846 
california 424 
canada 425 
crested blue 421 
crestless blue 423 
florida 423 
long-crested 422 
oregon 425 
rio grande 424 
rocky mountain 425 
smutty-nosed 425 
steller’s 421 
woodhouse’s 423 
Jays 414, 419 
brown 419 
crested blue 421 
crestless blue 423 
gray 425 
green 424 
Jejunum 213 
Jerfalcon see gyrfalecon 
Jugal 
bar 162 
bone 162 
Jugulum 96 
Junco 377 
aikeni 378 
annectens 379 
caniceps 379 
cinereus 379 
connectens 378 
dorsalis 379 
hiemalis 377 
oregonus 378 
Jurassic birds 61, 62, 829 
KADIAK song sparrow 372 
Kagu 665 
Kennicott’s 
sereech owl 505 
warbler 259 
Kentucky warbler 310 
Kestrels 532 
Key 
to the families 231 
to the orders 230 
Key west dove 571 
Keys 
artificial 227 
directions for using 227 
Kidneys 317 
Kildeer plover 60 
King 
eider 712 
rail 672 
King-bird 452 
gray 433 
Kingfisher 
belted 470 
texan green 470 , 
Kingfishers 468 
belted 469 
piscivorous 469 
Kinglet 
golden-crested 260 
ruby-crowned 259 
western golden-crested 260 
Kinglets, 242, 259 
Kirtland’s warbler 306 
Kitchenmiddens 64 
Kite 
black-shouldered 525 
everglade 523 
mississippi 524 
swallow-tailed 526 
INDEX. 
Kite 
white-tailed 525 
Kites 522 
lead 523 
pearl 525 
sickle-billed 523 
swallow-tailed 525 
Kittiwake 
common 748 
kotzebue’s 748 
red-legged 748 
short-billed 748 
Kittiwakes 747 
Kittlitz’s murrelet 813 
Knee 120 
cap 119 
joint 119 
Knives 25, 52 
Knob-nosed auk 808 
Knot 632 
Kotzebue’s kittiwake 748 
Krider’s red-tail 545 
LABELLING, 21, 23, 53, 79 
Labels 23, 24 
Labrador 
duck 706 
gyrfalcon 532 
Labyrinth 
of ear, 187, 188, 190 
of trachea 50, 202 
Lacrymal ~ 
bone 165 
duct 179 
gland 179, 181 
Lacteals 199 
Ladder-backed three-toed wood- 
pecker 485 
Lady of the waters 661 
Levo-carotidinz 198 
Lagena 189 
Lagopus 585 
~ albus 48, 586 
atkensis 588 
leucurus 588 
mutus 588 
reinhardti 588 
rupestris 587 
scoticus 577 
Laletes osburni 330 
Lamellate bill 102 
Lamellirostral 101 
Lamellirostres 677, 824 
Lamina 
spiralis 188 
terminalis 175 
Lamine of tarsus 125 
Laminiplantar tarsus 125 
Laminiplantation 126 
Lampornis mango 459 
Land rails 674 
Laniidz 336 
Laniinz 336 
Lanius 337 
borealis 337 
excubitorides 338 
ludovicianus 338 
Lanner, american 534 
Lanners 532 
Laopteryx priscus 829 
Laornis edvardsianus 828 
Lapland longspur 357 
Lap owl 509 
Lapwing, crested 605 
Lapwings 604 
Large-billed 
Fox sparrow 386 
puffin 803 
wag-tail warbler 309 
Larger white-cheeked goose 688 
Laride 733 
Larine 739 
Lark 
bunting 387 
finch 384 
savanna sparrow 363 
sparrows 384 
Lark 
brown 286 
field 406 
horned 281 
meadow 406 
meadow mexican 406 
meadow western 406 
shore 281 
western 282 
southwestern 282 
sky 282, 283 
Larks, 280 
meadow 405 
Larus 740 
aftinis 745 
argentatus 743 
brachyrhynchus 745 
cachinnans 744 
californicus 745 
canus 745 
delawarensis 745 
glaucescens 741 
glaucus 741 ° 
heermanni 747 
kumlieni 742 
leucopterus 741 
marinus 742 
occidentalis 744 
smithsonianus 743 
Larve of insects 55 
Larynx 202 
lower 204 
Latitores 665 
Laughing gull 750 
Law of priority 80 
Lawrence’s 
crested fly-catcher 436 
goldfinch 355 
stilt petrel 783 
warbler 293 
Lawyer 611 
Lazuli painted finch 391 
Leach’s petrel 781 
Lead kites 523 
Least 
auk 808 
bittern 664 
bush-tit 268 
flycatcher 442 
greenlet 335 
petrel 780 
sandpiper 625 
snow goose 686 
tern 766 
Le conte’s 
bunting 366 
grasshopper sparrow 366 
Le 
; plumage of 122 
relative length of 123 
Leguatia gigantea 65 
Length of leg, relative 123 
“Lengths” of parts 24, 25, 
Leptosomatidze 446 
