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INDEX 



PAIN, effect of on animals, 227 



Pairing for life, ducks, 50 



Pallid harrier, 140, 293, 360, 434 



Palm-swift, 109, 254 



Pandion haliaetus, 376 



Pangolin, 334 



Papyrus, 55, 135, 136, 179, 242, 258, 



260, 261 



Parkinsonia, 303 

 Parrots, 61, 324 

 Partridge, Cholmley's rock-, 347, 349, 



372, 380 



Parus leucomelas, 317 

 Pearl-spotted barbet, 384 



owlet, 324 



- Pearson, Sydney J , 246, 405, 410 

 Pelecanus onocratulus, 114; rufescens, 



114 

 Pelicans, 43, 114, 131, 138, 234, 262, 



397, 429 



diving from the wing, 234 



mode of fishing, 234 

 Penduline tit, 255 

 Perceptions of animals, 363 

 Perch, Nile, 138, 225 

 Peregrine falcon, 109, no, 124, 320 

 Petherick, John, 160, 193, 231 

 Phaeton ethereus, 391 

 Pied crows, 140, 256 

 Pigeons, guinea, 109 

 Pigmy woodpecker, 384 

 Pike, Mr Arnold, 204 

 Pintail, 40, 43, 50, 309, 315 

 Pipit, brown rock-, 380 



red-throated, 293, 304 



tawny, 384 



tree-, 304 



Pistia straliotes, 203, 257 

 Plants, armed, 3 

 Platalea leucorodia, 397 

 P lotus, 58, 113 

 Plover, Egyptian, 43, 292 



Kentish, 113, 390 



ringed, 113, 292, 390 



spur-wing, 43, 61, 113, 114, 115, 139, 



293 g 



spur-wing, white-headed, 293 

 Plumage, dimorphic, 317, 327 

 Pochards, 51, 315 



Pocock, Mr R. L., 343 



Podiceps, 253 



Polar origin of life, 48 



Population, of Sudan, 20, 391, 392, 399 



rapid increase in, 214 

 Porcupine, 253, 322 

 Porphyrio alleni, 266 



an unknown, 226, 266 

 Port Sudan, 20, 391, 392, 399 

 Possibilities of Sudan, 259, 274, 312 

 Pratincoles, 239, 255 

 Prickly pear, 397 

 Printa, 118 

 Prionops, 124 

 Pririt flycatchers, 118, 255 

 Problem of food (Nile wildfowl), 45 



(grain-eating finches), 313 

 Protopterus cethiopicus, 140 

 P (erodes exustus, 398 



lichtensteini, 398 



quadricinctuS) 118, 120, 250 

 Punitive expeditions, 213, 281 

 Purple-winged coursers, 255 

 Pycnonotus arstnbe, 304, 383 



tricolor, 255 



Pyromelana franciscana, 284, 313 

 Pyrrhulauda, 27, 255, 360, 395, 433 

 Pytelia, 285, 320, 324 

 Pythons, water-, 268 



QUAIL, button-, 317 

 Quelea cethiopica, 313 



RAILS, 58, 64, 266 



Range of species, 10 



Rat, cane-, 63 



Rat-snakes, 122 



Rat, striped, 252, 322 



Ratel, 253, 322 



Rats and mice, 253, 323 



Raven, broad-winged, 124, 380 



brown-necked, 359 

 Red-naped merlin, 255 

 Red-hot pokers, 350, 375 

 Redshank, 390 ; spotted, 293, 297 

 Redstart, 255, 304, 348 

 Reedbuck, 91, 132, 133, 180, 208, 282, 



335 

 Chanler's, 338 



