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Index 
Netherby, experiments in rearing wild ducks at, ii. 136 
et seqq. See heading Rearing of ducks 
Species naturalised at Netherby, ii. 143 
Noble, Heatley : 
Note on Common Scoter breeding in Scotland, ii. 55 note 
Note on the absence of down in some nests of the 
Common Pochard, i. 25 
On breeding of the Tufted Duck, i. 60 
On the nest of the Goosander, ii. 95 
On Scaup, first nest found in Britain, i. 76 
Nomenclature, present confusion in, i. 4 note i ; ii. i 
Oates, W. Coape, comments on the experiments at Netherby, 
ii. 141 
On disease purulent ophthalmia, ii. 142 
Pairing of ducks, experiments in, ii, 140 et seqq. 
Payne-Gallwey, Sir Ralph, on Pochard in Ireland, i. 21 
Pearson, H. J. and C. E. : 
On nests of the Long-tail found in Iceland, i. 125 
On the nesting places of the Harlequin Duck in the 
Myvatn district, i. 139 
Pennant, description of Barrow's Golden-Eye by, i. 98 
Percy, Lord WilHam : 
Account of adult male Harlequin in possession of, i. 136 
and note 2 
Account of shooting ducks on Mr. Meynell's estate, 
ii. 129, 130 
Notes on three young Eiders reared by, ii. 152 
On courtship attitudes of the Smew, ii. 124 
On the down of the young Tufted Duck, i. 46 
Plumage : sympathetic changes in colour of developed 
feathers, i. 2 
Pochard, Baer's, Nyroca baeri (Radde), i. 42-44 
Breeding habits, i. 43 
Breeding range, i. 43 
Courtship, i. 44 
Egg, i. 42, 43 
Habits, i. 44 
Local name, i. 42 
Measurements, i. 43 
Migration range, i. 43, 44 
Plumage : 
Adult female, i. 43 
Adult male, i. 42 
Immature male, i. 42 
Variations in the female bird, i. 43 
Young in down, i. 42 
Pochard, Common, Nyroca ferina (Linnaeus), i. 14 et seqq. 
American fastidiousness in cooking, i. 28 
American form, i, 14, 16, 27-28 
Breeding, i. 17 
Breeding range, i. 17-20 
Call, i. 23, 24 
Of young, i. 25 
Capture, i. 26, 28 
Chesapeake Bay shooting ground for American Pochard, 
i. 27 
Pochard, Common {continued^ — 
Courtship, i. 23, 24, 75 
Diet, i. 23, 28 
Distribution, i. 17-21, 27-28 
Diving, i. 22 
Young as divers, i. 25 
Down in nest, i. 25 
Eggs, i. 14, 15, 24 
Enemies of, i. 25 
Feeding, i. 22, 23 . 
Flesh, delicacy of, i. 27, 28 
Flight, i. 22, 27 
Forms of, i. 14 
Habitat, i. 21 
Habits, \. 2 \ et seqq. 
Join with domesticated ducks, i. 22 
Hybrids, i. 13, 28, 29, 63 
In confinement, i. 23, 28 
Incubation, i. 15, 24, 25 
Large flocks in Scotland and Ireland, i, 20, 21 
Local names, i. 14 
Male in eclipse most difficult to find, i. 25 
Maturity, age of, i. 2, 15, 17 
Measurements, i. 16, 17 
Migration, i. 20, 26 
Moulting, i. 16 1 
Nest, i. 24 
Nesting habits, i. 24, 25 
Noise of birds rising, i. 27 
Parasites, i. 28 
Plumage : 
Adult female, i. 17 
Change during nesting season, i. 17 
Adult male, i. 15 
Eclipse, i. 16, 26 _ 
Immature female, i. 17 
Immature male, i. 15 \ 
Young in down, i. 15 
Preponderance of males, i. 22, 23 
Shooting, i. 26, 27; ii. 132 
On the Chesapeake shores, i. 27 
Tameness on small ponds, i. 22 
Weight, i. 16, 17 
Whistle, i. 24 
Windpipe of the male, i. 17 
Pochard, Red-crested, Nyroca rufina (Pallas), i. 4 et seqq. 
Breeding, i. 12, 13 
Breeding range, i. 6 
Call, i. II 
Courtship, i. II 
Diet, i, II - 
Distinguished from Common Pochard, i. 19 
Diving, i. 10 
Down in nest, i. 13 
Eggs,i. 5, 12, 13 
Feeding, i. 10, 11, 13 
Flesh, i. 12 
