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INDEX. 
Migration, queries respecting, 82, 287 
Mocking-Bird, 58 
Muscular power of the wing of a 
bird, 70, 487 
Music attracts Nightingales, 239 
Narrow-beaked, Pressirostral, 305 
Nest, Blackbird’s, by a Rabbit’s seat, 
170 
Eagle’s, 104 
— — other birds build in Eagle's, 
109 
«— — curious, of a Thrush, 167 
— — rapidity of building, 219 
— — curious one of African Finches, 
219 
of Sparrows and Redbreast, 
224, 23.5 
of Titmouse, singular place for 
one, 232 
— — of a Redstart, 234 
Swallow’s, in a lamp, 250 
in a bell, 250 
not always of mud, .2 5 3 
eatable, 253 
— — Pigeons, 281 
Ostrich, 300 
Water-Hen, 305, 308 
- — — - Solan Goose, 393 
— — Albatross, 412, 431 
• same frequented by same birds, 
season after season, 250 
Night, birds sing during, 240 
Nightingales, migration of, 230 
— — - tame, 84 
removal of eggs by, 341 
Nuthatch, Sitta Europsea, 263 
Oil on feathers, use of, 68 
Oriole, Golden, 211 
Ostrich, substances found in the 
stomach of one, 45 
affectionate disposition of the, 
300 
• modes of catching, 301 
Oxen destroyed by Eagles, 106 
Owls, particulars respecting, 145 
• remove their young, 341 
Oyster- Catchers, 314 
Palamadea cornuta, or Horned 
Screamer, 313 
Palmipedes, web-footed, 349, 383 
Park, Mungo, anecdote of, 1 
Parrots, 275 
beak described, 27 
Parroquets, 275 
Partridge and Turkey associate, 291 
tame, 293 
in North America, 294 
how taken in the East, 
296 
Paradise, Bird of, 177 
Passerine order, 211 
Peacocks formerly prized as dainties, 
289 
Pelican’s beak, 33 
traditions of, 383 
— and Cormorant, fishing in 
partnership, 386 
Penguin, 429 
stones, swallowed by, 50 
selection for breeding- 
place, 431 
Petrel, 82, 416 
used .as a candle, 416 
Stormy, sailors’ superstition 
of, 4L7 
— found inland, 426 
Sooty, 426 
Pheasant attacks a lady, 284 
— directions for rearing them, 
286 
Pigeons living peaceably with a 
Hawk, 141 
Carrier, 75, 279 
— Passenger, 276 
■ — — — mode of catching in the 
Pyrenees, 280 
Wood, 281 
’s nest by a fitter of kittens, 
282 
Platypus, Duck-billed, 30 
Ptiloris Paradiscus, plumage of, 64 
Plover, Stilted, 40 
• Egyptian, anecdote of the, 
337 
Plumage of Birds considered, 64, 66 
— — , change of colour, 68 
Pouch of the Bustard, 299 
— * — — Emu, 302 
Hurgila, use of, 325 
Poultry tribe, 276 
Pressirostral, or Narrow-beaked, 305 
