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INDEX 



Brain-fever bird, 223 

 Bubulcus coromandus, 189 

 Bulbul, 212, 248, 249, 253 



— green, 116-20 

 Burroughs, John, 4, 46 

 Butasfur teesa, 32-6 

 Butcher bird, 34, 45-50 

 Butler, 143 



Butler, Colonel, 20, 113 

 Buzzard. 47 



— white-eyed, 32-6 



Canary, 249, 250, 251 



Casavca rutila, 149 



Casque, 5 



Cement of bird masons, 17 1-7 



Centropus iniermedius, 14 



— maximus, 14 



— phasianus, 1 1 



— rufipennis, 14, iii 



— sinensis, 10 

 Cercomela fusca, 16 



— melanuva, 18 

 Chaffinch, 247 



Chat, brown rock-, 16-20 

 Chelidon urbica, 173 

 Chilian wigeon, 109 

 Chinkara, 42 

 Chloropsis, 117, 118, 120 



— Jerdoni, 118 



— Jerdon's, 118 



— Malabar, 118 



— malabarica, 118 

 Cholum bird, 192 

 Clare, 24 



Climate, adaptability of birds to, 



241 

 Clubs, bird, 223 

 Cobra, 89-93 

 Cobweb, 174-7 

 Coccystis jacobinus, 231 



Colouration, protective, 121, 142 



— warning, 79, 204 

 Coot, 78-83 



— purple, 84-8 

 Coppersmith, 74, 212, 213 

 Copsychus saulavis, 253 

 Coracias indica, 75, 171 

 Corby, 211, 212, 242 

 Cormorant, 40, 121, 125 

 Corporate action, 195 



Corvus macfovhynchus, 211, 230, 

 242 



— splendens, 4, 118, 211, 228, 

 242 



Cotile riparia, 237 



— sinensis, 237, 241, 254 

 Cotton tree, birds in the, 208-13 

 Coucal, 10, II, 12, 13, 91 



— Southern Chinese, 13 

 Cow-bird, 9 



Cowper, 23, 106 



Crab, 113 



Crane, 144, 167 



Cyateropus canorus, 215, 221, 253 



Crocodile, 94 



Crotalavia juncea, 141 



Crow, 14, 24, 25, 26, 41, 42, 64, 



65, 107, 112, 136, 165, 168, 



169, 171, 189, 211, 212, 228, 



230, 242, 255 

 Crow-pheasant, lo, 11, 12, 13, 



14, 91, III 

 Cuckoo, 9-15, 161, 171 



— lark-heeled, 10 



— pied crested, 231, 232 

 shrike, 190 



— sirkeer, 14 

 CuUcapa ceylonensis, 179 

 Cunningham, Colonel, 10, 26, 92 



197, 200, 222 

 Cygnus olor, 99-103 

 Cyornis superciliavis, 181 



