INDEX 
AFFECTIONS, 78-82. 
Air-sacs, 92, 94. 
Arrival in spring, 3, 4. 
Attraction and protection of birds, 131- 
135. 
Audubon, John James, 60. 
Auks, 110. 
Beak, 95-97. 
Blackbird, crow, 72. 
Blackbirds, 3, 126, 129. 
Bluebird, arrival, 3; getting food for 
young, 17; teaching young to fly, 37, 
38 ; feeding, 50. 
Bobolink, nest of, 9; one of the first 
birds to stop singing in summer, 47; 
the fall migration, 61, 62. 
Bob-white (quail), 44, 59. 
Body, shape of, 91. z 
Bolles, Frank, his pet owl, 101, 116; 
his story of a heron, 103, 104. 
Bones, 92, 94. 
Books about birds, 142-144. 
Brooding, 13-16. 
Buzzard, turkey, 50, 51. 
Canary, 20, 57, 81. 
Cardinal, 69, 132. 
Catbird, food of, 49, 126; jerking the 
tail, 113. 
Cedar-bird, feeding young, 19; story of 
affection for young, 78; usefulness to 
man, 126, 129. 
Chewink, 76, 77. 
Chickadee, defending eggs, 11, 12; get- 
ting food for young, 18; as an eater 


of insects’ eggs, 68, 126; affection for 
young, 78. 
Color in feathers, 120. See Plumage. 
Cormorant, 94. 
Crop, 93. 
Crossbill, 97. 
Crow, punishing a young one, 37 ; sleep- 
ing in flocks, 59, 60; story of an affec- 
tionate, 80; usefulness to man, 126. 
Down, the first plumage, 15, 21, 22, 
115. 
Ducks, 97, 115. 
Ears, 102-104. 
Eggs, beauty of, 11; the mother’s care, 
11, 12; incubation and hatching of, 
13-15. 
Eyes, 100-102. 
Feather tracts, 22, 23. ; 
Feathers, their first appearance on the 
young bird, 22; of the wing, 109-111; 
of the tail, 112, 113 ; the various kinds 
of, 114, 115; expression of emotions 
by, 116; the birds’ care of the, 116, 
117. See Plumage. 
Feet, 92, 105-108. 
Fish, birds and dead, 86, 87. 
Flicker, method of feeding young, 18; 
food of, 85, 127 ; color markings, 121. 
Flying, 93. 
Food, 48-55; in winter, 67-69, 134; in 
its relation to the welfare of man, 
125-130. 
| Frigate-bird, 110. 
