XXXIV 
GENERAL INDEX. 
Poynting, F., ‘ Eggs of British Birds,’ 
noticed 1896, 278 ; 1897, 280 . 
Praeger, R. L., notes on an expedition 
to Rockall Islam!, noticed 1898, 
453 . 
Prazak, J. P., on the birds of Bohemia, 
noticed 1895, 157 , 158 ; papers on 
the Paridse, noticed 1896, 150 ; on a 
new bird from the Yangt-se, noticed 
1898,622. 
Prentis, W., ‘ Notes on the Birds of 
Rainham,’ noticed 1895, 287 . 
Pribilwf Islands, on the birds of the, 
noticed 1900, 390 . 
Prjevalski, N. M., on the birds collected 
in Central Asia by, noticed 1895, 
286 . 
Procniatidae, on the characters of the, 
noticed 1897, 125 . 
Protection of birds, in England, noticed 
1896, 271 ; on Fisheries and the, 
noticed 1896, 572 ; Report of the 
Society for the, noticed 1896, 578 ; 
1900, 536 ; and nesting-boxes, noticed 
1 > 97, 619 ; on the Protection Acts, 
1880 - 96 , Wild Birds, noticed 1898, 
167 . 
Protective coloration, experiments on, 
1897, 287 . 
Psittacella, on the genus, 1897, 58 . 
Pterocles, catalogue of the, in the Derby 
Museum, noticed 1900, 549 . 
Pterylography, of the Tinamiformes, 
1895, 1 ; of the Hoatzin, 1895, 845 ; 
of some American Goatsuckers and 
Owls, noticed 1895, 491 . 
Pterylosis, of the Owls, noticed 1899, 
325 ; of some Embryos and Nestlings 
of Centropus sinensis, 1900, 654 . 
‘ Ptilonorhynchidae,’ Sharpe's ‘ Mono¬ 
graph of the,’noticed 1895,403; 1896, 
419 ; 1897,285; 1898,171; 1899,148. 
Ptilonorhynchinae, on the Australian, 
noticed 1899, 318 . 
Pueblo Viejo, on birds from, noticed 
1899, 451 . 
Pyenonotus, on the genus, and its allies, 
noticed 1897, 121. 
Pycraft, W. P., contribution to the 
Pterylography of the Tinamiformes, 
1895, 1; letter on material recei\ed 
for studying Pterylography in birds, 
1895, 297 , on the Pterylography of 
the Hoatzin, 1895, 345 ; letter on 
errors in his paper on the Pterylo¬ 
graphy of the Tinamous, 1895, 507 ; 
on the wing of Archaeopteryx, noticed 
1896, 578 ; exhibition of skulls of 
some of the Steganopodes, 1898, 294 ; 
on the avian ‘ mesopterygoid ’ of W. 
K. Parker, 1898, 612 ; on the Gular 
Pouch of the Great Bustard, noticed 
1899, 146 ; on the Morphology of 
the Owls, noticed 1899, 325 ; on the 
presence of a heel-pad in Cyanops 
asiatica, 1899 ,440 ; paper on aquinto- 
cubitalisin, noticed 1899, 478 ; on 
his investigations in the Morphology 
of the Ratitae, 1900, 675 ; ‘The 
Story of Bird-life,’ noticed 1900, 
687 . 
Pyrenees (Central), notes on the birds 
of the, 1895, 64 ; further notes on 
the birds of the, 1897, 64 . 
Pyrrhura, on some additional species 
of, 1900,667. 
Queensland, a trip to North, noticed 
1895, 154 ; on some birds’eggs and 
nests from Bloomfield, noticed 1895, 
155 ; on some new eggs from the 
Bloomfield River District, 1896, 312 ; 
on birds’ eggs from, 1897, 392 ; 
exhibition of photographs of eggs 
and nests of the birds of, 1897, 452 ; 
ascent of Mt. Peter Botte in North, 
noticed 1897, 618 ; on birds and 
eggs collected at Cape York, 1898, 
51 ; a trip to the Bloomfield River 
district, noticed 1898, 165 ; exhibi¬ 
tion of some birds’ nests and eggs 
from North, 1899, 124 ; on birds 
from North, noticed 1900, 558 , 617 . 
Quelch, J. J., on migratory birds in 
British Guiana, noticed 1897, 470 . 
Quintocubitalism, note on, 1899, 477 . 
Radde, G., on the Museum of Tiflis, 
noticed 1895, 158 ; ‘Museum Cau- 
casicum,’ noticed 1900, 392 ; list of 
his travels and publications, 1900, 
401 . 
Rails, on the osteology of certain, 
noticed 1895, 403 . 
Rainham, notes on the birds of, noticed 
1895, 287 . 
Rajputana, on the birds of Western, 
noticed 1900, 676 . 
Rake, B., on the breeding of the Night¬ 
jar, noticed 1895, 288 . 
Rallinae of the Old World, noticed 
1895, ^ 62 . 
Ramesvaram Island, account of, noticed 
1895, 501 . 
Ramsay, E. P., and North, A. J., cata¬ 
logue of the Accipitres and Striges 
in the Australian Museum, noticed 
1899, 146 . 
‘ Ratiometer,’ exhibition of and remarks 
on the, 1900, 377 . 
