INDEX 



Auk, Little, 285, 288 

 Avocet, 75 ; on Romney Marsh, 76 ; 

 description of plumage, 93 



Bittern, Common, 123; nest of, 123; 



local names, 124; haunts of, 126; 



on Essex side of the marshes, 128 ; 



description of plumage, 130 

 Bittern, Little, 129 

 Bustard, Great, I ; some of its old 



haunts, 2, 3, 5 ; running down of, 



3 ; food of, 5 ; description of 



plumage, 6 

 Bustard, Little, 5, 7 



Coot, 154 ; good to eat, 155 ; descrip- 

 tion of, 159 



Cormorant, Common, 303 ; trained to 

 catch fish for owners, 306, 308 



Cormorant, Green, 309 



Crake, Bailloii's, 141, 157 



Crake, Corn, 143 ; local name?, 143 ; 

 birds bagged in Sussex, 145 ; de- 

 scription of, 1 58 



Crake, Little, 142, 158 



Crake, Spotted, 141, 157 



Curlerv, 62 69 ; description of, 70 



Curlew, Stone, or Thick-knee, 9 15 



Diver, Black-throated, 291, 297 

 Diver, Great Northern, 290, 296 

 Diver, Red-throated, 293, 298 

 Dotterel, Common, 20, 22, 23 

 Duck, Common Wild, or Mallard, 183; 

 half-bred, 184 ; flight-shooting, 

 186188; duck decoys, 189196; 

 habits of, 189, 190; an old coy- 

 man of the North Kent marshes, 

 196 199; feeding of, 202 204; 

 a ballad from "Fen and Mere," 

 205, 206; plumage of, 206, 207 



Duck, Eider, 244 ; female Eider shot 



on a Surrey moor, 246 ; plumage, 



etc., 251 

 Duck, Pintail, 220 225 ; description 



of, 227 



Duck, Scaup, 274 280, 282 

 Dunlin, 46 ; shore-shooting, 49 54 ; 



plumage, etc., 59 



, 230, 247 

 Gannet, 307, 308, 310 

 Garganey, see Teal 

 Godwit, Bar-tailed, 72, 91 

 Godwit, Black-tailed, 73, 91 

 Golden-eye, 232, 247 

 Goosander, 252 254; plumage, etc., 



258 

 Goose, Bean, "Wild goose" of shore- 



shooters, 165, 173 

 Goose, Bernade, 166 ; "Hell-hounds," 



167, 174 

 Goose, Brent, 167 ; old shore-shooters 



in quest of, 169 172; plumage, 



etc., 174 



Goose, Greylag, 164, 165, 173 

 Goose, Pink- footed, 166, 173 

 Goose, White-fronted, 166, 174 

 Grebe, Eared, 302 

 Grebe, Great Crested, 294, 295; de- 



scription of, 300 

 Grebe, Horned, 301 

 Grebe, Red-necked, 301 

 Greenshank, 77 ; nesting habits of, 



78 ; plumage of, 94 

 Guillemot, 284, 287, 288 

 Gull, Brown-hooded^ 323 

 Gull, Common, 317, 322 

 G^lll, Great Black-backed, 311 314 

 Gull, Herring, 316, 321 

 Gull, Iceland, 318, 321 

 Gull, Lesser Black-backed, 314, 315 



