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Index 



Swans \_cygninm~\ — 



Age, long life of swans, 260. 



Black swan found in Australia, 

 260. 



Characteristics, 258-260. 



Currituck Bay decoy, 206, 208. 



Diagnosis of family, 571. 



Distinction from other birds of 

 family, 258. 



Mute swan, 259, 260. 



Pacific coast, 551. 



South American swan, 260. 



Trumpeter swan, 265. 



Whistling swan, see that title. 



Whooping swan, 267. 

 Symphemia setriipalmata, willet, 421. 

 Symphemia semipalmata inornata, 

 western willet, 424. 



Tampico, black-bellied tree-duck, 



1901, 254. 

 Tattler, wandering, 425. 

 Teal — 



Blue-winged, 99. 

 Cinnamon teal, see that title. 

 Green-winged teal, see that title. 

 Totanus flavipes, lesser yellowlegs, 



412. 

 Totanus melanoleucus, greater yel- 

 lowlegs, 407. 

 Totanus melanoleucus frazari, gray 



yellowlegs, 410. 

 Totanus nebularius, European 



greenshank, 405. 

 Totanus totanus, common redshank, 



415. 

 Tree-duck — 



Black-bellied, 253. 

 Fulvous tree-duck, 255, 514. 

 Relation to anserina, 217. 

 Tringa acuminata, sharp-tailed 



sandpiper, 368. 

 Tringa alpina, dunlin, 381. 

 Tringa alpina pacifica, red-backed 

 sandpiper, 382. 



Tringa bairdii, Baird's sandpiper, 



37°- 

 Tringa canutus, knot, 357. 

 Tringa cooperi, Cooper's sandpiper, 



37°- 

 Tringa damacensis, long-toed stint, 



38°- 



Tringa* ferruginea, curlew sand- 

 piper, 385. 



Tringa fuscicollis, white-rumped 

 sandpiper, 373. 



Tringa maculata, see Pectoral sand- 

 piper. 



Tringa maritima, purple sandpiper, 

 362. 



Tringa minutilla, least sandpiper, 



377- 



Tringa ptilocnemis, Pribilof sand- 

 piper, 367. 



Tringa ptilocnemis couesi, Aleutian 

 sandpiper, 365. 



Trumpeter swan \olor buccinator"} 

 265. 



Tryngites subruficollis, buff-breasted 

 sandpiper, 430. 



Turnstone \arenaria interpret] 

 482. 

 Diagnosis of family, 578. 



Turnstone, black, 487. 



Vanellus vanellus, lapwing, 452. 

 Velvet scoter [oidemia fusca\ 

 176. 

 Diet, Heligoland instance, 177. 

 Netting, 178. 

 Virginia rail \rallus virginianus~\ 

 281. 



Waders, Pacific coast, 557. 

 Wading the marshes, shore-bird 



shooting, 312. 

 Wandering tattler [heteractilis in- 



canus~\ 425. 

 Wat Green, duck-shooting on James 



River, 28. 



