314 



INDEX 



Short-eared, 39 

 Owls, Their descent upon rodent 

 plagues, 38 

 Their food, 39 



Palmer, Dr. T. S., Principles 

 of game-laws set forth by, 

 264 

 Work in conservation, 289 

 Parrots, 

 Kea parrots attacking sheep, 



47 

 Amazons as talkers, 140 

 Macaws as talkers, 140 

 Partridge 



Its speed of flight, 99 

 As quarry in falconry, 125 

 Used in training falcons, 123, 

 125 

 Pekin duck, 83 

 Pelican 



Possible use of in fishing, 



133 

 Production of guano by, 199 

 Rookeries on Lobos Islands, 



201 

 Life history of the, 201 

 Pennsylvania, State conser- 

 vation system excellent, 

 294 

 Penguin, 5, 7 



"People's Home Journal," Its 

 campaign for bird ref- 

 uges, 296 

 Peregine, Its distribution, 117; 



food, 126 

 Peru, The home of guano birds, 

 198 

 Wealthy because of nitrate 



and guano beds, 204-5 

 War with Chili, 205 

 Exhaustion of guano de- 

 posits, 208 

 Petrels, 5 

 Phalaropes, 5 

 Pheasant 

 Gives warning of Zeppelin 

 raidB, 143 



Shooting season and bag-limit 

 for in New York States, 

 269 

 Pigeon 



Difference between pigeon 



and dove, 87 

 Fruit pigeon, 16 

 Crowned pigeon hunted, 167 

 Mourning dove as a game- 

 bird, 237; the baiting of, 

 254 

 Pigeon, Homing 

 Speed of flight, 99 

 Development of homing in- 

 stinct, 100 

 Training of, 100-1 

 Use in Franco-Prussian War, 

 103; in World War, 104 

 Pigeon loft, 100, 111; in war, 



106 

 Pigeon milk. 111 

 Pigeon, passenger, 6, 8, 45 

 Vast flocks and their de- 

 struction, 226 

 Market value of, 226 

 Pigeon shoot in New Jersey, 



95 

 Pigeons, Domestic, 86 

 Historical, 86 

 Ancestry, 87 

 Breeds, 87, 88, 89 

 Fan-tail, 90 

 Runt, 91 

 Colors, 91 



Tumblers and rollers, 92-3 

 Shooting of, 93-5 

 Flying of, 96 

 Distances flown, 98 

 Record flights, 98 

 Homing birds, 100 

 Training of, 101 

 As messengers, 102 

 Use in war, 104-9 



Accustomed to gun-fire, 106-8 

 Trained to fly to red lights, 



108 

 Squab-raising, 110-12 



