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INDEX. 



Note. — The nomenclature followed in this volume is in accordance with 

 A Practical Handbook of British Birds so far as published and 

 A Hand-List of British Birds (i9i2)and the Additions and Corrections 

 thereto in British Birds. Vol. IX., pp. i-io. Vol. XL, pp. 2-5, Vol. 

 XIII., pp. 2-4 and Vol. XV., pp. 2-3, 



Accipitres, A Synopsis of, Second 

 edition, Reviewed, 275. 



AcLAND, Miss C. M., Note on the 

 Goosander and Smew in Surrey, 

 20 ; Letter on the " British 

 Birds " Marking Scheme, 

 220. 



acuta, Anas, see Pintail. 



Additions and Corrections to the 

 Hand-List of British Birds 

 (Fourth List), 2. 



cesalon, Falco c, see MerUn. 



affinis, Larus /., see Gull, Lesser 

 Black-backed . 



alba, Crocethia, see Sanderling. 



alba, Motacilla, see Wagtail, White. 



, Tyto a., see Owl, Barn. 



cdbellus, Mergus, see Smew. 



albeola, Bucephala, see Duck, 

 Buffle-headed. 



albifrons, Anser, see Goose, White - 

 fronted. 



, Sterna a., see Tern, Little. 



Albinism, Starling, 92. 



Alexander, H. G. Notes on Mr. 

 J. P. Burkitt's article on The 

 Relation of Song to Nesting in 

 Birds, 159; Inland Occurrences 

 of Waders, 160. 



Alford, C. E., Notes on the Habits 

 and Courtship of Diving-Ducks, 



33- 



alle, Alle, see Auk, Little. 



alpina, Erolia, see DunUn. 



americanus, Coccyzus, see Cuckoo, 

 American Yellow-billed. 



, Mergus, see Auk, Great. 



anglicus. Dry abates m., see Wood- 

 pecker, Great Spotted. 



anser, Anser, see Goose, Grey Lag-. 



apivorns, Pernis a., see Honey- 

 Buzzard. 



Aplin, B. D'O., Notes on House- 

 Sparrows attacking Lesser 

 Spotted Woodpeckers, 44 ; 



Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 



breeding in August, 115. 

 apricarius, Charadrius, see Plover, 



Golden. 

 apus, A pus a., see Swift. 

 arborea, Lidlula, see Lark, Wood-. 

 Archibald, C. F., Letter on the 



" British Birds " Marking 



Scheme, 217. 

 arctica, Fratercida, see Pufhn. 

 arcticus, C^Jymbus, see Diver, 



Black-throated. 

 arquatus, Numenius, see Curlew, 



Common. 

 arvensis, Alauda, see Lark, Sky-. 

 AsHFORD, W. J., Notes on the 



Breeding-Habits of the Wood- 

 Lark in Dorset, 264. 

 AsTLEY, A., Note on Continental 



Song-Thrush in Westmorland, 



209. 

 ater, Parus, see Tit, Coal-, 39. 

 Atkinson, J., Note on White 



Wagtails in Yorkshire, 242. 

 atra, Fidica, see Coot. 

 atricapilla, Sylvia a., see Blackcap. 

 Auk, Great, Notes on the, 98. 

 , Little, in Shropshire, 242 ; 



in Norfolk, 295. 

 auritus, Podiceps, see Grebe, 



Slavonian. 

 Avocet, Old references to, 162 ; 



Washed up in Lancashire, 274. 



Balfour, H., Varieties of the 

 Common Gannet, 82. 



Bartholomew J., Letter on the 

 " British Birds " Marking 

 Scheme, 219. 



bassana, Sula, See Gannet. 



Bentham, Howard, Notes on 

 Goosanders, Black-necked 



Grebe and Sheld-ducks in 

 Surrev, 89 ; Spread of Little 

 Owl to the Sussex Coast, 160. 



