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INDEX 



Pigeons, breeds of: 

 Satinette, 255 

 Scandaroon, 273 

 Shield, 272 

 Swallow, 272 

 Tippler, 267-9 

 Trumpeter, 273 

 Tumbler, Exhibition, 264-7; 

 Parlor, 263-4 '■> Perform- 

 ing, 260-4; West of Eng- 

 land, 263 

 Turbit, English, 254-5 ; Ori- 

 ental, 256 

 Turbiteen, 256 

 Pigeons, Wild, breeding, 113 

 care, 112 

 food, 113 

 species of: 

 Band-tailed, 114 

 Bleeding-heart, 115 

 Bronze-wing, 116 

 Crowned, 1 17-18 ^ 



Passenger, 112 

 Red-billed, 114 

 Piping Crow, Black-backed, 180; 



White-backed, 180 

 Pithecus rhesus, 52 

 Platypoecilius maculatus, 341 

 Poecilia amazonica, 341 

 pavonina, 341 

 sphenops, 341 

 vivipara, 341 

 Poephila acuticauda, 199 

 cincta, 199 

 gouldiae, 200 

 mirabilis, 200 

 personata, 199 

 Poliospiza leucopygia, 186 

 Pomeranian, 11 

 Procyon lotor, 56 

 Psittacosis, 79 

 P sit taenia passerina, 166 

 Psittacus erythacus, 161 

 Psitteuteles chlorolepidotus, 154 

 Pterophyllum scalare, 349 

 Puppy, 7 



Pyromelana afra, 191 

 Hammiceps, 191 

 franciscana, 191 

 taha, 192 

 Pyrrhula pyrrhula, 184 



Quail, breeding, 108-9 

 cage for, 108 

 care, 108 



Quail, food, 107 

 species of: 

 Bobwhite, Eastern, 107, lOQ; 

 Florida, iio; Texan, no 

 California, 107, no 

 Gambel, 107, no 

 Montezuma, no 

 Mountain, 107, no 

 Scaled, no 

 Quelea quelea, 192 



russi, 192 

 Querquedula cyanoptera, 133 

 discors, 133 

 versicolor, 134 



Rabbit, Domestic, ancestry, 22 

 breeding, 21 

 care, 19 

 food, 20 

 hutches, 19-20 

 breeds of: 

 Angora, 20, 27 

 Belgian Hare, 18, 19, 22 

 Black-and-tan, 24 

 Dutch, 19, 25 

 English, 26-7 

 Flemish Giant, 19, 23 

 Himalayan, 26 

 Lop-ear, 25 

 Polish, 24 



Silver Brown, 24; Fawn, 

 24 ; Gray, 24 

 Rabbit, Wild, cage, 60-1 

 food, 61 

 species of: 

 Cottontail, 61 

 Jack, 61 

 Snowshoe, 6i 

 Rabies, 7 

 Raccoon, 55-6 

 Rana catesbiana, 310 

 clamitans, 310 

 palustris, 311 

 pipiens, 310 

 sylvatica, 311 

 Rashora heteromorpha, 343 

 Rat, Domestic, ancestry, 47 

 cage, 48 

 care, 47-8 

 colors of, 48-9 

 food, 48 

 Rhinichthys cataractae, 333 

 Rivulus Hahellicauda, 338 

 ocellata, 338 

 poeyi, 338 



