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Pennant, Mr. his remarks on carrion crows - 100 



..... on rooks - - 109 



; . . - . .on the wheat-ear - 242 



Percival, Dr. anecdote by, relative to a colony of rooks - 108 



Pheasaul, the, beauiiiul plumage of ... 235 



... change of plumage in the female - - 327 



. . . description of - . ; , - 324 



. . . disadvantages of the wings of - 329 



% ' . how taken - - 33O 



. its food, eggs, nest, &c. - - 328 



. . . its love of liberty - : - - 326 



. varieties of - - 331 



, . . with difficulty tamed - "?. . - 33O 



Pigeon, the, description of - - 336 



, . . anecdote of the effect of music on /. - - 339 



. . . difference of the crop during incubation - 338 



. the carrier, letters conveyed by - 340 



. . the passenger, description, and manners of - 344 



..... how taken by the colonists - > 347 



. . ."- . . singular facts relative to - 346 



See Ring-dove and Turtle-dov . 



Pliny's anecdote of a raven - - - 95 



Plott, Dr. on the nuthatch - - SOO 



Pozzo's account of a tame toucan - - 138 



Pratz, M. du, a humming bird caught by the friend of - 264 



"'*-, . his remarks on passenger pigeons - 347 



Ptarmigan, the, description of . - 352 



. . ' . curious alarm created by - - S54 



'i 1 " ." how taken - - 356 



. . . variation of its plumage ... 355 



untamcable, though gentle - - 355 



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Quail, the, description of - 343 



. . extrern 2 indolence of .... 349 



, . time 0.' its migration - * - ib. 



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