N Natural Selection, [53], [173], [174], [236], [240], [243] “Nature,” [242] Neophron ginginianus, [60] “Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds,” [90] Nettopus coromandelianus, [39] Newton, Sir Isaac, [139] Nightingales in India, [145]-9 Nightingale, Persian, [146], [147] Nightjar, [252], [253] —, common Indian, [253] —, Horsfield’s, [253] Nisus Accipiter, [70] Nulingadu, Moda, [125] Nuptial display, [187] Nycticorax griseus, [109], [252]

O Oates, [148], [231] Oenopopelia tranquebarica, [104], [173] Open-bill, [45] Orange minivet, [21] Oriole, [4], [103], [157], [217] Oriolus kundoo, [103] — melanocephalus, [4] Orthotomus sutorius, [7] Oscitans, Anastomus, [45] Osmosteros, [130] Otocompsa, [147] —, emeria, [4], [131]-44 Otogyps calvus, [60], [235] Owl, barn, [248] —, brown fish, [175] —, rock-horned, [248] —, scops, [247] Owlet, jungle, [247] —, spotted, [212], [246] Oyler, Mr. Philip, [188], [189]

P Paddy bird, [85], [106]-15, [212] Palaeornis cyanocephalus, [7] — torquatus, [181], [215] Pallas’s fishing eagle, [40] Palm swift, [213], [215] Pammon, Papilio, [241] Papilio demoleus, [241] — pammon, [241] Paradise flycatcher, [45], [46], [102], [157] Paradisi, Terpsiphone, [45], [102], [215] Parakeet, [7], [19], [181], [213] Parrot, green, [181], [215] Parva, Siphia, [5] Passer domesticus, [82], [178], [241] Pastor roseus, [158], [189] Peafowl, [19] Peregrine falcon, [164], [165] Pericrocotus flammeus, [21] — peregrinus, [21] Persian nightingale, [146], [147] Phasianidæ, [172] Pheasant, [19] Philippinus, Merops, [98] Philomela, Daulias, [146] Phil Robinson, [55] Phoenicopterus minor, [92] —, roseus, [91]-7 —, Crocopus, [127] Phylloscopus tristis, [7] Pied crested cuckoo, [48]-54 — kingfisher, [168] — myna, [85], [182] — wagtail, [162], [3], [213], [214] Pigeon, green, [19], [126]-30 —, Bengal, [127] Pigeon, southern, [127] Pintail duck, [161] Piping crow, [232] Pipit, [6] Pitta, [19], [216] Pitta brachyura, [19] Platalea leucorodia, [44] Ploceus baya, [180] Plotus melanogaster, [14]-8 Pochard, [161] Poecilorhyncha, Anas, [40], [64] Polar regions, birds of, [42] Pond heron, [106] Pondicerianus, Tephridornis, [214] Porphyrio, [19] Poulton, Professor, [129], [240], [242], [243] Pratincola maura, [182] Pratincole, [204]-10 Protective mimicry, [10], [239], [243] Pseudogyps bengalensis, [6], [60], [235] Purple-rumped sunbird, [212], [218]-24 Purple sunbird, [218]-24

Q Quail, common, [159]

R Radiatum, Glaucidium, [247] Raj Hans, [97] Rat bird, [65] Raven, [165], [231], [232], [234] Ray Lankester, Sir E., [129] Recurvirostra avocetta, [44] Redstart, [211] —, Indian, [4], [161], [162], [217] Red turtle-dove, [104], [172]-7 Red-vented bulbul, [156], [163], [212] Red-wattled lapwing, [128], [252] Regulus Aesalon, [116], [117], [164] Rhipidura albifrontata, [4], [214] Ring dove, [174] Robin, black-backed, [63] —, brown-backed, [8], [63] —, Indian, [61]-68, [162], [212], [214] Robinson, Phil, [55], [162], [174] Rock-horned owl, [248] Roller, [19], [119], [182], [185], [216] Rook, [25], [166], [211], [231], [232] Rose-finch, [74]-9 Roseate hue, finch of, [74]-79 Roseus, Pastor, [158], [181] Rosy starling, [158], [181] Rudis ceryle, [168] Rufa, Dendrocitta, [236] Rufipennis, Centropus, [6] Rufiventris, Ruticilla, [4], [161] Rufulus, Anthus, [6] Ruticilla rufiventris, [4], [161]

