588 



Index 



Hamatopus frazeri, Frazer's oyster- 

 catcher, 493. 



Hamatopus ostralegus, European 

 oyster-catcher, 490. 



Hcematopus palliatus, American 

 oyster-catcher, 491. 



Hooded merganser \lophodytes cucul- 



latus} 197. 



Contest with wood duck for nest, 

 198. 



Hospital Point, battery-shooting, 



35- 

 Hudsonian curlew \numenius hud- 



sonicus\ 440. 

 Hudsonian godwit \limosa hamas- 



ticd] 400. 

 Hunting, see Duck-shooting, Goose- 



-shooting, etc. 

 Hutchins' goose \branta cana- 



densis hutchinsii~\ 239. 

 Hybrids 



Canada goose, 5, 239. 

 Characteristics, 5, 203. 

 Interbreeding among wild fowl, 



201-203. 

 Mallard, 75, 201-202. 



Ice-hole duck-shooting, 60. 

 Iceland 



Knot eggs taken in 1890, 362. 

 Protection to breeding eiders, 4. 

 Interbreeding among wild fowl, 



201-203. 



[See also Hybrids.] 

 lonornis martinica, purple gallinule, 



294. 



Irrigated land, fondness of water- 

 fowl for, 511. 



Jacana spinosa, Mexican jacana, 497. 

 Jacanas \_jacanidte~] 



Asia, species found in, 497. 



Characteristics of family, 496. 



Diagnosis of family, 579. 



Mexican, 497. 



Jamaica, abundance of clapper 



rail, 281. 

 James River 



Broadbill flocks, 140. 

 Canvas-back resort, 130. 

 Duck-shooting, 28. 

 Sora rail hunting, 288. 

 Jim Bosworth, goose-shooting in 

 the stubbles, 209. 



Killdeer plover \agiatitus vocifera] 



464. 

 King eider \jsomateria spectabilis~\ 



172. 



King rail \rallus elegans~\ 274. 

 Knot, tringa canutus, 357. 

 Krieker, name for pectoral sand- 



piper, 313, 371. 



Labrador duck \_camptolaimus lab- 



radorius~\ 160. 

 New York museum collection, 



162. 



Rareness of, 161. 

 Webster, D., birds killed by, 



161. 

 Lake Erie, canvas-back shooting, 



52. 



Lapwing \vanellus vanellus\ 452. 

 Least sandpiper \tringa minu- 



tilla] 377- 

 Lesser scaup duck \ayihya affinis~\ 



37 



Lesser snow goose \chen hyper- 

 borea} 219. 



Lesser yellowlegs \totanus fla- 

 vipei\ 412. 



Limicola, see Shore-birds. 



Limosa fedoa, marbled godwit, 395. 



Limosa hczmastica, Hudsonian god- 

 wit, 400. 



Limosa lapponica baueri, Pacific 

 godwit, 397. 



Limosa timosa, black-tailed godwit, 

 403- 



