Upupide, 267, 296. 
Uragus, 285. 
Uranornis, 282. 
Ureters, 209. 
Uria, 305. 
troile, 21. 
Uriade, 277, 305. 
Urinary system, 209. 
Uroactus, 300. 
Urobrachya, 283. 
Uro-caudal vertebree, 
174. 
Urocharis, 286. 
Urochroa, 294 
Urochroma, 299. 
Urocichla, 288. 
Urocissa, 281. 
—-- erythrorhynchus, 
1p 
Urococeyx, 298. 
Urocynchramus, 285. 
Urodynamis, 298. 
Urogalba, 297. 
Uroleuca, 281. 
Uroloncha, 283. 
Uropsila, 288. 
Urospatha, 296. 
Urospizias, 300. 
Urasticte, 294. 
Trothraupis, 284. 
Urotriorchis, 300. 
Urubitinga, 800. 

Vanellus, 304. 
cristatus, 59. 
Vanga, 286. 
Vasa deferentia, 209. 
Ventricles, 219. 
Verreauxia, 297. 
Vertebree, type of, 169. 
, categories of, 170. 
Vertebral arteries, 217, 
226. 
column, 169. 
ribs, 175. 
Vestiaria, 284. 
Vidua, 283. 
Viduine, 283. 




ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 
Vini, 299. 
Vireo, 287. 
Vireolanius, 287. 
Vireonide, 262, 287. 
Virginia Nightingale, 
105. 
Visceral clefts and 
arches, 225. 
Volatinia, 284. 
Vultur, 300. 
monachus, 127. 
Vultures, 127, 271. 
“ulturide, 271, 300. 

Waders, 68. 
Wagtails, 111, 262. 
Wallets, 54. 
Warblers, 107, 262. 
Water-rail, 17. 
Wattled Ant-thrushes, 
268. 
Waxwing, 106, 262. 
Weaver-birds, 115, 
261. 
Weka Rail, 63. 
West - African  subre- 
gion, Birds of, 243. 
Wheatear, 108. 
Whinbrel, 52. 
White-eyes, 262. 
Windpipe, 210. 
Wing-bones,  articula- 
tions of, 194. 
* Wings, 153. 

, muscles of, 203. 
~-~—~, skeleton of, 190. 
Woodcocks, 53, 275. 
Woodhewers, 117, 119, 
263. 
Wood-hoopoes, 87, 88, 
89. 
Woodpeckers, 71. 
and Wrynecks, 
267. 
Wood-stork, 43, 272. 
Wood-swallows, 262. 
Wood-wren, 107. 
Wrens, 96, 98, 262. 

329 
Wrens, New-Zealand, 
263. 
Wryneeks and Wood- 
peckers, 267. 
Xanthocephalus, 285. 
Xanthocorys, 235. 
Xantholema, 297. 
Xanthomelus, 282. 
Xanthomixis, 289. 
Xanthopygia, 290. 
Xanthura, 281. 
Xema, 304. 
Xenerpestes, 292. 
fenicide, 268, 292. 
Xenicus, 292. 
Xenocichla, 289. 
NXenodacnis, 284. 
Xenopicus, 297. 
Xenopipo, 291. 
Aenopirostris, 286. 
Xenops, 292. 
Xenospingus, 285. 
Xerophila, 286. 
Niphidiopicus, 297. 
NXiphocolaptes, 292. 
Xipholena, 292. 
Xiphorhamphus, 289. 
NXiphorhynchus, 292. 
Young, condition of 
plumage, 280. 
Yuhina, 289. 
Zanclostomus, 298. 
Zeledonia, 293. 
Zenaida, 298. 
Zeocephus, 290, 
Zodalia, 294. 
Zoneyinthus, 283. 
Zonogastris, 283. 
Zonotrichia, 285. 
Zoological classifica- 
tion, 1, 252. 
nomenclature, 4. 
Zosteropide, 262, 286. 
Zosterops, 286. 
Zygodactyle foot, 164. 


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