288 INDEX. 



Peacocks formerly prized as dainties ; ii. 99. 

 Pelican's beak ; i. 37. 



traditions of; ii. 213. 

 Penguin's selection for breeding-place ; ii. 268. 



trade in the Shetland Islands ; ii. 271. 



Petrel, used as a candle ; ii. 252. 



Stormy, sailors' superstition of ; ii. 253. 



found inland ; ii. 254. 



Pheasant attacks a lady ; ii. 93. 



directions for rearing them ; ii. 97. 



Pigeons living peaceably with a Hawk ; i. 1 73. 



Passenger ; ii. 84. 



Wood; ii. 89. 



's nest by a litter of kittens ; ii. 92. 



Platypus, Duck-billed ; i. 33. 

 Ptiloris Paradiscus, plumage of ; i. 77. 

 Plover, Stilted ; i. 46. 



Egyptian, anecdote of an ; ii. 156". 



Plumage of Birds considered ; i. 77, 81, 82. 



, change of colour ; i. 82. 



Pouch of the Hurgila, use of; ii. 140. 



Bustard; ii. 112. 



Poultry tribe ; ii. 84. 



Pressirostral, or Narrow-beaked ; ii. 119. 



Ptarmagan, its mode of escaping birds of prey ; i. 183. 



Puff-backed Shrike ; i. 205. 



Puffin and Raven ; i. 229. 



or Sea-Parrot ; ii. 261. 



how caught ; ii. 261. 



Quails; ii. 109. 



Rails; ii. 129. 



Rain, why Swallows fly low during ; ii. 50. 



Rapacious birds ; i. 115. 



Rapidity of flight ; i. 81, 91. 



Raven, notices of the ; i. 222. 



tame in wild state ; i. 235. 



