INDEX 



315 



Production in U. S., 112-13 

 Pigment in feathers, 157 

 Pitch, A term in falconry, 124 

 Plant-lice destroyed, 33 

 Plucking of feathers 

 Ostrich plumes, 180-1 

 Breast feathers by female 



eider duck, 190 

 Of geese, 192 

 Plume hunters, Methods em- 

 ployed by, 161, 163-4; 166 

 Plumes 



Character in different birds, 



156, 162 

 Early use in Europe, 160 

 When, first worn by women, 



161 

 Ostrich, 179; their manufac- 

 ture, 182 

 Plymouth Rock, The result of 



several crosses, 64 

 Population of birds, 4, 5, 52, 



53' 

 Posting land, Its prose and 



cons, 295 

 Potato beetle destroyed, 33 

 Poultry 

 Production of in America, 68, 



73-4; in England, 69 

 Incubators used, 70 

 The rearing of, 70; squab- 

 broilers; 71; broilers, 72; 

 roasters, 72 

 The process of cramming, 73 

 Killing for the market, 73 

 Production of eggs, 74; in 



England, 77 

 Proper feeding, 75 

 Use of trap nests and arti- 

 ficial light, 75, 76 

 Consumption of eggs, in 



U. S., 76 

 Value of world's poultry, 77 

 Prairie chicken 

 Snot for the market, 229 

 Great slaughter of, 248 

 Effect upon cultivation, 249 

 Protection of, 250 



Quail 



Bob-white as a destroyer of 

 insects, 33, 35; of weeds, 

 34-5 



The marketing of, 229 



Slaughter of, 252 



They make ideal shooting for 

 the sportsman, 253 



Shooting seasons, 269 

 Quill pens, History and manu- 

 facture of, 193-4 



Rails, A number of termed 



game-birds, 253 

 Refuges for birds 



Type of land used, 291 

 How employed, 292-4 

 In Pennsylvania, 294 

 A campaign for, and its re- 

 sults, 296-7 

 Reptiles, Number of species 



of, 5 

 Rhea, Extinction threatened of, 



168 

 Rhinoceros-bird, 22, 47 

 Rhode Island Red, The origin 



of, 65 

 Robin, 46, 52, 236 



Killed for market, 228, 236 

 Most numerous native Ameri- 

 can bird, 52-3 

 Roccolo, An Italian method of 

 trapping birds, 216 

 Number of birds captured, 

 217 

 Roosevelt, Theodore, The Father 

 of conservation in the 

 U. S., 289 



Sanctuaries for birds (See 



Refuges ) 

 "Schoolmaster" canary, 137 

 Seed spread by birds, 16, 17 

 Sheep killed by parrots, 47-8 

 Shorebirds 



Easily lured by decoys, 145, 



244 

 Marketing of, 228 



