158 
Bond, Frank, on fighting the Eng- 
lish sparrow, 75-77. 
Books, bird, 155. 
Borggreve. Die Vogelschutzfrage, 
63. 
Botany, Manual of. 
Gray, 22. 
Botany of California. 
Watson, 22. 
Boxes, nesting ; provide, 33. 
Boy, a (verse), 107. 
Boys, collectors, and so-called bird 
students, 8. 
Bracket shelves for swallows, 38. 
Branching, species with copious, 24. 
Coulter, 22; 
Whitney and 
Britton and Brown. Illustrated 
Flora, 22. 
Brown, Britton and.  Tllustrated 
Flora, 22. 
Brown thrasher (verse), 107. 
Buck, Parson and. The Wild Flow- 
ers of California, 22. 
Bulletins, farmers’, 150. 
Burning-bush (figure), 31. 
C 
California, Botanyof. Whitney and 
Watson, 22; The Wild Flowers of. 
Parson and Buck, 22. 
Camera, hunting with a, 131. 
Canary, wild (verses), 109. 
Carrion places, 59. 
Catbird (verses), 109. 
Cat-proof fence (figure), 67. 
Cats causing decrease of birds, 8. 
Cats, protecting birds against, 64-67. 
Causes for the decrease of song 
birds, 6. 
Causes of decrease in bird life, 
Hornaday’s report, 11. 
Cedar, red; burning-bush and (fig- 
ure), 31. 
Census, bird; difficult to take, 5; of 
the United States, 1. 
Chapman. Flora of the Southern 
United States, 22. 
Cheyenne, Wy., list of birds from, 
79, 80. 
INDEX 
Chickadee, child and (verses), 120. 
Chickadees, nesting boxes for, 36. 
Child and chickadee (verses), 120. 
Chipmunks, squirrels and, 68. 
Chippie (verses), 113. 
Christmas tree, birds’ (figure), 57. 
Coil, tarred rope, U6. 
Collectors, 84. 
Collectors, boys, and so-called bird 
students, 8. 
Concluding 
boxes, 40. 
Conclusions regarding birds, Horna- 
day’s report, 122. 
remarks on nesting 
Conclusions regarding Western 
mammals, Hornaday’s report, 
138. 
Construction of bathing and drink- 
ing basins, 43. 
Copious branching, species with, 24. 
Coulter. Manual of Botany, 22. 
Creepers, nesting boxes for, 37. 
Crows, 70. 
D 
Dana, Mrs. How to know the Wild 
Flowers, 22. 
Davenport, Mrs. Elizabeth B, on 
feeding birds in winter, 46-53. 
Decrease, causes of ; in bird life, 
Hornaday’s report, 11. 
Decrease of birds, per cent of, 2. 
Decrease of game birds, the, 13. 
Decrease of song birds, causes for 
the, 6. 
Dense foliage and fruit, species of- 
fering, 26. 
Dense foliage, species with, 24. 
Department of agriculture, 149. 
Desirable species; on account of 
PU. 
Directions, 
boxes, 33. 
Directory of Audubon 
93, 94. 
Dogs, 67. 
Drinking and bathing fountains, 
42. 
Duck, wood; nesting boxes for, 39. 
general, for nesting 
societies, 