S Sand martin, [211] Saras crane, [38], [197]-203 Sarcidiornis melanotus, [40] Sarcogrammus indicus, [128], [252] “Saturday Review,” [94] Saularis, Copsychus, [7], [9]-13 “School of the Woods,” [194] Scops giu, [247] Scops owl, [247] Seena, Sterna, [167] Selection, Natural, [53], [173], [174], [236], [240], [243] Selous, Mr. Edmund, [25], [78] Sena, Ilerda, [241] “Seven sisters,” [252] Sexual dimorphism, [172] Shah bulbul, [216] Shama, [11] Sharpii, Grus, [197] Shikra, [69]-73, [164] Shoveller, [161] Sinensis, Centropus, [82], [248] Siphia parva, [5] Skylark, [116] Snake, brown tree, [144] Snake-bird, [14]-8 Snipe, common, [161] —, jack, [161] Sparrow, [82], [211] Sparrow, yellow-throated, [105], [157], [216] Sparrow-hawk, [69], [70], [163], [164] “Species, The Making of,” [43] Sphenocercus, [130] Splendens, Corvus, [165], [225], [231] Spoonbill, [44] Spot-billed duck, [40], [63] Spotted dove, [120], [212] — owlet, [212], [246] Sprosser, [146] Squirrel, little striped, [72] Stanley, Bishop, [96], [97], [124], [232], [233] Starling, [159], [182], [211] —, rose-coloured, [19], [158], [181] —, rosy, [19], [158], [181] Steppe eagle, [163] Sterna melanogaster, [40], [206] — seena, [107] Stilt, [44] Stone chat, [211] Strix flammea, [248] Stuart Baker, [50], [91] Sturnopastor, contra, [85] Sunbird, [3], [19], [99], [212], [218]-24 —, Loten’s, [212], [218]-24 —, purple, [218]-24 —, purple-rumped, [212], [218]-24 Suratensis, Turtur, [120] Sutorius, Orthotomus, [7] Swala ladu, [151] Swallow, barn, [151] —, common, [150], [151], [205] —, wire-tailed, [149]-56 Swallow-plover, [204]-10 Swift, [153] —, palm, [213], [215] Swynnerton, Mr. C. F. M., [243], [244] Sykes’s warbler, [217]

T Tachornis batassiensis, [215] Tailor-bird, [7], [212] Tawny eagle, [163], [164] Taylor, Mr. Alfred, [28] Teal, [161] —, cotton, [39] —, whistling, [40] Tephrodornis pondicerianus, [214] Tern, [45], [167]-71, [204]-10 —, black-bellied, [49], [206] Terpsiphone paradisi, [45], [102], [215] Thamnobia, [61] — cambaiensis, [8], [63], [162] — fulicata, [63], [214] Thayer, Mr. A., [97], [188] Thereiceryx zeylonicus, [8] Thompson, Mr. R., [120] Thought, power of animals to express, [25]-30 —, transmission of, [26] Thrush, [211] —, missel, [211] Tickell, [247] Tickelli, Cyornis, [5] Tilyer, [158] Tinnunculus alaudarius, [164] Tiphia, Ægithina, [213] Titmice, [211] Tomtit, [211] Torquatus, Palaeornis, [181], [215] Torquilla, Iynx, [121] Tranquebarica, Œnopopilia, [104], [173] Tree-snake, brown, [144] Treron, [130] Trigonata, Hipsas, [144] Tristis, Acridotheres, [113] —, Phylloscopus, [7] Turtle-dove, [174] —, red, [104], [172], [177] Turtur suratensis, [120] Turumti, [117]-20, [164] Tuti, [76]

U Upupa indica, [83], [185]-96

V Varius, Hierococcyx, [51], [80], [100], [249] Verner, Col. Willoughby, [94] Virachola isocrates, [241] Viridis, Merops, [6], [98], [241] Visitors, winter, to the Punjab Plains, [157]-66 Vittatus, Lanius, [213] Voices of the Night, [246]-53 Vulture, [55]-60 —, black, [60], [235] —, domestic, [55] —, king, [60] —, Pondicherry, [60] —, scavenger, [55], [60] —, white-backed, [60], [235]

W Wagtail, [85] —, grey, [28], [162], [167] —, grey-headed, [217] —, pied, [162], [213], [214] —, water, [211] —, white, [162] Wallace, [20], [129] Wallaceian theory, [127], [173] Warbler, [7] —, Sykes’s, [217] —, willow, [7] Water-wagtail, [211] Watt, James, [139] Westell, Mr., [233] White, Gilbert, [149], [150], [151] —, Birds in, [42]-7 — ibis, [44] — wagtail, [162] — backed vulture, [60], [235] — breasted kingfisher, [212] — browed bulbul, [212] — eared bulbul, [163] — headed babbler, [212] — throated munia, [216] “Wild Life in a Southern County,” [211] Willow-warbler, [7] Winter visitors to the Punjab Plains, [157]-66 Wire-tailed swallow, [149]-56 Woodpecker, golden-backed, [8], [212] —, pied, [31]-6 Wood-pigeon, [211] Wood-shrike, [214] Wren, [211] Wryneck, [121]-25