races of fowls, 46 



Jacobin Pigeon, illustrated, 243 

 Japan, antiquity of fowl in, 36 

 Japanese Bantams, 68 ; illustrated, 68 

 Japanese Long-Tailed Fowl, illus- 

 trated, 52 



Japanese races of fowls, 51 

 Java, Black, 58 

 Java, peafowl in, 209 

 Jersey Blue, 56 

 Johnnycake for chicks, 98 

 Journalism, 305 

 Judging, 293, 304 



Kafirs, their method of pulling .stumps 



of ostrich plumes, 238 

 Kentucky, turkeys in, 189 

 Killing poultry, 284 



Land plaster, use of, in poultry houses, 



75 



Langshan, Black, illustrated, 40, 41 

 Language, capacity of birds for, 2 

 Laugher Pigeon, 239 

 Lavender Guinea, 203 

 Lawn clippings for poultry, 76 

 Laying capacity of birds, 18, 127 

 Laying habits of birds, 141, 170, 195, 266 

 Leaves for litter in poultry houses, 76 

 Leg of bird, contraction of, in perching, 



M 



Leghorn, 46; illustrated, 10, 11, 4=;, 

 8 1 ; early growth of feathers of, 1 1 



Legislation relating to aviculture, 309 



Lettuce for canaries, 273 



Lice, how fowls rid themselves of, 77 ; 

 to destroy, on sitting hens, 96 



Lime in eggshells, 16 



Lincolnshire Buff, 63 



Litter in poultry houses, 76, 138 



Lizard Canary, 271 



