Index 



597 



Water-fowl \_anatida\ 



Albinos, 204. 



Avocets, see that title. 



Characteristics, I. 



Colorado River, mouth of, con- 

 gregation of birds, 558- 

 564. 



Decrease, 63. 



Market gunning, 68. 

 Protection of wild fowl, need 



of, 4-5, 66-70. 

 Restrictions as to quantity of 



game killed, 68. 

 Spring shooting, abolition 

 necessary, 65-70. 



Diagnoses of families and genera, 

 565. 



Ducks and Duck-shooting, see 

 those titles. 



Eider, see that title. 



Geese, see that title. 



Goose-shooting, see that title. 



Hybrids, see that title. 



Interbreeding, 201-203. 



Irrigated land, fondness of water- 

 fowl for, 511. 



Jacanas, see that title. 



Mergansers, see that title. 



Mexican warfare, 4. 



Migration, 3. 



Oyster-catchers, see that title. 



Pacific coast, water-fowl of, see 

 that title. 



Phalaropes, see that title. 



Plovers, see that title. 



Rail-shooting and Rails, see those 

 titles. 



Relation of wild fowl to domestic 

 fowl, 5. 



River-ducks, see that title. 



Sandpipers, see that title. 



Scoters, see that title. 



Sea-ducks, see that title. 



Shooting, see Duck-shooting, 

 Goose -shoot ing, etc. 



Water-fowl [continued ] 



Shore-birdstfw^ Shore-bird shoot- 

 ing, see those titles. 

 Snipe, see that title. 

 Stilts, see that title. 

 Surf bird, see that title. 

 Swans, see that title. 

 Teal, see that title. 

 Turnstone, see that title. 

 Uses as food and clothing, 4. 

 Woodcocks, see that title. 

 Yellowlegs, see that title. 

 \_See also names of species ^\ 

 Wayne's clapper rail, 278. 

 Webster, D., Labrador duck killed 



by, 161. 

 Western sandpiper \ereunetes occi- 



dentalis~\ 391. 



Western solitary sandpiper \helo- 

 dromas solitarius cinna- 

 momeus~\ 419. 

 Western willet \symphemia semipal- 



mata inornata~\ 424. 

 Whimbrel \numenius phceopus~\ 448. 

 Whistling swan \jolor Columbia 



nus~\ 



Characteristics, 261-264. 

 Migration incident, 259. 

 White-cheeked goose \branta cana- 



densis occidentalis~\ 241. 

 White-fronted goose 

 American, 228. 

 European, 228. 

 Pacific coast, 539, 544. 

 White-rumped sandpiper \_tringa 



fuscicollis'} 373. 

 White-winged scoter [oidemia de- 



glandi~\ 



Description, etc., 178-182. 

 Line shooting, 180. | 

 Whooping swan \_olor cygnus~\ 267. 

 Widgeon, European, {mareca penel- 



ope-} 8 9 . 



Widgeon, Pacific coast, 526, 530. 

 Wild fowl, see Water-fowl. 



