480 



INDEX. 



Swallow's courage, 270 



suit their nests to circum- 

 stances, 272 



nests eatable, 272 



scarcity of them in late 



years, 276 



Ssvan, strength of, 392 



black, 393 



Swiftness of Ostriches, 320 



flight, how calculated, 76 



Swimming Hen, 305 



Tables of Classification, 9 



utility of them, 24 



Tame Hawks, 153 



Partridge, 313 



Raven in wild state, 205 



Woodpecker, 293 



Tanagers, 189 

 Tantalus, 353 



Tenuirostral tribes, of Passerine order, 



282 

 Tenuirostres, or Slender-billed, of 



order of Waders, 358 

 Tern, habits of the, 427 

 Thrush tribe, 180 



feeds a Blackbird, 184 ; feeds 



a Cuckoo, 187 



feeding on shell-fish, 183 



Titmouse found at sea, 81 



nest of the, 252 



Todus viridis, 282 



Tongue of the Wryneck, 294 

 Toucan-bill. 33 



mode of killing small birds, 



33 



- singular position w r hile asleep, 

 38 



Tracheas, or windpipes, of Duck 



tribe, 58 

 Traps for Eagles, 121 



Goshawks, 146 



Sparrow-Hawks, 147 



Tree-Creeper, 284 



Tropic Bird Jives almost always on 



wing, 82 



Turkey, wild, anecdote of the, 310 



and Partridge associate, 311 

 Cock rearing young ones, 



312 



Turks' veneration for Storks, 342 

 Turtles, migration of, 90 



Voice of birds, 59, 63 



Voracity of some birds, 45, 341, 351 



Vulture floating on a corpse, 110 



particulars of, 124 



mode of catching in South 



America, 128 

 voracity, 130 



Wagtail's nest in a brass-foundry, 252 



in a boat, 253 



Warblers, 251 

 Warmth of Birds, 49, 57 

 W'ater-Crow walking under water, 75 



Hen, account of, 325 



Washington, Bird of, 115 

 Wedge-billed birds, or Cuneirostral, 



289 



Weight, comparative, of Birds, 74 

 Windows, how to prevent Swallows 



building near, 276 

 Wing-bones described, 40 

 Winter, hard, favourable to insects, 



218 



Wire-worms destroyed by Rooks, 216 

 Woodcocks breed in Scotland, 367 



migration of, 369 



rapid flight proved, 371 



method of catching them , 



372 



supposed to remove their 



young, 367 

 Wood-Pigeon, 302 

 Woodpecker, 289 



tame, 293 



Wrens, 251 



Wryneck, tongue of the, 294 



Young birds carried off by the old 

 ones, 359, 367, 368, 452. 



THE END. 



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