Index 



595 



Shore-birds {continued} 

 Pacific coast, 557. 

 Phalaropes, see that title. 

 Plovers, see that title. 

 Ringed plovers, see that title. 

 Sandpipers, see that title. 

 Shooting, see Shore-bird shoot- 

 ing. 



Snipe, see that title. 

 Species found in North America, 



319. 



Stilts, see that title. 



Surf bird, see that title. 



Turnstone, see that title. 



Wilson's snipe, see that title. 



Woodcocks, see that title. 



Yellowlegs, see that title. 

 Shoveller \_spatula clypeata~\ 105. 

 Siberian coast, Steller's duck resort, 



164. 



Skag, boat for duck-shooting, 52. 

 Smew \_ntergus albellus\ 199. 

 Snipe 



Diagnosis of family, 573. 



Dowitcher, 349. 



European, 341. 



Great, 346. 



Red-bellied, 352. 



Red-breasted, 348. 



Wilson's snipe, see that title. 

 Snow goose 



Greater, 223. 



Lesser, 219. 



Pacific coast, 541, 543. 



Ross's, 227. 



Snowy plover \jczgialitis nivosa~\ 473. 

 Solitary sandpiper \_helodromas soli- 



tarius~\ 416. 



Solitary sandpiper, western, 419. 

 Somateria dresseri, American eider, 



1 68. 



Somateria mollissima borealis, north- 

 ern eider, 166. 



Somateria spectabilis, king eider, 

 172. 



Somateria v-nigra, Pacific eider, 

 170. 



Sora, Carolina rail, 285. 



South America 



Steamer-duck, species of sea- 

 duck, 120. 



Swan, peculiar method of catch- 

 ing, 260. 



Spatula clypeata, shoveller, 105-109. 



Spectacled eider [arctonetta fischeri~\ 

 165. 



Spoon-bill \_eurynorhynchus pyg- 



mceus~] 387. 

 Pacific coast, 517. 



Spotted crake [porzana porzana~\ 

 284. 



Spotted sandpiper \_actitis macu- 

 laria~\ 432. 



Sprigtail, name for pintail duck, 521. 



Spring shooting, abolition necessary, 

 65-70. 



Squatarola squatarola, black-bellied 

 plover, 456. 



Steamer-duck 



American merganser, 193. 

 Sea-duck species, 120. 



Steganopiis tricolor, Wilson's phala- 

 rope, 327. 



Stejneger, Dr., manner of catching 

 rail in Mauritius, 1675, 



273. 



Steller's duck [eniconetta stelleri\ 



162. 

 Stilt sandpiper \_microp<zlama himan- 



topus} 355. 



Stilts \_recurvir ostrid<z~\ 

 Black-necked, 333. 

 Characteristics of family, 330. 

 Diagnosis of family, 573. 

 Stint, long-toed, 380. 

 Stubble fields, goose-shooting, 209. 

 Surf bird \_aphriza virgata~\ 481. 



Diagnosis of family, 578. 

 Surf scoter \oidemia perspicillata] 

 182. 



