376



Index to Subjects.



H.


Halcyon smyrnettsis, 125

Halia star Indus, 128

Hang-nest, Red-headed, 70

Hardwickit chloropsts, 70

Hardwick’s Chloropsis, 104

Hatching and rearing of Brush Turkeys,

294


Health of Small Finches. 360

Heating Apparatus for Bird-rooms, 143

Hemipodes, 99, 209

Herodias alba, 124

Heron, Boat-billed Night, 251

.,, Purple, 125

Highland Lochs, On, 30

Himalayan Whistling-Thrush, 71

Homing instinct in Pennant’s Parrakeet,

81


Hooded Crow, 35


„ Crows, Rearing, 282

,, Siskin Mules, 282

Hornbill, Philippine, 170

Hunting Cissa, 103

Hybrid, Bicheno-Zebra, 164


,, Blackgame and Grouse, 300

„ Munias, 140, 176

,, Nutmeg-finch and Silver-bill, 115


,, Redrnmp and Rosella, 103


,, Rheas, 301


Hybrids, On Some Turtle-Dove, and their

fertility, 191



I.


Ibis, Glossy, 71

„ White, 71


Identification of Lorikeet, 205

Illustration Fund, 256, 280, 309, 334

Indian Crested Bunting, 103

,1 Green-winged Dove, 333

,, Oriole, Treatment of, 54

Influence of Diet on the Avian death-rate,

49 ,. 79 , 119


Insectivorous birds, Sponge-cake for, 114


J.


Jackal Buzzards, 302

Jackson’s Francolins, 223

Jameson’s Gulls, 71

Jay, Food for, 144

Jay-Tlirush, White-crested, 297

Jays, Blue-bearded, 103

Java Sparrows, 56


K.


Kestrel, Large African, 71

Kestrels, South African, 71

Kingfisher, Blue, 125

Kingfishers, Laughing, 277


,, White-breasted, 125

King Parrakeet, 198

Kites, Brahminey, 128


L.


Lag-geese, Grey, 35

Lagonosticta larvata, 103


,, nivciguttata, 69, 164


,, rufopicta, 69, 103, 164


,, vinacea, 103, 164


Lagopus scolicus, 34



Lauiarius gutturalis, 98

,, quadricolor, 98

Lapwing, 35


Large African Kestrel, 71


,, -billed Ground-Thrush, 180

Lams canus, 33, 34

,, fuscus, 34

„ martinis, 33

,, novoe-hollaudte, 71

,, ridibundus, 71

Lathamus discolor, 168

Laughing Kingfishers, 277


,, Owl of New Zealand, 331

Leadbeater’s Cockatoo, 67

Leptoptila jantaicensis, 28

,, leichenbachi, 270

Lesser Bird of Paradise, 26

,, Blue-winged Pitta, 71

Le Vaillaut’s Amazon Parrot, 206

Levaillant’s Parrot, 328

Leucophceus scoresbii, 71

Litmra Jinschi, 173

Liothiix lutea, 299

List of Members, 1

Little Button Quail, 208

„ Lorikeet, 142


Live Birds in 1856, Prices obtained for, 142

Lochs, On Highland, 30

Long-claw, Cape, 99


„ -tailed Rose-Finch, 71

,, ,, Whydah, 97


Lnphophaps plumifei a, 230

Loriculus tndicus, 127

Lories, Blue Mountain, 200

Lorikeet, Identification of,


,, Little, 142


,, Perfect, 246


,, Red-collared, 57, 69, 102

„ Swainson’s, 168


,, Swift, 168


,, Varied, 69, 102, 164, 169


,, Weber’s, 246


Loriquet, Ceylonese, 127

Lovebirds, Red-faced, 253, 282, 350



M.


Macronvx capensis, 99

Magazine, The Society’s, 177

Magpie 'l'anager, 70, 103

Malabar Parrakeet, 102

,, Thrush, 129


Management of the Avicultural Society,

The, 367


Mandarin Duck, 89, 174

Many-coloured Parrakeet, 304

Mareca penelope, 34

Marking rings for Parrakeets, 83

Martineta Tinamou breeding in Captivity,

104


Masked Fire-Finch, 103

Mealy Rosellas, 199


Medal, The Society’s, 18, 58, 280, 308. 366

Medicine to birds, The administration of,

78, 144


Melanism, 242


,, in Gouldian Finches, 331

Melophus melanicierus, 70, 103

Melospiza cinerea melodia, 334

Members, List of, 1

Merganser, Red-breasted, 33

Mergus serrator, 35

HI crops vividis, 128

Memla, 71

Merula boulboul, 37

,, unicolor, 329

Mesia argentauris, 36



