INDEX. 
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Feeding-box for Pheasants; ii. 98. 
Finches, family of; ii. 9. 
Flamingo, or Phoenicopterus ; ii. 145. 
. singularity of its bill; ii. 146. 
numerous on the Coast of Africa; ii. 149. 
Flight, difficulties connected with; i. 3. 
of birds; i. 84, 92. 
Fly-catchers; i. 208. 
Food consumed by small birds; ii. 26. 
Fowl, singular contents of the stomach of a; i. 60. 
Frigate-Bird lives almost on wing ; i. 96. 
Frost favourable to insects ; i. 243. 
Frozen, birds occasionally; i. 164. 
Gallinaceous, Poultry; ii. 84. 
Gallinula, Water-Hen; ii. 119. 
Gannet, use of its horny mask ; i. 64. 
• — nests; ii. 219. 
Gastric juice; i. 55. 
Geese, rearing of, profitable; ii. 170. 
-management of them in Lincolnshire; ii. 171. 
sacred among the ancients ; ii. 172. 
— instances of attachment in ; ii. 173. 
various anecdotes of; ii. 178. 
— -Barnacle, or Tree; ii. 182. 
Gigantic Crane, or Hurgila; ii. 140. 
Gizzard, functions of the; i. 58, 60. 
Goat-Sucker, bill of the; i. 36. 
Goldfinches, anecdote of; ii. 10. 
— sagacity of; ii. 11. 
sociability of; ii. 13. 
Grackles; i. 212. 
Grebe, crested; ii. 245. 
shot at Adlington, Cheshire ; ii. 246. 
Guillemots; ii. 247. 
Gulls feeding on herrings ; ii. 227. 
■ anecdote of a pair ; ii. 229. 
Gullet; i. 54. 
