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INDEX 



Chat, Yellow-breasted, 25 

 Chatterer. See Waxwing, Bohemian 

 Chebec. See Flycatcher, Least 

 Check-list of birds known to occur 



regularly in Minnesota, 12 

 Chen hyperboreus nivalis, 22 

 Cherry-bird. See Waxwing, Cedar 

 Chewink. See Towhee 

 Chickadee, 8, 21; illustration, young, 86; 

 Museum group, 87 



Black-capped. See Chickadee 

 Hudsonian, 7, 21; illustration, 



Museum group, 87 

 Long-tailed, 25 

 Chickadees, law relating to, 38 

 Chicken, Prairie, 16; decrease of, 32; law 



relating to, 36 

 Chippy. See Sparrow, Chipping 

 Colaptes cafer collaris, 24 

 Collecting for scientific purposes, law 



relating to, 36 

 Columhae, law relating to, 36 

 Columbidae, law relating to, 38 

 Coot, 14; laws relating to, 36, 38 



white-winged. See Scoter, White- 

 winged 

 Cormorant, 34 



Double-crested, 12; as questionable 

 bird, 45 

 Cowbird, 18; illustrations — eggs, 74, 75, 



78, 79; young, 76, 77 

 Crane, Blue. See Heron, Great Blue 

 Little Brown, 23 

 Sandhill, 14; decrease of, 31 

 White. See Crane, Whooping 

 Whooping, 14; decrease of, 31 

 Cranes, law relating to, 38 

 Creeper, Black and White. See Warbler, 

 Black and White 

 Brown, 9, 21 

 Crossbill, 7, 18 



American. See Crossbill 

 Red. See Crossbill 

 White-winged, 18 

 Crotophaga sulcirostris, 24 

 Crow, 18; great increase of, 32; law re- 

 lating to, 36; as outlawed bird, 45 

 Fish, 35 

 Cuckoo, Black-billed, 16; illustration, 

 nest and eggs, 58 

 • Yellow-billed, 16 



Cuckoos, law relating to, 58 

 Curlew, Eskimo, 29 



Hudsonian, 28 



Long-billed. 29 

 Curlews, law relating to, 38 



Dabchick. See Grebe, Pied-billed 

 Dendroica cerulea, 25 



kirtlandi, 25 

 Dickcissel, 19 



Diver, Great Northern. See Loon 

 Dove, Mourning, 15; laws relating to, 

 36, 38 



Prairie. See Gull, Franklin's 



Turtle. See Dove, Mourning 

 Dowitcher, 35 



Long-billed, 14; law relating to, 38 

 Duck, Baldpate, 13 



Black, 13 



Blue-bill. See Duck, Scaup and 

 Lesser Scaup 



Buffle-head, 13 



Canvas-back. See Canvas-back 



Fish. See Merganser, Hooded 



Gad wall, 13 



Golden-eye, 13 



Gray. See Gadwall 



Harlequin, 34 



King Eider. See Eider, King 



Lesser Scaup, 13 



Long-tailed. See Old-squaw 



Mallard. See Mallard 



Old-squaw. See Old-squaw 



Pintail. See Pintail. 



Redhead. See Redhead. 



Ring-billed. See Duck, Ring- 

 necked 



Ring-necked, 13 



Ruddy, 13 



Scaup, 13 



Shoveler, 13 



Spirit. See Buffle-head 



Summer. See Duck, Wood 



Wood, 13; decrease of, 31 

 Ducks, Diving, 13 

 Ducks, laws relating to, 36, 38 



Ducks, Surface Feeding, 13 



Eagle, Bald, 16; decrease of, 32 

 Golden, 16; decrease of, 32 



