INDEX. 



291 



Slender-billed cockatoo {continued) : 



Food, 155, 156 



Habitat, 155 



In freedom, 156 



Named by Temminck, 155 



Other names, 155 



Physical characteristics, 155 



Size, 155 

 Slender-billed parrakeets : 



Food, 31, 32 



Named by Vigors, 5 

 Small-billed parrakeets : 



Finsch's description of, 229 



Food, 229, 230 



Habitat, 229 



Hardiness, 230 - 



In freedom, 229 



Named by Vigors, 229 



Names of : 



Canary-winged, 234, 235 



Tovi, 231, 232 



Yello w-and-white-winged , 



236 

 (See also under respective 

 headings) 



Natural history, 229, 230 



Physical characteristics, 229 



Price, 230 



Talents, 229 

 Small cockatoo, 143 



Long-tailed parrots (see under 

 Parrakeets) 

 Small macaw : 



Buffon's description of, 194, 

 195 



Habitat, 194 



Named by Linne, 194 



Other names, 194 



Physical characteristics, 194 



Size, 194 



Talents, 194, 195 

 Smous-of Baardparkiet, 209 

 Snoring, 53 

 Socle of cage, 21, 23 

 Soldatenarara, 189 

 Solstitian parrakeet, 217 

 Sonnensittich, 217 

 Sonnenwendesittich, 217 

 Soyaux on Grey parrots, 31, 80, 87 

 Sparrowhawk, effect of, on spar- 



Sparrows, observations on, 2 

 Speakers, judging, at shows, 43 

 Species and varieties, disputed, 4 

 Spectacle parrot, 113 

 Speech acquired by few birds, 2 

 Capability of, 1 

 Of men compared with that of 

 animals, 3 

 Spittoon for drinking vessel, 23 

 Spix, birds named by : 



Blue-crowned conure, 215, 216 

 Canary-winged parrakeet, 234, 



235 

 Psittacus ha3morrhous,215 

 Xanthdpteyus, 234 

 Spleen, diseases of, 63, 64 

 Stands : 



Chain, 26, 36 

 Drawer, 26 

 Drinking vessel, 24 

 Food vessel, 24 

 Hoops, 24, 26, 27 

 Illustration, 25 

 Leg ring, 27 

 Perches, 24, 26 

 Einge, 26, 27 

 (See also under Hoops) 

 Steamboats, transportation in, 10 

 Steinhausen's, Dr., account of 

 Great Alexandrine parra- 

 keet, 205 

 Stolker's, Dr., accounts of Golden- 

 crowned conure, 219, 220 

 Stomach and intestines, catarrh in, 

 57, 58 

 Inflammation of, 57, 58 

 Stringops, 5 



Strongylus Syngramus, 55 

 Stiicklen's, Mr. W., account of Grey 



parrot, 86, 87 

 Stumps of feathers, removing, 49 

 Sulphur-crested cockatoos, 143-145 

 (See uiuler Greater and Lesser 

 Sulphur-crested coclcatoos) 

 Sunflower seeds as food, 31 

 Superstitions regarding nests, 7 

 Surinam- Amazone und Surinam pa- 



pagei, 101 

 Surinam Amazon parrot, 101 

 Susceptibility of parrots to teach- 

 ing, 34, 35 



