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Index 
Diving ducks {continued) — 
Call of, i. I 
Characteristics of, i. i 
Dislike to draught, i, 21 
Contrasted with surface-feeders, i. i, 2 
Diet, i. I 
Diving, i. i 
Of young, i. 2 
Eggs, i. 2 
Feeding, i. i, 23 
Flesh, oily and rancid, i. 2 
Genera of, too many divisions in, i. 3, 4 note i 
Maturity, age of, considerable .variation in, i. 2 
Dixon, O, Murray, note on Common Scoters at Loughborough, 
ii- 54 
Dresser : 
Account of the abundance of Surf- Scoters in Bay of 
Fundy, ii. 80 
On the Golden-Eye nest in Scandinavian countries, ii. 94 
Dunbar, Captain Brander, account of Pochard on Loch 
Spynie, i. 25, 26 
Eastern White-Eye. See Pochard, Baer's 
Eider-Duck, Somateria mollissima (Linnaeus), ii. 5 et seqq. 
Albinos, ii. 29 
American form, ii. 2-3 
Birth date approximates to June i, ii. 22 
Breeding, ii. 5, 20, 21 
Breeding range, ii. 12, 13, 14 
Call, ii. 19, 20, 32 and note 
Characteristics, ii. 16, 25 
Colour of soft parts, ii. 2 note 2 
Commercial uses of down and skins, ii. 2'] et seqq. 
Courtship, i. 75 ; ii. 19, 20 
Variation in different localities, ii. 20 
Courtship of immatures, ii. 11, 20 
Detection of, at sea, ii. 25 
Diet, ii. 14, 15, 18 
In confinement, ii. 30, 31, 32 
Disposition, ii. 16, 19, 27 
Distinctive characters of the local races, ii. 2-4 
Distribution, ii. 14 
Distribution of the local races, ii. 2-4 
Diving, ii. 16, 17, 19, 24 
Down, ii. 27 
Commercial uses and value of, ii. 21, 27, 28 and note 
Farms for Eider-Ducks, ii. 28 
Methods of collection and cleaning, ii. 27, 28, 29 
Down in nest, ii. 6, 21, 22 
Easily scared from breeding grounds by shooting, ii. 24 
Eclipse, shyness in, ii. 23 
Eggs, ii. 5, 21, 22, 24 
Sought after for food in the far north, ii. 27 
Enemies of, ii. 26 
Farms for Eider-Ducks, ii. 28 
Feeding, ii. 15, 18, 19 
Feeding grounds, ii. 14, 15, 19 
T-Duck {continued) — 
Female partially assuming male plumage, example of, 
ii. 29 
Flesh unfit for table, ii. 25, 75 
Flight, i. I ; ii. 16 
Capacity for, in young, ii. 24 
Tenacity in keeping above water, ii. 16 
Flocking, ii. 24 
Habitat, ii. 13, 14, 15 
Habits, ii. 14 et seqq., 19, 31 
Gregarious, i. 76; ii. 14 
Migration rare and uncertain, ii. 14 
Watchfulness on shore, ii. 15 
Hybrids, ii. 29 
Immatures, flocking of, ii. 20, 24 
Points of distinction between juveniles of the two 
sexes, ii. n, 31 
In confinement, ii. 30, 31, 32, 152 
Incubation, ii. 6, 22, 30 
Families combined under care of one female after, 
ii. 24 
Neglect of food by nesting bird, ii. 31 
Local names, ii. 5, 13 
Local races, distribution of, ii. 2-4 
Maturity, age of, i. 2 ; ii. 6, 9, 10, 12, 20 note, 30 
Measurements, ii. 4, 9, 12 
Migration, ii. 14, 24, 25 
Nest, ii. 21, 27 
Plundered for eggs in far north, ii. 2 7 and note 
Nesting habits, ii. 22, 29, 31 
Nesting places, ii. 13, 14, 21, 28 
Ovary in immatures, ii. 12 
Pairing, ii. 20 
Pairing of immatures, ii. 6, 10, 11, 12, 20 and note 
Parasites, ii. 26, 27 
Plumage, ii. 6-12 J 
Female : ( 
Adult, ii. 12 
In down, ii. 11, 152 
Juvenile, ii. 11 
Stages in plumage of immatures, ii. 6, 11, 12 
Male : 
Adult, winter, ii. 9, 32 
Eclipse, ii. 9, 10, 32 
In down, ii. 7 
Juvenile, ii. 7, 10, 32 
Stages in plumage of immatures, ii. 7-9, 10 
Plumages, interesting series of, ii. 25 
Protection accorded to in breeding season for sake of 
the down, ii. 21, 24, 27 
Robbed of food by gulls, ii. 18 
Shooting, ii. 16, 23, 25, 26, 131, 132 
Best day for, ii. 26 
Wounded birds, ii. 16, 17 
Skins as quilts and shirts, ii. 29 
Swimming, ii. 16, 17 . 
Use of wings in, i. i ; ii. 16, 17, 31 
