Index 
Disposition and temperament, lo, 14 
Distribution of, 2 
Diving, 3 
Drake loses plumage and becomes shy, 13, 18 
Drake's conduct to mate, 8 
Eyesight, 14 
Feeding-time, 4, 15, 16 
Flight, 14 
Flocks, 16 
Intelligence and observation of females, 1 1 
Liable to attacks of Falcons, 14 
Manoeuvre to escape Falcons, 15 
Monogamous, 8 
Mother protecting young from rain, 10 ; from 
Crow, 12 
Nests, 7 
Pairing, 4 
Period of incubation, 8 . 
Polj^andry among, 8, 63 
Popular with all classes, i 
Plumage of adult drake, changes of, 13, 17, 18, seqq. 
Eclipse plumage, 13, 18 
Gradual blending of tints, 5 1 
Spring plumage, 17, 22 
Stage I., 19; Stage II., 20; Stage III., 21 
Tail, 22, 23 
Winter plumage, 22 ; markings on, 23 
Plumage of adult female, 17,27 
Moulting, 28 
Plumage of immature female, 26 
Plumage of young drake, 24 
Changes in, 25 
Reared artificially, 17 
Shoots, 17 
' Treading ' for worms, 4 
Why migratory, 2 
Winter flocks formed, 13 
Young catch their own food, 8 
Young oust old birds, 13 
{See also Wild Duck) 
Malloch, P. D., on Carrion Crow on Loch Leven, 12 
Mandarins breeding : trick of the trade, 34 
Melbury, Canada Geese at, 34 
Monymusk, wild Mallard at, 16 
Moray Firth, Mallard on, 16 
Moy, Duck shoots at, 17 
Miiller, H., on Wigeon in Faroe Islands, 39 
Murray, Captain, adventure in bog-shooting, 65 
Netherby, Duck shoots at, 17 
Noble, Heatley : 
On Pintails' eggs, 98 
On Pintails' nests on Castle Island, 94 
Shoots Gadwall near Thetford, 36 
Takes nest and eggs of Teal near Seville, 79 «. 
Takes Pintail's nest near Seville, 92 
Norfolk, Gadwall in, 30 
Orkneys, Wigeon in, 41 
Outer Hebrides : 
Shoveler in, 59 
Wigeon in, 41 
Payne-Gallwey, Sir R., on : 
Breeding of Wigeon, 42 
Speed of Teal's flight, 82 n. 
Peregrine 'stooping' at Ducks, 15 
Pinkfoots at Woburn Abbey, 5 
Pintail {Dafila acuta, Linnaeus), 92 
At Woburn Abbey, 5 
Call, 6, 97 
Courtship, 97 
Diet, 95, 96 
Distribution, 92 
Eggs, 98 
Feeds in water, 96 
Flight, 97 
Flocks in America, 96 
Flocks in Great Britain, 93 
Habits, 95, 96 
Hybrids, 98 
In Iceland, 38 
Nest, 97 
Plumage, mature, 48 
Plumage of adult female, 10 1 
Plumage of adult male, 99 
Plumage of young, 100 
Plovers ' treading ' for worms, 4 
Pochards : 
Breeding, 34 
Nests, 7 
{See also Red-crested Pochard) 
Popham : 
Finds Garganey in Siberia, 71 
On shooting Wigeon in Holland, 43 
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