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INDEX 
Blue-headed, 500; Grey, 500; Pied, 
3854, 500, 501; White, 500; Yellow, 
499, 500, 501 
Walghvogel, 329 
Wallace, on Geographical Distribution, 15 
f. ; on Birds of Paradise, 543 n., 550 ; 
on Humming-birds, 432 
Wallace’s Line, 16, 564 
Walpole, on Didunculus, 332 
Warbler, 513; habits, 517 f. ; American, 
573 f.; Black-cap, 517; Black-and- White, 
574; Garden-, 517; Grasshopper-, 517, 
518; Reed-, 354, 517; Savi’s, 518; 
Sedge-, 517; Willow-, 517; Wood-, 
517 
Warrior, 437 
Water-Cock, 249 
Water-hen (= Moor-hen) loses wing-quills 
simultaneously, 4 n. 
Waterton, on Humming-birds, 432 
Wattle-bird, 566 
Wavy, 133 
Wax-bill, 577, 578 
Wax-like tips to feathers, 3 
Waxwing, 529 f., 530 
Weaver-bird, 868, 576 f., 577; habits, 
578 f. 
Webs, of feathers, 2; of toes, 10; in Al- 
cidae, 315; in Anatidae, 112; in 
Colymbidae and Podicipedidae, 49 ; 
in Laridae, 301; in Limicolae, 269 ; 
in Steganopodes, 71 
Weka, 248, 245, 247 
Whale-bird, 66 
Whale-head, 93 
Whaup, 287 
Wheatear, 511, 516 
Whew, 126 
Whimbrei, 288 f. 
Whinchat, 511, 516 
Whip-poor-Will, 417 
Whip-Tom-Kelly, 536 
White colour in Birds, its nature, 3 n. 
White, on Purnarius, 486 
White Crow, 145 
White-eye, 568 
White-throat, 517 
Whitmee, on Didunculus, 332 
Whooper, 135 
Whymper, on Condor, 138 
Wideawake Fair, 312 
Widow-bird, 577 
Wigeon—see Duck 
Willet, 284 
Willock, 319 
Wilson, A., on Humming-birds, 432; on 
Passenger Pigeon, 342 
Wilson, 8. B., and Evans, on Drepanididae, 
562 n. ; on Meliphagidae, 568 n. 
Wind-hover, 148, 175 
Windpipe, use and formation, 13 
Wing, 8 
Wing-coverts, 20 
Wing-quills—see Quills 
Wing-spurs, 9 
Wire-bird, 274 
Wires, of Birds of Paradise, 3, 545 f. 
Witthoos, figure of Didus borbonicus, 
330 
Woodcock, 289 f., 290 ; bill, 11 
Wood-Hen, 247 
Wood-Ibis, 70, 97 
Wood-Mason, on Rhynchaea, 292 n. 
Woodpecker, 149, 445, 457 f. ; bill, 12; 
habits, 458 f.; vertebra, 6; Black, 
458, 464; Californian, 461; Great 
Black, 463 ; Great Spotted, 462, 463 ; 
Green, 460; Ivory-billed, 463 ; Lesser 
Spotted, 462, 462; Pileated, 4638 ; 
Spotted, 458, 461 
Wood-Swallow, 530 f. 
Wren, 426, 519, 521 f., 521; Bush-, 472; 
Rock-, 472 
Wrist, 8 
Wry-bill, 274, 274 
Wryneck, 445, 457, 459, 464 f., 465 
Xanthocephalus, 581 
Xanthochroism, 4 n. 
Xanthocorys, 499 
NXantholaema haematocephala, 449 
NXanthomelus, 550; X. aureus, 548 
Xanthomixis, 503 
NXanthura luxuosa, 554 
Nema, 301; X. furcatum, 310 ; X. sabinii, 
304, 310 
Xenerpestes, 484 
Xenicidae, 469, 472 
Xenicus, 472; X. gilviventris, 472; X. 
longipes, 472 
Xenocichla, 505 
Xenopipo atronitens, 478 
Xenopirostris, 531, 5383; X. 
mimicry, 533 
Xenops, 484, 487 
NXenopsaris, 482 
Xenorhynchus, fossil, 99; X. australis, 
98 
Nerophila, 539, 540 
Nipholena, 480 ; X. pompadora, 480 
Xiphorhamphus, 502, 504 
Xiphorhynchus, 484, 487 
polleni, 
Yaflle, 460 
Yarrell’s British Birds, 212 n., 285 n. 
Yellow colour in Birds, its nature, 3 n. 
Yellow Hammer, 584 
Yellowshank, 283 f. 
Yelper, 278 
Young, moult late, 4; in Turdinae and 
Sylviinae, 513; of Megapodiidae fly 
early, 191 
Zanclostomus, 351 
