INDEX, 
445 
Ptarmigan, its mode of escaping birds 
of prey, 149 
Puff-backed Shrike, 166 
Puffin and Raven, 184 
or Sea-Parrot 423 
how caught, 423 
Purres, 334 
Quails, 296 
Rails, 313 
Rain, why Swallows fly low during, 
249 
Rapacious birds, 93 
Rapidity of flight, 73 
Raven, notices of the, 179 
tame, 185 
— tame, in a wild state, 189 
— and Jackdaws, 180 
and Puffin, 184 
attachment to a dog, 187, 
357 
Razor-bill, 423 
chased by a Hawk, 425 
Rearing Pheasants, 286 
Redbreast builds in a dining-room 
curtain, 235 
in a school -house, 
235 
— — in a church, 236 
frequenting some particu- 
lar place, 237 
Red-legged Crow, 204, 403 
Redpoll and Goldfinch, 218 
Redstart’s nest in the hinge of a door, 
234 
Redwing, 167 
Ring-Dotterell, 334 
Rooks, 189 
Rookeries, 201 
occasional desertion of, 201 
• — — contentions in, 203 
Ropes of hide used in St. Kilda, 435 
Sacred Ibis, 346 
Sandpipers on the sea-shore, 334 
Screamer, Horned, Palamadea, 312 
Sea-birds, feeding on fish, 386 
— found far out at sea, 78, 418 
found inland, 418 
trade in, 433 
• Swallow, or Tern, 397 
Senses, acuteness of the, in birds of 
prey, 115 
Sitta Europaea, Nuthatch, 263 
Sheldrake builds in rabbit-holes, 375 
Shoveller Duck’s bill, 30 
— of New Holland, 30 
Shrike, or Butcher-bird, 27, 158 
used for Hawking, 164 
Skeleton of a bird, 26, 35 
Skimmer (Rhynchops), 396 
Snake-eater, Yulturserpentarius, 120 
Snipe’s attachment to place, 339 
mode of feeding, 28 
Snowy Owl, habits of the, 149 
Solan Goose, 53, 393 
Song in birds pleasurable, 62 
South Stack, punctual return of sea- 
birds to the, 91, 404 
Lighthouse, birds killed 
by flying against, 344 
Razor-bills and Guille- 
mots at the, 424 
Sparrow, boldness of, 224 
sociability of, 225 
affection for their young, 
227 
— singular death of a, 228 
nest in a church, 237 
Sparrow-Hawk, mode of catching, 136 
dwelling with Pi- 
geons, 141 
Spiders, height to which they ascend 
in the air, 249 
Spoon-bill, shot at Holyhead, 330 
— • ’s beak, 34 
St. Kilda, bird-catchers of, 434 
Stanley Crest explained, 99 
Starlings, habits of, 212 
Stomach, Heron’s, 316 
Stork, 318 
kills its faithless mate, 332 
Strength of the Condor, 118 
— birds and bones, 34 
Swallow’s bill, 31 
singular nest, 89 
— — occasionally detained, 91 
different species, 241 
— — if ever found dormant, 
242 
migration of, 247 
quantity of insects eat by, 
248 
