Index 



595 



Shore-birds [continued] — 

 Pacific coast, 557. 

 Phalaropes, see that title. 

 Plovers, see that title. 

 Ringed plovers, see that title. 

 Sandpipers, see that title. 

 Shooting, see Shore-bird shoot- 

 ing. 

 Snipe, see that title. 

 Species found in North America, 



319- 



Stilts, see that title. 



Surf bird, see that title. 



Turnstone, see that title. 



Wilson's snipe, see that title. 



Woodcocks, see that title. 



Yellowlegs, see that title. 

 Shoveller [spatula clypeata~\ 105. 

 Siberian coast, Steller's duck resort, 



164. 

 Skag, boat for duck-shooting, 52. 

 Smew [mergus albellus"] 199. 

 Snipe — 



Diagnosis of family, 573. 



Dowitcher, 349. 



European, 341. 



Great, 346. , 



Red-bellied, 352. 



Red-breasted, 348. 



Wilson's snipe, see that title. 

 Snow goose — 



Greater, 223. 



Lesser, 219. 



Pacific coast, 541, 543. 



Ross's, 227. 

 Snowy plover [agialilis nivosa~\ 473. 

 Solitary sandpiper [helodromas soli- 



tarius] 416. 

 Solitary sandpiper, western, 419. 

 Somateria dresseri, American eider, 



168. 

 Somateria mollissima borealis, north- 

 ern eider, 166. 

 Somateria spectabilis, king eider, 

 172. 



Somateria v-nigra, Pacific eider, 

 170. 



Sora, Carolina rail, 285. 



South America — 



Steamer-duck, species of sea- 

 duck, 120. 

 Swan, peculiar method of catch- 

 ing, 260. 



Spatula clypeata, shoveller, 105-109. 



Spectacled eider [arctonetta fischeri\ 

 165. 



Spoon-bill [eurynorhynchus pyg- 

 m/zus~\ 387. 

 Pacific coast, 517. 



Spotted crake [porzana porzand] 

 284. 



Spotted sandpiper [actitis macu- 

 larid] 432. 



Sprigtail, name for pintail duck, 521. 



Spring shooting, abolition necessary, 

 65-70. 



Squatarola saualarola, black-bellied 

 plover, 456. 



Steamer-duck — 



American merganser, 193. 

 Sea-duck species, I20. - 



Sleganopus tricolor, Wilson's phala- 

 rope, 327. 



Stejneger, Dr., manner of catching 

 rail in Mauritius, 1675, 



273- 

 Steller's duck [eniconetta stelleri\ 



162. 

 Stilt sandpiper [micropcelama himan- 



topus~\ 355. 

 Stilts [recurvirostridai\ — 

 Black-necked, 333. 

 Characteristics of family, 330. 

 Diagnosis of family, 573. 

 Stint, long-toed, 380. 

 Stubble fields, goose-shooting, 209. 

 Surf bird [aphriza virgata] 481. 



Diagnosis of family, 578. 

 Surf scoter [oidemia perspicillatd] 

 182. 



