INDEX. 
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Puff-backed Shrike; i. 201. 
Puffin and Raven ; i. 225. 
— or Sea-Parrot; ii. 248. 
■ — — - how caught ; ii. 248. 
Quails; ii. 109. 
Rails; ii. 129. 
Rain, why Swallows fly low during ; ii. 50, 
Rapacious birds ; i. 112. 
Rapidity of flight ; i. 88, 90. 
Raven, notices of the ; i. 220, 226, 
— — • — and Puffin ; i. 225. 
Razor-bill chased by a Hawk ; ii. 251. 
Rearing Pheasants; ii. 97. 
Redbreast builds in a dining-room curtain ; ii. 
- — — ■ in a school-house ; ii. 33. 
— — — in a church ; ii. 34. 
Red-legged Crow ; i. 247. 
Redpole and Goldfinch; ii. 10. 
Redstart’s nest in the hinge of a door ; ii. 30. 
Ring- Dotterel; ii. 152. 
Rooks; i. 231. 
Rookeries; i. 245. 
Ropes of hide used in St. Kilda; ii. 261. 
Sacred Ibis; ii. 166. 
Sandpipers on the sea-shore ; ii. 151. 
Screamer, Horned, Palamadea; ii. 128. 
Sea-birds feeding on fish ; ii. 211. 
found far out at sea ; i. 94. 
Swallow, or Tern ; ii. 223. 
Sitta Europea, Nuthatch; ii. 68. 
Sheldrake builds in rabbit-holes ; ii. 193. 
Shoveller Duck’s bill ; i. 34. 
— of New Holland; i. 35. 
Shrike, or Butcher-bird ; i. 189. 
used for hawking; i. 199. 
Skeleton of a bird ; i. 29, 42. 
