INDEX 
B. erythrothorax, 173; B. leucopais, 
173; LB. lophotes, 173; B. madagas- 
cariensis, 173; B. magnirostris, 178 ; 
B. reinwardti,. 173; B. rufa, 173 ;.B. 
subcristata, 173 ; B. sumatrensis, 173 ; 
B. timorlaensis, 173; B. verreauxi, 
175 
Beak, 11 f. 
Bearcoot, 162 
Beddard, on trachea of Paradise-bird, 545 
n.; on Zosterops, 568 
Bee-eater, 376, 387 f., 389; habits, 388 ; 
Blue-tailed, 389 
Belding, on Harlequin Duck, 120 
Bell-bird, 482, 482, 567, 567 n. 
Belly, 20- 
Bendire, on habits of Canachites, 236 
Berenicornis, 391, 393; B. comatus, 393 
Bergut, 162 
Berlepsch, on Humming-birds, 432 
Bernicla, 131; B. brenta, 1381; B. cana- 
densis, 131 f.: B. hutchinsi, 132: B. 
leucopsis, 131; B. minima, 132; B. 
nigricans, 1313; B. occidentalis, 132 ; 
B. ruficollis, 131, 132 
Bernieria, 503 
Bevies, 221 
Bhringa, 528 
Bhund-Moorg, 208 
Bias, 506 
Biconcave vertebrae, in Jchthyornis, and 
probably in Archaeopteryx, 6, 49 3 per- 
haps in Enaliornis, 49 
Bill, 11 f.; arched, 12; of DBalaeniceps 
and Cancroma, 86;  scissor-like, 12 ; 
wedge-like, 12 
Bill-sheath, 11: in Chionis, 268 ; nature 
of, 2n.; shed, in Auks, 317, 318 
Bird, definition, 1: differences from other 
Vertebrata, 1 f.; derivation from Rep- 
tiles, 14 
Bird of Paradise, 543 f.; D’Albertis’, 
544 ; fables concerning, 543 ; habits, 
550 f.; Great, 546; Long-tailed, 546 ; 
King, 547 ; Magnificent, 547; Twelve- 
wired, 545; Red, 546; Six-wired, 547 
f., 548 
Birds’-nest soup, 425 
Birds of passage, 17 
Birds of prey, 108; cere, 11; moult, 5 
Birds of the Gods, 545 
Bittern, 70, 90; habits, 87 f; 
89 ; Little, 88 
DBiziura, 111, 114; fossil, 136 ; 
aly ays 
Blacicus, 474 
Blackbird, 510, 515 
Blackburn, on Cuckoo, 
Black-Cock, 237 f. 
Black Witch, 359 
Blake, on Flamingo, 107 
Blight-bird, 568 
VOL. IX 
Common, 
B. lobata, 
Bd 
| Blind-saes, 12 
| Blue-bird, Fairy, 505 
Blue colour in birds, its nature, 3 n. 
Blue Darr, 314 
Blue-eye, 568 
Blue-throat, 512, 516 
Boatswain-bird, 72 
Boat-tail, 580 
Bobolink, 580 
Bob-White, 204, 232 
Bonasa, 199, 201; B. griseiventris, 
f.; B. severtzovi, 234; B. sylvestris, 
233 ; B. umbellus, 233 
Bontekoe, figure of Didus borbonicus, 330 
Bonxie, 304 
Booby, 74, 82 
Booted, 10 
Bostrychia carunculata, 102 
Botaurus, 87, 88 ; B. lentiginosus, 89 ; B. 
pinnatus, 89; B. poeciloptilus, 89; LB. 
| stellaris, 89 
| Bourdons, 426 
Bower-bird, 543, 548 f., 550; 
551 f. ; Satin—see Satin-bird 
Brachygalba, 446 ; B. albigularis, 445 ; B. 
| melanosterna, 445 
Brachypteracias, 378; B. leptosomus, 378 
Brachypteryx, 502 
Brachyrhamphus craveri, 319; B. hypo- 
leucus, 319; B. kittlitzi, 318; B. mar- 
moratus, 318 
Bradypteri, of Sharpe, 513 
Bradypterus, 514 
Brambling, 584 
Branta, fossil, 136 
Breast, 20 
Breast-bone, 6 
3rewer —see Baird 
Brigade, vi (Preface) 
3risson, on Lucco (including Barbet), 448 ; 
on Strigidae, 398 n. 
Bristle-feathers, 3 
Bristles, nature of, 2 n. 
Broad-bill, 467 ; habits, 469 
Broderip, on Toucan, 454 n. 
Brodrick—see Salvin, F. H. 
Bromvogel, 392 
Bronchi, 13 
Bronchial syrinx, 21 
Bronn’s Thier-reich, 14, 23 
Brontornis, 45 ; B. burmeisteri, 45 
Bronze-wing—see Pigeon 
Brown colour in birds, its nature, 3 n. 
Buarremon, 575, 576 
| Bubo, 398-403 ; fossil, 415; B. abyssi- 
nicus, 414; B. ascalaphus, 414; BD. 
bengalensis, 414 ; B. blakistoni, 414 ; B. 
capensis, 414; B. cinerascens, 414; B. 
coromandus, 403, 414 ; B. dorriesi, 414 ; 
B. ignavus, 413 f.; B. lacteus, 414; B. 
lettii, 414; B. leucostictus, 414; B. 
maculosus, 414; B. magellanicus, 414 ; 
2Q 
99 
233 
habits, 
