444 



INDEX. 



Migration, queries respecting, 82, 237 

 Mocking-Bird, 58 



Muscular power of the wing of a 

 bird, 70, 437 



Music attracts Nightingales, 239 

 Narrow-beaked, Pressirostral, 305 

 Nest, Blackbird's, by a Rabbit's seat, 

 170 



Eagle's, 104 



other birds build in Eagle's, 



109 



curious, of a Thrush, 167 



rapidity of building, 219 



curious one of African Finches, 



219 



of Sparrows and Redbreast, 



224, 235 



of Titmouse, singular place for 



one, 232 



of a Redstart, 234 



Swallow's, in a lamp, 250 



in a bell, 250 



not always of mud, 253 



eatable, 253 



Pigeons, 281 



Ostrich, 300 



Water-Hen, 305, 308 



Solan Goose, 393 



Albatross, 412, 431 



same frequented by same birds, 



season after season, 250 



Night, birds sing during, 240 

 Nightingales, migration of, 230 



tame, 84 



removal of eggs by, 341 



Nuthatch, Sitta Europaea, 263 



Oil on feathers, use of, 66 



Oriole, Golden, 211 



Ostrich, substances found in the 



stomach- of one, 45 

 . affectionate disposition of the, 



300 



modes of catching, 301 



Oxen destroyed by Eagles, 106 

 Owls, particulars respecting, 145 



remove their young, 341 



Oyster-Catchers, 314 



Palamadea cornuta, or Horned 

 Screamer, 313 



Palmipedes, web-footed, 349, 383 

 Park, Mungo, anecdote of, 1 

 Parrots, 275 



beak described, 27 



Parroquets, 275 



Partridge and Turkey associate, 291 



tame, 293 



in North America, 294 



' how taken in the East, 



296 



Paradise, Bird of, 177 

 Passerine order, 211 

 Peacocks formerly prized as dainties, 



289 

 Pelican's beak, 33 



traditions of, 383 



and Cormorant, fishing in 



partnership, < 

 Penguin, 429 



stones swallowed by, 50 



selection for breeding- 



place, 431 

 Petrel, 82, 416 



used as a candle, 416 



Stormy, sailors' superstition 



of, 417 



-Sooty, 42 6 



- found inland, 426 



Pheasant attacks a lady, 284 

 directions for rearing them, 



Pigeons living peaceably with a 

 Hawk, 141 



Carrier, 75, 279 



Passenger, 276 



mode of catching in the 



Pyrenees, 280 



Wood, 281 



's nest by a litter of kittens, 



282 



Platypus, Duck-billed, 30 

 Ptiloris Paradiscus, plumage of, 64 

 Plover, Stilted, 40 



Egyptian, anecdote of the, 



337 



Plumage of Birds considered, 64, 66 



, change of colour, 68 



Pouch of the Bustard, 299 



Emu, 302 



Hurgila, use of, 325 



Poultry tribe, 276 

 j Pressirostral, or Narrow-beaked, 305 



