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INDEX, 



NOAH The Pigeon sent out of the 



ark by him, 9. 

 NUNS, 100; beautiful plumage of, 102. 



OLIVE BRANCH Universal token of 



peace, 10. 



ORACLES, use of Pigeons for, 22. 

 ORNITHOLOGY, small results of its 



study, 227. 

 ORTOLANS, 394 ; diet, 399; fatted for 



table, 396, 400 ; plumage, 398 ; 



prices, 399 ; York dish of, 397. 

 OWEN'S (Professor) Notes on the Moa, 



or Dinornis, 362. 

 OWLS, 108. 



PAIRING OF PIGEONS, 60; mode of 

 inducing, 144. 



PAN for nests, 40. 



PARADOXICAL INCREASE of Pigeons, 

 5. 



PARAGUAY GUAN, 249. 



PARIS, Pigeon matches at, 171. 



PASSENGER PIGEONS, 215; nests, 5. 



PEACE, tokens of, 10. 



PEACOCK PIGEONS, 90. 



PEEWITS, 319. 



PENALTIES for destroying Pigeons, 

 49. 



PENELOPES, or Guans, 245. 



PER FORMANCES of Tumbler Pigeons, 

 114. 



PERUVIAN BARK, 361. 



PETRE'S (Colonel) Pigeon-house, 46. 



PHAPS, a genus of Pigeons, 195. 



PIGEONS, ancient mode of fatting, 27; 

 Arabian legend regarding, 11; at- 

 tachment to their home, 145 ; breed- 

 ing, 55; chick, 58; classification, 

 70,85; courtship, 55; crosses, 125; 

 different kinds of houses for, 36; 

 difficulty of settling, 52; domesti- 

 cated in the earliest times,! 1 ; eggs, 

 5,63, 142, 214; favoritism towards 

 their young, 142; usual food, 36, 146; 

 friendship of, for the Kestrel Hawk, 

 30; guides to water in Australia, 

 196, 204; habitations of, in ancient 

 times, 26; newly hatched, 58; not 

 found in the hieroglyphics, 16 ; high 

 prices, 18; must have a home, 35; 

 incubation, 56; instinct, 128 ; used 

 in the Jewish sacrifices, 12 ; laws re- 

 garding, 49 ; used as letter carriers, 

 19; localities, 14; management, 34; 

 used in medicine, 173; misuse of 

 the name, 71 ; mode of feeding, 41 ; 

 may be reared by the mouth, 174 ; 

 nests, 62 ; sent by Noah out of the 

 ark, 9; pairing, 60; paradoxical in- 

 crease, 5; feeding-places for, 38; 

 pleasure of keeping, 2; plumage, 

 8; quarrels, 142; red feet of, 11; 

 salt and water for, 42; mentioned 

 in Scripture, 9; best sort to keep, 



147; thirstiness, 145; tithes of, 47; 

 value of, as provision, 13; ventrilo- 

 quism, 204; used in warfare, 24; 

 warmth, 172; worship of, 22; 

 young, 36; young of, 7; feed their 

 own young, 35 ; helplessness of their 

 young, 64 ; rapid growth of young, 

 109. 



PIGEONS, Almond Tumbler, 115; 

 American, 15, 215 ; Archangels, 99 ; 

 Australian, 190; Bald-Pates, 119; 

 Barbs/lll ; Blue Rock, 152; Bronze- 

 winged, 194 ; Capuchins, 103 ; Car- 

 riers, 126; Collared Turtle, 174; 

 Crested Marsh, 200, 211 ; Croppers, 

 121; Domestic, 86; Domestic and 

 Wild, 150; Dovehouse, 15; Dra- 

 goons, 125; Fancy, 16; Fantails.86; 

 Feral, 15; Foreign, 220; Frizzled, 

 141; Graceful Ground, 209; Harle- 

 quin Bronze-winged, 203, 205 ; Hel- 

 mets, 119; Horsemen, 126; Jaco- 

 bines, 103; Jamaica, 220; Lace, 141 ; 

 Laughing, 180; Long-tailed Sene- 

 gal, 218; Lumachelle, 197; Mon- 

 dains,92; Nuns, 100; Owl, 108; Pas- 

 senger, 215; Peacock, 90; Powters, 

 120; Ring Doves, 188; Rock, 13, 

 152; Runts, 92; Russian, 94; Sene- 

 gal, 218; Shakers, 92; Spanish, 48; 

 Speckled Dove, 209 ; Stock Doves, 

 187; Trumpeters, 98; Tumblers, 

 112; Turbits, 106; Turtle Doves, 

 189; Wild, 187; Wonga-Wonga, 

 192 ; Wood, 28. 



PIGEON-FANCIERS in ancient times, 

 16; and Pigeon-keepers, 104. 



PIGEON-FLESH apreventive of plague, 

 162. 



PIGEON-HOUSES, 3, 36, 44. 



PIGEON-LOFTS, 37. 



PIGEON-MATCHES defended, 168; at 

 Paris, 171. 



PIGEON-RACES in Belgium, 136. 



PINTADO, or Guinea-fowl, 72. 



PLEASURE of keeping Pigeons, 2. 



PLINY on Pigeons, 17, 18. 



PLINY'S DOVES, 29. 



PLOVERS, 318. 



PLUMAGE, of Curassows, 241 ; Emeu, 

 372; Humming-birds, 8; Pigeons, 

 8; Water Hen', 287. 



POLE-HOUSE for Pigeons, 44. 



POWTERS, 120 ; called Croppers, 121 ; 

 inflation of the crops of, 121 ; co- 

 lours of, 123; anecdote of, 124; 

 treatment of, when sick, 124; 

 crosses of, 125. 



PRICES given for Fancy Pigeons, 18. 



PROPERTY in Pigeons protected, 48. 



PRUSSIAN GRENADIERS, 117- 



QUAILS, 374; anecdote, 386; in cap- 

 tivity, 382; mode of cooking, 390; 

 immense flocks, 377 > food, 387; 



