INDEX 



317 



Table fowl, Dorking best type of, 47 

 Table scraps, feeding to fowls, 77 

 Tail of bird, its use in flight, 14 

 Temperature for incubation, 21 

 Tennessee, turkeys in, 189 

 Testing eggs to determine fertility, 21, 



96, 142 



Thoroughbred, defined, 30 

 Tippler Pigeon, 247 

 Tom-turkey, 180 

 Toulouse Goose, 161 ; illustrated, 159, 



160 



Train of peacock, 207 

 Tricolor Canary, illustrated, 270 

 Triganica Pigeon, 242 

 Trumpeter Pigeon, 239; illustrated, 



249 



Tula Goose, 162 

 Tumbler Pigeon, 247 ; illustrated, 244, 



258 



Turbit Pigeon, 251 

 Turkey, common, illustrated, 181 

 Turkey hen with brood, illustrated, 



198 



Turkey nest, illustrated, 196 

 Turkey roost, illustrated, 194 

 Turnips for poultry, 90 



Uses of birds in domestication, 4 

 Utility types of poultry, 303 



Varieties, 27 

 Variety, denned, 28 

 Ventilation, 261 

 Versicolor Pheasant, 215 

 Virginia, turkeys in, 189 

 Voices of birds, 3, 33, 126, 159, 180, 

 200, 207, 223, 232, 238, 269 



Waste food consumed by street 

 pigeons, 256 



Water, 81, 98, 141 ; imperviousness of 

 feathers to, 15; warming, for fowls, 

 81; propensity of young ducks for, 

 145 ; constant supply of, for pigeons, 

 illustrated, 261 



Wattles, of fowl, 33; of turkey, 179; 

 of guinea, 200; of pheasant, 211 



Web of feather, 9 



Webster, Daniel, exhibitor at first 

 poultry show in America, 53 



West Indies, guinea in, 202 



Wheat, 78, 98, 141 



Whistling Swan, 222 



W T hite eggs, preference for, 289 



White of egg, formation of, 17 



Wild birds, place of, in civilization, 5 



Wild geese, growing, in captivity, 178 



Wings, movement of, in flight, 12 



Women as poultry keepers, 39, 42, i 22 



Wood Duck, 134 



Wyandotte, 59 ; Silver- Laced, illus- 

 trated, 59; White, 60; illustrated, 

 60, 82 ; Partridge, illustrated, 61 ; 

 Silver-Penciled, illustrated, 61 ; 

 Buff, origin of, 62 ; Columbian, il- 

 lustrated, 62 



Yard of small poultry fancier, illus- 

 trated, 120 



Yards, for fowls, 73; for ducks, 138; 

 for geese, 169; for turkeys, 190; 

 for pheasants, 219 



Yellow-legged fowls, American prefer- 

 ence for, 55 



Yolk of egg, 17 



Yorkshire Canary, illustrated, 270 



