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Kestrel, 118 

 Merlin, 127 

 Osprey, 131 



Peregrine, 117, 126, 127 

 Pigeon hawk, 39, 117 

 Red-shouldered, 10, 39 

 Red-tailed, 10, 39 

 Sharp-shinned, 9, 39, 119 

 Sparrow, 10, 11, 39, 117 

 Hawks 

 Descent upon rodent hordes, 



38 

 Food of, 38, 39 

 Value of in money, 49 

 Trained by Germans to cap- 

 ture homing pigeons, 103 

 Feathers used in millinery, 

 162 

 Heath hen, The slaughter of 

 the, 225 

 Former numbers, and their 



slaughter, 247 

 Survivors at Martha's vine- 

 yard, 248; partially de- 

 stroyed by fire, 293 

 Heron, as a destroyer of craw- 

 fish, 56 

 Himiboldt Valley, The rodent 

 plague of, 38 



Iceland, The eider-down indus- 

 try of, 189-91 

 Ichneumon-fly as a parasite, 28 

 Imprisonment for stealing a, 



falcon, 129 

 Incubator, used in hatching 



ostrich eggs, 178 

 Insects, The number of species 

 of, 11, 12 

 As food for birds, 11, 12, 22, 



32, 33 

 Their destruction by Nature, 



12 

 Parasitical, 12, 28, 29, 32 

 Rate of production, 27 

 Vegetable eating, 27, 28, 32 

 Predatory, 28 

 Iridescence in feathers, 158 



Italy 



Destruction of birds for 

 food in, 214 



The killing of birds on a 

 scientific basis, 216; meth- 

 ods employed, 216-7 



Game-laws of, 212, 234 



Jackdaws As talkers, 142 

 Jungle Fowl, The Red, 61 



Kestrel, A poor bird for fal- 

 conry, 118 

 Kingbird, 53 



Labrador duck, Its slaughter 

 for down along the Labra- 

 dor coast, 187 

 Its extinction, 188 

 Lacey, Act, 173; its enactment, 



267, 277 

 Landowner, Rights to game in 

 England, 261 

 Renting of shooting rights, 

 261 

 Laws. 



France, 214 



Norway, 217 



Sweden, 217 



England, 217, 260 



United States, 222, 227, 230, 



243, 250 

 Prohibiting the sale of game, 

 229 

 Laysan Island. The attack up- 

 on its albatross rookery, 

 166 

 Guano deposits on, 208 

 Corporation formed to take 

 eggs from, 222 

 Leghorn fowl. Origin of, 66 

 Lemmings, The migration of, 



37 

 Licenses issued for shooting, 

 231 

 Law first established, 267 

 How to obtain a license in 



New York State, 271 

 Laws concerning, 275 



