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The Natural History of British Ducks 
Rae, Dr., shoots Wigeon in Damsey Isle, 41 
Red-crested Pochard {Netta rufind) : 
Cross between Wigeon and, 48 
Moulting, 36 
Red-crested Whistling Ducks breeding, 34 
Rooks as thieves, 84 
Rothschild, Hon. Walter, possesses cross between 
Teal and Garganey, 74, 86 
Round Pond, Kensington Gardens, Wild Ducks on, 11 
Ruppell on Wigeon in Abyssinia, 38 
St. Quintin, W. H. : 
Breeds wild Geese, 34 
Establishes Wigeon, 39 
On Gadwalls' Nests, 32 
Rears cross between Wigeon and Red-crested 
Pochard, 48 
Saunders, Howard : 
Exhibits green-winged Teal, 89 
On American Wigeon in Great Britain, 55 
On distribution of Garganey, 71 
On distribution of Shoveler, 58 
On Wigeon in Borneo, 39 
Saxby, Dr. : 
Receives Wigeon eggs from Shetlands, 41 
Shoots Garganey in Hebrides, 72 
Scotland : 
Gadwall in, 30 
Shoveler in, 59 
Sea Ducks, diet, 3 
Selby takes Wigeon nest on Loch Laighal, 40 
Serpentine : 
Anecdote of Ducks on, 9 
Carrion Crows on, 12 
Severtzoff on Wigeon in Siberia, 39 
Sheldrakes : 
Appropriate nesting-grounds, 33 
At Woburn Abbey, 5 
Family parties, 1 1 
Like rabbit-holes for nesting, 33 
Shooting, close season, i 
Shoveler {Spatula clypeata, Linnaeus), 4, 58, seqg. 
At Woburn Abbey, 5 
Breeding, 34 
Catching beetle, 60 
Constantly in air, 14 
Courtship, 62 
Diet, 61 
Distribution, 58 
Flight, 64 
Flock on ' broad,' 61 
Habits, 59, 60, 64 
In Apostle Marsh, Glasgow, 65 
Male's regard for family, 64 
Nest and eggs, 7, 63 
Pairs in immature state of plumage, 46 
Plumage of adult male : 
Eclipse, 68 
Irregularity of change of, 48 - " 
Spring, 67 
Winter, 69 
Plumage of female, 69 
Plumage of young male, 67 
Polyandry among, 62 
' Rattle-wings,' 64 
Swimming round in circle, 60 
Smith, Cecil, breeding wild Geese, 34 
Stags (old) retreat while horns grow, 13 
Stoats destroy young Ducks, 1 2 
Teal {Nettion Crecca, Linnaeus), 79, seqq. 
As weather prophets, 81 
At Woburn Abbey, 5 — 
Call, 6, 82, 83 - 
Courtship, 82 
Diet, 44, 82 
Difficult to shoot, 81 
Distribution, 79 
Drake's care for young, 83 
Enemies of young, 84, 85 
Flocks, 80 
Habits, 81 
Hybrids, 86 
Migrate from bog to bog, 80 
Nest and eggs, 83 
Plumage of adult female, 88 
Plumage of adult male, 86 ; winter, 87 
Plumage of young male, 87 
Plumage, transition of, 48 ^ 
Shy of nesting, 33 
Speed of flight, 82 «. 
Young killed by Brown-headed Gulls, 85 
{See also Blue-winged Teal and American Green 
winged Teal) 
Thompson on Shoveler in Ireland, 59 
