592 



Index 



Querquedula cyanoptera, see Cinna- 

 mon teal. 



Querquedula discors, blue-winged 

 teal, 99. 



Rail-shooting, 268. 



Essex sport, 268-270. 



Season, 268. 



[See also Rails.] 

 Rails \rallida>\ 



American coot, 298. 



Belding's rail, 275. 



Black rail, 291. 



California clapper rail, 274. 



Caribbean clapper rail, 281. 



Carolina rail, 284. 



Characteristics and habits, 270- 



273. 



Clapper rails, see that title. 

 Corn crake, 293. 

 Diagnosis of family, 571. 

 Dogs used in hunting rail, 280, 



288, 290. 



European coot, 301. 

 Flight, species without power of 



flight, 273. 



Florida gallinule, 296. 

 Gallinules, see that title. 

 Haunts of, 268. 

 King rail, 274. 

 Mauritius, manner of catching 



rail, 1675, 273. 

 Purple gallinule, 294. 

 Shooting, see Rail-shooting. 

 Spotted crake, 284. 

 Subfamilies, 270. 

 Varieties, 270. 

 Virginia rail, 281. 

 Yellow rail, 288. 

 .tallida, see Rails. 



Rallus beldingi, Belding's rail, 275. 

 Rallus crepitans, clapper rail, 270, 



277. 

 Rallus crepitans saturatus, Louisiana 



clapper rail, 278. 



Rallus crepitans scottii, Florida clap- 

 per rail, 278. 

 Rallus crepitans -waynei, Wayne's 



clapper rail, 278. 

 Rallus elegans, king rail, 274. 

 Rallus longirostris caribceus, Carib- 

 bean clapper rail, 281. 

 Rallus obsoletus, California clapper 



rail, 276. 

 Rallus virginianus, Virginia rail, 



281. 

 Recollections of duck-shooting, 



6-7. 

 Recurvirostra americana, American 



avocet, 331. 

 Recurvirostrida, see Avocets and 



Stilts. 

 Red-backed sandpiper \tringa al- 



pina pacifica~\ 382. 

 Red-bellied snipe \jnacrorhamphus 



scolopaceus\ 352. 

 Red-breasted merganser \inerganser 



serrator~\ 194. 



Red-breasted sandpiper, 358. 

 Red-breasted snipe \_macrorhamphus 



griseus~\ 348. 



Red-head \_aythya americana~\ 

 Characteristics, 123-128. 

 Pacific coast, 524. 

 Resorts, 124-127. 

 Shooting methods, 125-127. 

 Red-legged black duck \_anasobscura 



rubripes~] 84. 

 Red phalarope \_crytnophilus fulica- 



rius~] 320. 

 Red River settlement, snow-goose 



anecdote, 222. 

 Redshank, common, 415. 

 Rice fields, wild, duck-shooting in, 



24-27. 

 Ring-necked duck \_aythya collaris~\ 



140. 



Ringed plover 

 European, 469, 

 Little, 470, 



