INDEX. 



849 



Nail of bill 102 



Nails of toes 132 



Names, scientific 73 



Nape Dt) 



Nares 104, 178, 210 



Narrow-fronted woodpecker 490 



Nasal 



bones 165 



fossa 104 



gland 178 



scale 105 



turbinal 17.'5 

 Nashville warbler 294 

 Natatorial foot 129, 131 

 Natural 



affinities 72 



selection 6G 

 Nauclerus 526 

 Neck 92, 96 

 Neochloe 330 

 Neocorys 286 



spraguii 286 

 Neophron percnopterus 519 

 Nephcecetes 457 



niger borealis 457 

 Nerve-tissue 174 

 Nervous system 174 

 Nesonettaaucklandica 699 

 Nestor productus 65 

 Nests and eggs, collecting 50 

 Nests, plea for study of 54 

 Netting birds 4 

 Nettium 695 

 Neural 



arch 135 



spines 137 

 Neurapophyses 137 

 Neurology 174 

 Neuramreba 



Candida 174 



cinerea 174 

 Nevada sage sparrow 376 

 New york water thrush 309 

 Nictitating membrane 179, 180 

 Nidification 227 

 Night heron 



black-crowned 662 



vel low-crowned 663 

 Nigtit herons 662, 663 

 Night-courser, white-throated 450 

 Night-coursers 449 

 Night-hawk 



Cuban 454 



texan 454 



western 454 

 Night-hawks 453 

 Nightingale, Virginian 393 

 Night-jar 452 

 Night-jars 448 



american 450 

 Nipper-nosed murrelets 811 

 Nocturnal birds of prey 498 

 Noddies 771 

 Noddy tern 771 

 Nomenclature 78 



binomial 79 



rules of 80 



trinomial 80 

 Nomonyx 715 



dominica 715 

 Non-nu'li)dious passeres 427 

 Noiii)areil ;il)l 



westcM-n 391 

 Nitotka humming-bird 462 

 North american birds 



classitication of 234 



North american birds 



systematic synopsis of 237 

 Northern 



l)lack cloud swift 457 



brown crane 667 



phalarope 613 



sharp-tailed grouse 581 



shrike 337 

 Northwest tish crow 417 

 Nostrils 104 

 Notajum 94 

 Notiocor5's 285 

 Notochord 151 

 Notornis 143 

 Nucha 96 

 Nnchal 



bone 725 



region 96 



woodpecker 486 

 Nuclfraga carvocatactes 418 

 Number 



of ])halanges 127 



of toes 126 

 Numbering of toes 127 

 Numenius 618, 643 



arquatus 641 



borealis 646 



hudsonicus 645 



longirostris 645 



pha?opus 645 



taitensis 646 

 Numida meleagris 574 

 Numididifi 574 

 Nutcracker 



american 417 



brown-headed 271 

 Nuthatch 



Canadian 271 



Carolina 270 



european 270 



pj'gmy 271 



red-bellied 271 



slender-billed 271 



white-bellied 270 

 Nuthatches 269 



tvpical 270 

 Nuttall's 



poorwill 453 



woodpecker 482 

 Nyctala 512 



acadica 513 



albifrons 513 



richardsoni 512 



tengnialmi 512 

 Nyctea510 



scandiaca 510 

 Nycterodius 663 



violaceus 663 

 Nyctiardea 662 



grisea nievia 662 

 Nyctibiinaj 448 

 Nyctidronius 449 



albicollis 450 



Oak-woods sparrow 373 

 Obliquus 



inferior 181 



superior 181 

 Observations, record of 21 

 ()bturator foramen 149 

 Occipital 



bone 156 



condvles 156 



stvle'725 

 Occiput 97 

 Oeeanites 782 



54 



Oeeanites oceanicus 782 

 Oceanodroma 782 



furcata 782 



hornbyi 782 

 Oculi-motor nerve 177 

 Ocydromimu 670 

 OcVpliaps 564 

 Odontoglossx 677 

 Odontoid process 139 

 Odontolciu 63, 238. 821 

 ()<ioiitophorinai 588 

 Odontophorus 588 

 Odontornithes 821 

 Odontotormaj 63, 237, 821 

 (Edemia713 



aniericana 713 



fusca 714 



pcrspicillata 714 



trowbridgii 715 



velvetina 714 

 (EdicnemiuK 597 

 CEsophagus 211 

 (Estrelata 779 



bulweri 780 



fisheri 780 



gularis 780 



hasilata 779 

 Oil-gland 86 

 Old-lield lark 406 

 Old-squaw 706 

 Old-wife 706 

 Old world 



partridges 594 



quail 594 



vultures 519 

 Olecranon 107 

 Olfaction 178 

 Olfactorj' 



foramen 160 



lobes 175 



nerves 176 

 Olivaceous flycatchers 440 

 Olive warbler 296 

 Olive-backed thrush 248 

 Olive-black towhee 396 

 Olive-sided flycatcher 438 

 Olor 682 

 Omos 106 

 Onychotes 552 



gruberi 553 

 Ontogeny 71 

 Oology 



described 215 



study of 50 

 Oiiphoron masculimim 218 

 Opetiorhynchus 205 

 Ophthalmic nerve 177 

 Opisthoccelous vertebra; 138 

 Opisthocomi 671 

 Opisthocomus cristatus 143, 571 

 Opisthotic bone 157, 187 

 Oporornis 309 



agilis 309 



formosa 310 

 Optic 



foramina 159 



lobes 175, 176 



nerves 176, 184 



thalami 175 

 Orange-crowned warbler 295 

 Orbicularis oculi 180 

 Orbit of eve 97, 179 

 Orbital " 



process of quadrate 162 



region 97 

 Orbito-nasal septum 160 



