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INDEX TO TEXT 



English birds, Interest in, 391. 



Landscape impressions of, 393. 



Environment, Direct action of, on 

 birds' colors, 257. 

 mold for habits, 37. 



Equilibrium in flight maintained 

 automatically, 197. 



"Estrella," The, Cruise in, 158-162. 



Evaporation, Rapidity of, in Ari- 

 zona, 237. 



Evolution through insular environ- 

 ment, 37. 



Farallones, Birds of, 274. 



History of, 274. 



Picturesqueness 'of, 274, 275. 



Possibilities of bird study in, 

 284. 

 Fame Islands, England, Birds of, 



406-408. 

 Figgins. .1. D., on Western trip. 227. 

 Finch, Rosy Snow, in Canadian 



Rockies, 357, 361. 

 Finch, Seaside, on Cobb's Island, 63. 

 Finch, Snow, descending below tim- 

 berline in summer, 357. 



Distribution of, 357. 

 Finley, W. I^., Researches of, on 

 Klamath Lake, 294. 



Studies of California Condor 

 by, 265. 

 Fireplace, Signal at, 39. 

 Fisher, Walter K., on birds of Lay- 

 san. 216. 



See Price, W. W. 

 Flamingo, Appearance of, 170. 



City of, deserted, 158, 159. 



Colony of. Arrival at, 170. 



Comparative size of, 155. 



Destruction of, 191. 



Egg of, 173. 



Feeding habits of, 190. 



First one killed, 157. 



Flight of. 181. 



Food of. 155. 



Former distribution of, 155. 



in Bahamas, 154-191. 



incubating. 179, 180. 



Law protecting, 191. 



Nest building of, 159. 179. 



Nests of. 159, 179, 191. 



Notes of, 170. 



recognizing nest, 175. 



Flamingo, Return of, to rookery, 

 178, 179. 

 Rookery of, destroyed by rain, 



168. 

 Search for, 163. 

 Shyness of, 159. 

 straddling nest. Myth of, 156. 

 Young of. Appearance of, at 

 birth. 185. 



eating egg-shell, 189. 

 Feeding of, 187. 

 Growth of bill of, 189. 

 Return to nest by, 186. 

 Flicker, Manner of leaving nest of, 



27. 

 Flight of Terns, 197. 

 Flocking impulse, 88. 

 Florida. Bird-life of, 79. 



Defiance of bird law in, 82. 

 Destr\iction of birds in, 81, 82 

 Florida. Flamingo, 135. 

 Fort Capron, 113. 

 ]\Tecca for ornithologists. 79. 

 Ormond', 81. 

 Pelican Island, 36, 83. 

 St. .Tohn's River, Boobies seen 



at mouth of, 210. 

 St. Lucie. 113. 

 Flycatcher, Olive-sided, Call of, 



305. 

 Forest. Eastern extension of, in 

 western Nebraska, 229. 

 Growth in New. 403. 

 in California, 253, 256. 267. 

 in Wyoming. 239. 

 Westward extension of, in 

 eastern Nebraska, 229. 

 Fox, Absence of, on Gardiner's 



Island, 39. 

 Fuertes, Louis, At Pyramid T^ake 

 with, 376. 



discovers nests of Pipit and 



Ptarmigan. 364. 

 In Bfihamas with, 156. 

 In Saskatchewan with, 338. 

 In Sierras with, 310. 

 on trip to I^os Banos, 286. 

 Trip with, to Cuthbert Rook- 

 ery, 136. 



Gadwall, Mating flight of, 346. 

 Gannet. American colonies of, 36. 

 on Bass Rock. 408. 



