INDEX. 



445 



Ptarmigan , its mode of escaping birds 



of prey, 149 



Puff-backed Shrike, 166 

 Puffin and Raven, 184 



or Sea-Parrot, 423 



how caught, 423 



Purres, 334 



Quails, 296 



Rails, 313 



Rain, why Swallows fly low during, 



249 



Rapacious birds, 93 

 Rapidity of flight, 73 

 Raven, notices of the, 179 



tame, 185 



tame, in a wild state, 189 



and Jackdaws, 180 



and Puffin, 184 



attachment to a dog, 187, 



357 

 Razor-bill, 423 



chased by a Hawk, 425 



Rearing Pheasants, 286 



Redbreast builds in a dining-room 



curtain, 235 

 in a school-house, 



235 



in a church, 2 "6 



. frequenting some particu- 



lar place, 237 



Red-legged Crow, 204, 403 



Redpoll and Goldfinch, 218 



Redstart's nest in the hinge of a door, 

 234 



Redwing, 167 



Ring-Dotterell, 334 



Rooks, 189 



Rookeries, 201 



occasional desertion of, 201 



contentions in, 203 



Ropes of hide used in St. Kilda, 435 



Sacred Ibis, 346 



Sandpipers on the sea-shore, 334 

 Screamer, Horned, Palamadea, 312 

 Sea-birds, feeding on fish, 386 



found far out at sea, 7 8, 41 8 



found inland, 418 



' trade in, 433 



Swallow, or Tern, 397 



Senses, acuteness of the, in birds of 



prey, 115 



Sitta Europaea, Nuthatch, 263 

 Sheldrake builds in rabbit-holes, 375 

 Shoveller Duck's bill, 30 



of New Holland, 30 



Shrike, or Butcher-bird, 27, 158 

 used for Hawking, 164 

 Skeleton of a bird, 26, 35 

 Skimmer (Rhynchops),396 

 Snake-eater, Vultur serpentarius, 120 

 Snipe's attachment to place, 339 



mode of feeding, 28 

 Snowy Owl, habits of the, 149 

 Solan Goose, 53, 393 

 Song in birds pleasurable, 62 

 South Stack, punctual return of sea- 

 birds to the, 91, 404 



Lighthouse, birds killed 



by flying against, 344 

 Razor-bills and Guille- 

 mots at the, 424 

 Sparrow, boldness of, 224 

 sociability of, 22,5 

 affection for their young, 



227 



- singular death of a, 228 



- nest in a church, 237 



Sparrow-Hawk, mode of catching, 136 

 dwelling with Pi 



geons, 141 

 Spiders, height to which they ascend 



in the air, 249 



Spoon-bill, shot at Holy head, 330 

 's beak, 34 



St. Kilda, bird-catchers of, 431 

 Stanley Crest explained, 99 

 Starlings, habits of, 212 

 Stomach, Heron's, 316 

 Stork, 3 18 



kills its faithless mate, 332 



Strength of the Condor, 118 



birds and bones, 34 



Swallow's bill, 3 1 



singular nest, 89 



occasionally detained, 91 



different species, 241 



if ever found dormant, 



242 



248 



migration of, 247 

 quantity of insects eat by, 



