INDEX 



359 



Dewar, Mr. D., on Crow hatch- 

 ing hen's egg, 192 ; on pirati- 

 cal Tern, 312 



Dipper, a diving Thrush, 19 



Dove, domesticated, 348 ; species 

 marked like Cuckoo, 197 ; with 

 note like Cuckoo, 290 



Down of young birds, coloured 

 like fur of mammals, 139 



Dragon-flies, often eaten by 

 birds, 75 



Drongo, mimicked by Cuckoo, 

 203 ; police instinct of, 278 



Ducks, colour of eggs, 142 ; 

 feeding habits, 38 ; fledging, 

 124; their heat-endurance, 

 213 ; incubation, 158, 160 ; 

 nesting, 185, 265 



Dwarf Bittern,quick wing-action 

 of, 24 



Eagles, robbing other birds of 

 prey, 312 ; strength of, 57 



Edible-nest Swifts, 182 



Eggs, 141 



Emperor Penguin, breeding- 

 habits, 167 



Emu, incubation peculiarities, 

 159; plucked by Crows, 64 ; 

 striped young, 138 



Enemies of birds, 141 



Falcon, male feeding young, 



in ; method of killing prey, 



56 



Feet used in feeding, 87 

 Finfoots, our ignorance of their 



young, 134 

 Flamingoes, mode of feeding, 



39; style of fledging, 128 

 Fledging, different modes of, 



122 



Flickers, hybridizing forms, 240 

 Flower-peckers, pensile nests of, 



178 ; passing maggots alive, 



9i 



Flycatchers, casting pellets, 94 

 Fowl, bird with no special 



name, 348 ; hybrid, 330, 332 ; 



becoming intoxicated on 



nilloo, 67 



Friar-birds, bathing on wing, 

 3 14 ; chasing Hawks and 

 Crows, 278 



Frigate-birds, involuntary sui- 

 cide of, 25 ; pouch air-inflated, 

 325 ; piratical habits, 312 ; 

 verminous, 316 



Fruit Pigeons, hopping, 15 ; 

 feeding on ground in New 

 Zealand, 66 



Fulmar, supposed abundance of, 

 149 ; scent of egg of, 146 



Gait of birds, 13 



Game-birds, incapacity for mi- 

 gration, 214 ; mode of fight- 

 ing, 295 ; scratching habits, 

 55 ; weapons of, 294 



Game-fowls, fighting powers of, 

 295 ; scratching habits, 55 



Gannet, solitary egg-layer, 146 ; 

 method of flight, 20 



Geese, varied colours of young, 

 136 ; intelligence, 259 ; threa- 

 tening to fight, 300 



Graham, on Hooded Crow, 161 



Great Auk, extinct through flight- 

 lessness, 24 



Grebes, eating own feathers, 

 105 ; mode of alighting, 26 ; 

 young carried by, 114 



Griffon Vultures, driving off 

 smaller species, 69 



Ground-Hornbills, walking gait 

 of, 14 



Ground- Parrakeets, 19 



Grouse, feeding in winter, 209 ; 

 hybrids of, moult of toe- 

 fringes, 328 



Guacharo, feeding habits, 184 ; 

 nest, 184 



Guans, tameness of, 259 



Guinea-Fowl, abnormal variety 



of, 349 



Gulls, character of young, 125 ; 

 drinking fresh water, 99 



Hairy caterpillars eaten by 



Cuckoos, 97 

 Hammerkop, nature and nest of, 



183 



