Index 



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Pacific coast [continued] — 

 Ducks [continued] — 



Widgeon, 526, 530. 



Wood-duck, 514. 

 Geese — 



Abundance in recent years, 



533- 

 Canada goose, 533. 

 Difficulties of hunting, 532. 

 Occasional, 543. 

 Salt-water goose, 544. 

 Snow goose, 541, 543. 

 White-fronted goose, 539, 



544- 

 Sand-hill crane, 553. 

 Shore-birds, 557. 

 Swan hunting, 551. 

 Waders, 557. 

 Pacific eider [somateria v-nigra~\ 



170. 

 Pacific godwit \limosa lapponica 



baueri~\ 397. 

 Pacific golden plover \charadrius 



dominicus fulvus] 463. 

 Pass shooting — 



Locations, etc., 12. 

 North Dakota recollections, 13. 

 Pavoncella pugnax, ruff, 426. 

 Pearson's Pond, duck-shooting, 50. 

 Pectoral sandpiper \tringa macu- 

 lata] — 

 Characteristics, 370-373. 

 Shooting on the marshes, 313. 

 Phalaropes \_phalaropodid&] — 

 Characteristics, 319. 

 Diagnosis of family, 573. 

 Northern, 323. 

 Red, 320. 

 Wilson's, 327. 

 Pkalaropus lobattts, Northern phala- 



rope, 323. 

 Philacte canagica, Emperor goose, 



251. 

 Philohela minor, American wood- 

 cock, 340. 



Pied-duck, see Labrador duck. 

 Pintail {dafila acuta] 109. 



Hybrids with mallard, 75, 202. 



Pacific coast, 521. 

 Piping plover [cegialitis meloda] 471. 

 Piping plover, belted, 473. 

 Plovers [charadriida] — 



American golden plover, 462. 



Belted piping, 473. 



Black-bellied, 456. 



Characteristics of family, 451- 



452- 

 Diagnosis of family, 576. 

 Dotterel, 454. 

 European golden, 461. 

 European ring, 469. 

 Golden plover, see that title. 

 Killdeer, 464. 

 Lapwing, 452. 

 Little ring, 470. 

 Mongolian, 475. 

 Mountain, 478. 

 Pacific golden plover, 463. 

 Piping, 471. 



Ringed plover, see that title. 

 Semipalmated, 466. 

 Snowy, 473. 

 Wilson's, 477. 

 "Plovers' eggs" laid by lapwing, 453. 

 Porzana Carolina, Carolina rail, 284. 

 Porzana coturniculus, farallone rail, 



292. 

 Porzana jamaicensis, black rail, 291. 

 Porzana noveboracensis, yellow rail, 



288. 

 Porzana porzana, spotted crake, 284. 

 Pribilof Islands, turnstone, 486. 

 Pribilof sandpiper [tringa ptilocne- 



mis] 367. 

 Prince Edward's Island, blackbreast- 



shooting, 458. 

 Purple gallinule \ionornis martin- 



ica] 294. 

 Purple sandpiper [tringa maritima] 

 362. 



