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Index to Subjects.



Mesia, The Silver-eared, 36

,, „ Young of, 40, 42


Metoponia pusilla, 37, 71

Meyer’s Parrot, 94, 318, 370

Molothrus liter, 355

Molpastes hcemorrhous , 125

Morepork, 332

Mules, Breeding with, 282

,, Hooded Siskin, 282

Mania feruginosa, 140

„ kelaarti, 127

,, pectoralis, 130

,, punctularia , 127


Munias, Hybrid, 140, 176

Myiadectes unicolor, 277

Myiophoneus horsfieldi, 129

,, temmincki, 71


Mynah, Bank, 43


„ Common, 128

„ Gold-crested, 277



N.



Natal Bush Shrike, 98

“ Naturalist in the Guianas,” 224

Naturalist’s Ramble in Algeria, 72

Neochmia phaeton, 163, 164

Neophema bourkei, 256

Nesting boxes for Wild Birds, 259


,, habits of the Brush Turkey, 217

,, Notes on the African Silver-bill,

133


,, of the Grey Singing-finch, 303

,, ,, Rufous Dove, 270


„ ,, Scaly Dove, 278


,, „ Waxwing in Confinement,


22


,, ,, White-fronted, or Violet


Dove, 28


,, „ Yellow-rumped Parrakeet,



Nestlings, Food for, 173

Nicobar Pigeons, 113

Night-heron, Boat-billed, 231

Nile Swallow-tailed Bee-eater, 118

Niltava, Rufous-bellied, 214 70

Niltava sundara, 21

Nonpareil Buntings, 53

Nonpareil, Pintail, 70

Notes on Melanism and Albinism in

Birds, 242


„ ,, Parrakeets, 143, 198


,, „ the Habits in Captivity of the


Brush Bronzewing Pigeon, 211,

263


,, „ the nesting of the Red-headed


or Dominican Cardinal, 267

„ „ the Painted Quails, 311


,, ,, some Birds of the White Nile,


3 i 3 . 370


Numenius arquata, 34

Nutmeg Bird, 127


„ -finch and Silverbill Hybrid^ 115



O.



Ocydromus australis, 277, 329

,, earli, 277

CEna capensis, 99

Officers for the year 1904-3, 333

Olive Finches, 164

Orange-billed Tanager, 37, 335

Oriole, Treatment of Indian, 34

Ornamental Waterfowl, 233

Ouzel, Grey-winged, 57, 116

,, Tickell’s, 329

Oven Bird, 57

Owlets, Pearl-spotted, 99



Owl, Burrowing, 39

,, Pearl-spotted, 98

,, Winking, 71



P.



Pachycephala, 229


,, gntturalis, 61


,, rufiventris, 62


Painted Finch, 169


„ Quails, Some Notes on the, 311

Palceornis peristerodes, 102

„ torquata, 107


,, ty fieri, 132


Paradisea apoiia, 26, 362

,, minor, 26, 362

Paradise Flycatcher, 43


„ Great Bird of, 26, 362


„ King Bird of, 362


,, Lesser Bird of, 26, 362


,, Twelve-wired Bird of, 26


Park Aviary, Birds for, 305

Paroaria capitata, 63


,, cervicalis, 37, 63, 70


,, gularis, 65


,, larvata, 64, 267


Parrakeet Alexandra, 231, 256, 304

,, Black-tailed, 66, 102


,, Bourke’s, 236, 304


,, Breeding of the Rock Pebbler,

66


„ Brown’s, 57, 70


,, Kverett’s, 246


,, Great-billed, 369


,, Malabar, 102


,, Many-coloured, 304


,, Notes, 304


,, Passerine, 205


„ Pennants, 66, 67


,, Princess of Wales’, 251, 256


„ Ring-necked, 107


,, Tui, 70, 102


,, Turquoisine, 200, 304


,, Tytler’s, 132


,, Yellow-rumped, nesting, 353


Parrakeets, Alexandra, 304

,, Blue-handed, 304


,, Marking rings for, 83


„ Notes on, 143, 198


„ Yellow-rumped, 304, 353


,, Yellow-vented, 252


Parrot Finch, 70, 103

Parrot, Amazon with tumour, 253

„ Bahama Amazon, 239

,, Cayman Island, 277, 281

„ Kverett’s Thick-billed, 203, 246

,, Guilding’s Amazon, 121

,, Levaillant’s, 328

,, Meyer’s 94, 370


,, Philippine Racket-tailed, 203, 246

,, “Violet-backed,” 69

Parrots, Food for, 206

„ West Indian, 281

“ Passera solitaria,” 215

Passer luteus, 70

Passerine Parrakeets, 205

Pavoncella pugnax, 58

Peanuts for Doves, 29

Pearl-spotted Owlets, 98, 99

Pectoral Finches, 130, 174

,, Rails, 56

Pekin Nightingale, 299

Penelopides affinis, 170

Pennant’s Parrakeet, 66


,, ,, Homing instinct in, 81


Perfect Lorikeet, 246

Phalacrocorax carbo, 35

Phaps elegans, 211, 263

„ chalcoptera, 211



