INDEX. 



455 



GALL, DR., on animal instinct, 130. 



GALLINACB.>E, characteristics of, 1. 



GALLINULE, or Water Hen, 282. 



GEOPELIA, or Ground Dove, 205, 209. 



GEOPHAPS Plumifera, 211. 



GLOW-WORMS, 437. 



GOOSE, Sandwich Island, 426. 



GOULD'S Birds of Australia quoted, 

 192, 195, 210, 229. 



GRACEFUL GROUND DOVE, 209; the 

 smallest Pigeon existing, 210. 



GRALLATORES, or Waders, 313; of 

 India, 315. 



GRATITUDE of Storks, 337. 



GROUND DOVES of Australia, 198, 

 205 ; of Jamaica, 220. 



GROWTH of young Pigeons very 

 rapid, 109. 



GUANS, 245; can they be domesti- 

 cated in England? 251,256; reared 

 in Holland, 254; repeated attempts 

 to rear them in England, 258, 266 ; 

 at Knowsley, 255 ; at the Zoological 

 Gardens, 261 ; food, 262, 271 ; 

 habits, 263, 268 ; singularity of their 

 windpipes, 248. 



GUINEA FOWL, 72. 



GULLS, 402; great age, 403; good 

 nature, 402 ; management of in cap- 

 tivity, 403; eggs, 409; food, 405; 

 tameable and docile, 414; voracity, 

 406; Herring, 410; Icelandic, 412; 

 Skuas, 413. 



GULLERY, 406. 



HABITATIONS of Fancy Pigeons in 



ancient times, 26. 

 HALCYONS, 298; nest, 299. 

 HARDINESS of young Pigeons, 7- 

 HARLEM, siege of, 26. 

 HARLEQUIN Bronze-winged Pigeon, 



203, 205; discovery of, 206 ; bred in 



England, 208. 

 HAWK, friendship of Pigeons for the, 



30. 



HELMETS, 119. 

 HELPLESSNESS of newly-hatched 



Pigeons, 58, 64. 

 HEN PIGEONS will pair together, 60 ; 



widowed, 61. 

 HERONS, 320; anecdote of, 308; in 



captivity, 321. 

 Hoccos, 257. 

 HOLLAND, Curassows in, 233, 242; 



Guans in, 2">4 



HONEYMOON of Pigeons, 55. 

 HORSKMEN, 126. 

 HOUSES for Pigeons, 37. 

 HUMMING-BIRDS, beauty of, 8. 

 HYBRID PIGEONS, 184. 



ICELANDIC GULL, 412. 

 INCREASE of Pigeons, 5, 35, 57. 

 INCUBATION of Pigeons, 56. 

 INDIA, wild Pigeons in, 14. 



INSTINCT in Carrier Pigeons, 129. 

 ISPIDA, or Kingfisher, 298. 



JACKASS, Laughing, 311. 



JACKS, 103, 



JACOBINES, 103; unproductive and 



unsteady, 103 ; description, 105 ; 



picture of, 106. 

 JAMAICA PIGEONS, 220. 

 JERUSALEM, siege of, 24. 



KANGAROOS, 67, 355. 



KESTREL HAWK, 30. 



KINGFISHER, 297; the Halcyon of the 

 ancients, 297; anecdotes, 305; aviary, 

 303; beauty of their plumage, 300; 

 in captivity, 302; cry, 311; food, 

 301, 305, 306; habits, 300; pug- 

 nacity, 307; selfishness, 308; exist 

 without water, 310; African, 310; 

 Australian, 202, 310; Laughing 

 Jackass, 311. 



KITES, a species of Tumbler Pigeons, 

 115. 



KNOWSLEY, aviaries at, 237; Aus- 

 tralian Pigeons, 212; Cranes, 320; 

 Curassows, 238; Emeus, 369; Guans, 

 255, 272-; Sandwich Bernicle, 428. 



LACE PIGEONS, 141. 



LAPWINGS, 317. 



LARUS or Gull, 402. 



LAUGHING DOVES, 180. 



LAW for protection of Pigeons, 48. 



LEGHORN RUNT, 147. 



LKIPOA ocellata, 65. 



LETTER CARRIERS, Pigeons used as, 



19, 127. 



LETTER DOVES of Bagdad, 128. 

 LIFE, a progress, 4. 

 LOCALITY, bump of, in Pigeons, 130. 

 LONG-TAILED SENEGAL DOVE, 218. 

 LUMACHELLE PIGEONS, 197- 



MAHOMET'S DOVE, 23. 

 MARABOUS, 315. 

 MARRAM BANKS, 328. 

 MATCHES Pigeon shooting, 168; at 



Paris, 171. 



MIGRATIONS of Quails, partial, 381. 

 MOAS of New Zealand, 364. 

 MOORE'S Ode to a Dove, 20. 

 MOSAIC of Doves, 29. 

 Music of Nature, 376. 

 MUTUNS, or Curassows, 239. 



NAPIER, on Pigeon shooting in Malta, 

 158; on Quail shooting, 377. 



NATURALISTS, absurd theories of, 314. 



NESTS of the Curassow, 240; Halcyon, 

 299; Pigeons, 62; Water Hen, 295. 



NESTING-PLACES for Pigeons, 38. 



NEW ZEALAND, Wonder-Birds of, 

 32. 



NIGHTINGALES, 43ft; cage for, 451. 



