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INDEX 
Pain, effect of on animals, 227 
Pairing for life, ducks, 50 
Pallid harrier, 140, 293, 360, 434 
Palm-swift, 109, 254 
Pandion halidetus , 376 
Pangolin, 334 
Papyrus, 55, 135, 136, 179, 242, 258, 
260, 261 
Parkinsonia , 303 
Parrots, 61, 324 
Partridge, Cholmley’s rock-, 347, 349, 
372 , 380 
Parus leucomelas , 317 
Pearl-spotted barbet, 384 
owlet, 324 
Pearson, Sydney J , 246, 405, 410 
Pelec anus onocratulus , 114 ; rufescens, 
114 
Pelicans, 43, 114, 131, 138, 234, 262, 
397 , 429 
diving from the wing, 234 
mode of fishing, 234 
Penduline tit, 255 
Perceptions of animals, 363 
Perch, Nile, 138, 225 
Peregrine falcon, 109, no, 124, 320 
Petherick, John, 160, 193, 231 
Phaeton e the reus, 391 
Pied crows, 140, 256 
Pigeons, guinea, 109 
Pigmy woodpecker, 384 
Pike, Mr Arnold, 204 
Pintail, 40, 43, 50, 309, 315 
Pipit, brown rock-, 380 
red-throated, 293, 304 
tawny, 384 
tree-, 304 
Pistia stratiotes , 203, 257 
Plants, armed, 3 
Platalea leucorodia , 397 
Plotus, 58, 113 
Plover, Egyptian, 43, 292 
Kentish, 113, 390 
ringed, 113, 292, 390 
spur-wing, 43, 61, 113, 114, 115, 139, 
2 93 < 
spur-wing, white-headed, 293 
Plumage, dimorphic, 317, 327 
Pochards, 51, 315 
Pocock, Mr R. L., 343 
Podiceps, 253 
Polar origin of life, 48 
Population, of Sudan, 20, 391, 392, 399 
rapid increase in, 214 
Porcupine, 253, 322 
Porphyrio alleni, 266 
an unknown, 226, 266 
Port Sudan, 20, 391, 392, 399 
Possibilities of Sudan, 259, 274, 312 
Pratincoles, 239, 255 
Prickly pear, 397 
Prinia, 118 
Prionops, 124 
Pririt flycatchers, 118, 255 
Problem of food (Nile wildfowl), 45 
(grain-eating finches), 313 
Protopterus cethiopicus, 140 
Pterocles exustus, 398 
lichtensteini, 398 
quadricinctus, 118, 120, 250 
Punitive expeditions, 213, 281 
Purple-winged coursers, 255 
Pycnonotus arsinoe, 304, 383 
tricolor, 255 
Pyromelanafranciscana, 284, 313 
Pyrrhulauda, 27, 255, 360, 395, 433 
Pytelia, 285, 320, 324 
Pythons, water-, 268 
Quail, button-, 317 
Quelea cethiopica, 313 
Rails, 58, 64, 266 
Range of species, 10 
Rat, cane-, 63 
Rat-snakes, 122 
Rat, striped, 252, 322 
Ratel, 253, 322 
Rats and mice, 253, 323 
Raven, broad-winged, 124, 380 
brown-necked, 359 
Red-naped merlin, 255 
Red-hot pokers, 350, 375 
Redshank, 390 ; spotted, 293, 297 
Redstart, 255, 304, 348 
Reedbuck, 91, 132, 133, 180, 208, 282, 
335 
Chanler’s, 338 
