INDEX. 289 



Raven and Puffin ; i. 229. 



attachment to a dog; i. 232; ii. 180. 



Razor-bill chased by a Hawk ; ii. 263. 

 Rearing Pheasants ; ii. 97. 



Redbreast builds in a dining-room curtain ; ii. 32. 

 in a shool-house ; ii. 33. 



in a church ; ii. 34. 



Red-legged Crow ; i. 252. 



Redpole and Goldfinch ; ii. 10. 



Redstart's nest in the hinge of a door ; ii. 30. 



Ring- Dotterel ; ii. 153. 



Rooks; i. 235. 



Rookeries; i. 250. 



Ropes of hide used in St. Kilda ; ii. 273. 



Sacred Ibis; ii. 168. 



Sandpipers on the sea-shore ; ii. 152. 



Screamer, Horned, Palamadea ; ii. 129. 



Sea-birds, feeding on fish; ii. 215. 



found far out at sea ; i. 95. 



Swallow, or Tern ; ii. 228. 



Sitta Europea, Nuthatch ; ii. 67. 

 Sheldrake builds in rabbit-holes ; ii. 202. 

 Shoveller Duck's bill ; i. 32. 



of New Holland ; i. 33. 



Shrike, or Butcher-bird ; i. 193. 



used for hawking ; i. 203. 



Skeleton of a bird ; i. 28, 42. 

 Skimmer (Rhynchops) ; ii. 227. 

 Snake-eater, Vultur serpentarius ; i. 145. 

 Snipe's attachment to place ; ii. 159. 



mode of feeding ; i. 31 .- 



Snowy Owl, habits of the; i. 178, 182. 



Song in birds pleasurable ; i. 75. 



South Stack, punctual return of sea-birds to the ; i. 112. 



Spider, height to which they ascend in the air ; ii. 50. 



Sparrow, boldness of ; ii. 1 8. 



