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INDEX 



Masked Bob-white, 124, 356 



Masked duck, 365 



Massena partridge, 107, 135, 136, 357; 



range, 132 ; tameness, 136 

 May -bird, 296 

 Mergansers, 241-244, 363 

 Mershon, Mr. W. B., quoted, 349 

 Mexican Jacana, 382 

 Mexican turkey, 46 

 Miller, Mr., quoted, 59 

 Mongolian pheasant, 58, 348 

 Mottled-duck, 220, 367 

 Mountain partridge, 355 

 Mountain plover, 307, 314 

 Mourning dove, 385 

 Mud-hen, 382 

 Mud-snipe, 267 



NELSON'S PTARMIGAN, 353 



Nittany Club, 21, 50 



Northern phalarope, 318, 319, 381 



OLD-SQUAW DUCK, 197, 201, 202, 364 ; 



shooting, 197-199 

 Oregon ruffed-grouse, 60, 351 

 Ottawa Club, 23, 54 

 Ox-eye, 380 



PACIFIC EIDER DUCK, 202 



Pacific godwit, 298, 373 



Pacific golden plover, 307, 378 



Papabote, 283 



Partridge, Bob-white, 356 



Partridges, 106, 354-357; young, no; 

 migration, no, in ; in winter, in, 

 112; range, 112, 113; protection of, 

 113, 114; shooting, 115-120; guns 

 and shot, 115, 119; habits, 121, 122; 

 percentage killed, 123 ; albinos, 124. 



Passenger pigeon, 336, 339, 386 



Pectoral sandpiper, 291, 305, 306, 372 



Peep, 380 



Phalaropes, 318-320, 381 



Pheasants, introduced into the United 

 States, 52 ; shooting, 53-55 ; breed- 

 ing, 56-58 ; Mongolian and English, 

 58, 352 



Pied duck, 361 



Pigeons, 334-336, 339-345, 386, 387 

 " Pil willet," 303 

 Pin-tail duck, 236, 237, 369 

 Pinnated grouse, 349 

 Piping plover, 307, 315, 377 

 Plovers, 307-315, 377-379 

 Plumed partridge, 355 

 Pointers, compared with setters, 14 

 Pond sheldrake, 244 

 Prairie-grouse, 65, 66; shooting, 66- 



7i 



Prairie-hen or chicken, 65, 349 



Prairie pigeon, 283 



Prairie sharp-tailed grouse, 350 



Princess Anne Club, 26 



Ptarmigan, 103, 352, 353; wildness, 



104 



Pueblo Bob-white, 108 

 Punters, 205, 206 

 Purple sandpiper, 376 



QUAIL, see Partridge 

 Quail-dove, 383 



RAILS, 327, 328, 383, 384; shooting, 



328-332 



Red-backed sandpiper, 297, 376 



Red-billed pigeon, 386 



Red-breasted merganser, 241, 243, 363 



Red-breast plover, 296 



Red-breasted snipe, 267, 294, 295, 371 



Red curlew, 299 



Red-head duck, 181, 182, 362 ; de- 

 struction of, 183, 184 ; shooting, 184, 



185 



Red phalarope, 318, 319, 381 

 Red sandpiper, 296 

 Reed-bird, 333, 388 

 Reinhardt's ptarmigan, 353 

 Rice-bird, 387 

 Richardson's grouse, 352 

 Ring-neck duck, 187, 188, 361 

 Ring-neck pheasant, 58, 348 

 Ring-neck plover, 315, 377 

 Ring-plover, 307 

 Rio Grande turkey, 46 



