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Index 



Swans \_cygnince~} 



Age, long life of swans, 260. 



Black swan found in Australia, 

 260. 



Characteristics, 258-260. 



Currituck Bay decoy, 206, 208. 



Diagnosis of family, 571. 



Distinction from other birds of 

 family, 258. 



Mute swan, 259, 260. 



Pacific coast, 551. 



South American swan, 260. 



Trumpeter swan, 265. 



Whistling swan, see that title. 



Whooping swan, 267. 

 Symphemia semipalmata, willet, 421. 

 Symphemia semipalmata inornata, 

 western willet, 424. 



Tampico, black-bellied tree-duck, 

 1901, 254. 



Tattler, wandering, 425. 



Teal 



Blue-winged, 99. 

 Cinnamon teal, see that title. 

 Green-winged teal, see that title. 



Totanus flavipes, lesser yellowlegs, 

 412. 



Totanus melanoleucus, greater yel- 

 lowlegs, 407. 



Totanus melanoleucus frazari, gray 

 yellowlegs, 410. 



Totanus nebularius, European 

 greenshank, 405. 



Totanus to/anus, common redshank, 



415- 

 Tree-duck 



Black-bellied, 253. 

 Fulvous tree-duck, 255, 514. 

 Relation to anserine, 217. 

 Tringa acuminata, sharp-tailed 



sandpiper, 368. 

 Tringa alpina, dunlin, 381. 

 Tringa alpina pacifica, red-backed 

 sandpiper, 382. 



Tringa bairdii, Baird's sandpiper, 



376. 



Tringa canutus^ knot, 357. 

 Tringa cooperi, Cooper's sandpiper, 



370. 



Tringa datnacensis, long-toed stint, 

 38o. 



Tringa ferruginea, curlew sand- 

 piper, 385. 



Tringa fuscicollis, white-rumped 

 sandpiper, 373. 



Tringa tnaculata, see Pectoral sand- 

 piper. 



Tringa maritima, purple sandpiper, 

 362. 



Tringa minutilla, least sandpiper, 



377- 



Tringa ptilocnemis t Pribilof sand- 

 piper, 367. 



Tringa ptilocnemis couesi, Aleutian 

 sandpiper, 365. 



Trumpeter swan \_olor buccinator] 

 265. 



Tryngites subruficollis, buff-breasted 

 sandpiper, 430. 



Turnstone \jzrenaria interpres~\ 



482. 

 Diagnosis of family, 578. 



Turnstone, black, 487. 



Vanellus vanellus, lapwing, 452. 

 Velvet scoter \_oidemia fusca] 



176. 



Diet, Heligoland instance, 177. 

 Netting, 178. 



Virginia rail \_rallus virginianus~\ 

 281. 



Waders, Pacific coast, 557. 

 Wading the marshes, shore-bird 



shooting, 312. 

 Wandering tattler \heteractitis in- 



canus~\ 425. 

 Wat Green, duck-shooting on James 



River, 28. 



