INDEX 



291 



Raven's Hill and Barbarossa, 



163 

 Ravens, Odin's messengers, 159 

 Redbreast, Christian legends of, 



114 

 Redbreast covers corpses, 116 

 Redpoll, bringing fire, 274 

 Rhea, errors concerning, 55 

 Robin, American, singing, 282 

 Robin, European. See Red- 

 breast. 

 Roc (Rukh), Sinbad's discovery, 



Sacred birds explained, 16, 24 

 Sagehen, Paiute story of, 106 

 Salamander as a bird, 196 

 Scapegoats among birds, 25 

 Scarlet bird of Taoists, 207 

 Schamir, Solomonic legend, 249 

 Seal of United States, 36 

 Semiramis, story of, 128 

 Sentinel-birds, stories of, 254, 



256 

 Seven Whistlers, 13, 89 

 Shrike, errors regarding, 79 

 Shrove Tuesday customs, 123 

 Simurgh, Persian myth, 205 

 Smell, sense in birds, 75 

 Snow-owl blackens raven, 232 

 Souls brought by birds, 12 

 Souls carried away by birds, 13, 



139, 148 

 Sparrow in Christian legends, 



112 

 Speech by birds, 3, 10, 13 

 Stones possessed by birds, 95 

 Stork, as a migrant, 92 

 Stork, legends of, 112, 153 



Stymphalia, birds of, 192, 194 

 Swallow, Eskimo origin of, 238 

 Swallow in Christian legends, 



112 

 Swallow, omens from, 25, 213, 



218 

 Swallow restores blindness, 96 

 Swan, black (rara avis), 47 

 Swan, death song, 76 

 Swan, omens from, 213 

 Symplegades, legend of, 131 



Thibetan divination, 174 

 Thunder-birds described, 243- 



248, 281 

 Thunder Cape, name explained, 



245 

 Trochilus legend, 60 

 Trogon, or quetzal -bird, 39 

 Trumpeter, legends of, 107, 239 

 Tulare, legend of lake, 108 

 Turkey, Franklin's preference, 



37 

 Turkey, Indian legend of, 106 



Vulture, baldness explained, 227, 



236, 241 

 Vulture, omens from, 213 

 Vulture revered in Egypt, 151 

 Vultures, Persian, 207 

 Vulture, Turkey. See Buzzard. 



Wagtail, Ainu legend of, 103 

 War-eagle, American Indian, 



35 

 Weathercocks explained, 151 

 Weather prognostics by birds, 



217, 219, 282 



