Index to Subjects.



373



Red-faced Lovebird, 32

,, -headed Finch, 72

„ - ,, Gouldian Finch, 327


„ Lory, 196


,, -necked Phalarope, 59, 309, 363

Redpoll, 339

Redrump, 126, 137

Redstart, Black, 167


,, Plumbeous, 112


,, White-capped, 112, 171


Red-throated Tanager, no, 170

„ -whiskered Bulbul, 334

Reeve, 250


Remarkable Family of Blackbirds, A., 363


Reviews :


Bird News, 223


Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’

Club,Vol. 22, (Third Migration Report)

79


Butler (A. G.) Foreign Birds for Cage and

Aviary, Part I., 78


Dewar (D.) and Finn (F.) The Making of

Species, 301

Emu, The, 80, 222


Flower (Capt. S. S.) and Nicoll (M. J.)

Wild Birds in the Giza Zoological Gar¬

dens, 172


Haagner (A. K.) South African Birds of

Prey, 79


Howard (H. E.) The British Warblers,

Part 3, 221


Jourdaiu (Rev. F. C. R.) The Eggs of

European Birds, Part 3, 194

Pigott (Sir Digby), The Changeling, 54

Report of the Royal Zoological Society

of Ireland for 1908, 194

Travel and Exploration, 142


Rheas, T58


Rhipidura preissi, 48

Rhodospiza obsoleta, 270

Ribbon Finch, 72

Rifle Bird, 82

Robin, 328

,, American, 104

„ Cape, 245

„ Pekin, 127, 143, 265

„ Scarlet-breasted, 212

,, Temminck’s, 241

,, White-breasted, 74

,, Yellow-breasted, 163, 212

Rock Bunting, no

,, Doves, 67


,, Grass-Parrakeet, 168, 357

,, Ptarmigan, 55, 252

„ Thrush, Pied, 279, 3x1

Roller, Indian, 352

Rook, 363


Rose-breasted Grosbeak, 99

Rosella Parrakeet, 137, 163, 293, 325

,, ,, Mealy, 126


Rosellas, 126


Rosy-faced Lovebird, 32, 109

,, Pastor, 267

Rubigula dispar, 215, 236

,, ftaviveniris, 240


,, gularis, 239


,, melanictera, 240


Ruby-throated Bulbul, 215, 236

Rubv-throats, 241

Ruff, 250

Ruficaudas, 70


Rufous-backed Mannikin, 321


,, -chinned Laughing-Thrush, 172,


215


,, -necked Weaver, 300

Rules of the Avicultural Society, 16

Riippell’s Vultures, 268

Rustic Tyrant, 329

Rusty-cheeked Babbler, 171



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Sacred Ibis, 269


,, Kingfisher, 77, 212

St. Helena Seed-eater, 252

Sarciophorus pectoralis, 36

Sarus Crane, 275

Saxicola monticola, 131

Scaly-crowned Finch, no

,, -fronted Weaver, 170

Scarlet-breasted Robin, 212

,, Tanager, 249

Scaup, 58


Scimitar Babbler, 172

Scopus umbretta, 230

Scoters, 38

Scrub Wren, 164

Secretary Bird, 250, 268

Seed-eater, Large Yellow. 308

„ „ St. Helena, 252


„ „ Sulphury, 334


Seesee Partridge, 305, 333

Selenidera maculirostris, 274

Senegal Dove, 245, 326

Serin, Black-faced, 110, 170

Serinus capistratus, 110, 170

,, sulphuiatus, 308

Sexual selection in birds, 335

Sex of Stanley Parrakeets, 223, 248, 276

Shama, 112


Sharp-tailed Finch, 127

,, ,, Petrel, 133


Shining Flycatcher, 294

Short-billed Minivet, 308

,, -eared Owl, 353

Shovellers, 147, 270

Shrike, Bacbakiri, 244

,, F'iscal, 244

,, Grey, 167

,, Red-backed, 244

,, -Thrush, Grey, 163

,, ,, Melodious, 163


Sibia, Black-headed, 112, 172, 265

Silver-eared Mesia, 236, 265

„ Gull, 133

,, Pheasant, 269

Siva, Blue-winged, 1x2, 172, 265

Siva cyanuroptera, 265

Six-plumed Bird of Paradise, 61, 159

Small White Scavenger Vulture, 355

Snipe, Common, 141

Snowcock, Himalayan, 1x3

Snowy Owl, 147

Sociable Vulture, 268

Society’s Medal, The, 20, 112

Soft parts of the Blue-naped Coly, The, 94

Solitaire, Townsend’s, 250

Some Great Bustards, 184

Sonnerat’s Jungle Fowl, 37

Sooty Albatross, 135

South American Flamingo, 230

Southern Rea-whiskered Bulbul, 266

Sparrow, Cape, 245


„ Cinnamon Tree, 201, 205


„ Diamond, 127


,, Grey-headed, 334

,, House, 138, 140


„ Java, 127


,, Tree, 140, 331


,, Yellow, 270


,, „ -throated, 331


Spathopterus alexandrce, 158

Spermestes nigriceps, 321

Sperviophila, 170

Spermospiza guttata, no, 169

Spice-bird, 127

Spine-bill, 213

,, -billed Honey-eater, 164

Sporopipes squamifrons, 110, 170



