INDEX. 



Shrike, or Butcher-bird, 27, 158 ; used for 

 Hawking, 163, 164 



Skeleton of a bird, 26, 35 



Skimmer (Rhynchops), 377 



Snake-eater, 117 



Snipe's attachment to place, 324; mode of 

 feeding, 29 



Snowy Owl, habits of the, 148 



Solan Goose, 53, 374 



Soiig in birds pleasurable, 61 



South Stack, punctual return of sea-birds 

 to the, 89, 384 ; Lighthouse, birds killed 

 by flying against, 329; Razor-bills and 

 Guillemots at the, 402 



Sparrow, boldness of, 220; sociability of, 

 220; affection for their young, 222; sin- 

 gular death of a, 223 ; nest in a church, 231 



Sparrow-hawk, mode of catching, 134 ; 

 dwelling with Pigeons, 140 



Spiders, height to which they ascend in the 

 air, 244 



Spoonbill, shot at Holyhead, 316; Spoon- 

 bill's beak, 33 



St. Kilda, bird-catchers of, 410 



Stanley crest explained, 97 



Starlings, habits of, 208 



Stilt, Black-winged, 39 



Stork, 308 



Strength of the Condor, 115; of birds and 

 bones, 34 



Swallow's bill, 31 ; singular nest, 88 ; occa- 

 sionally detained, 90; different species, 

 236 ; if ever found dormant, 237 ; migration 

 of, 242 ; quantity of insects eaten by, 243 ; 

 nest in a bell and in a lamp, 245 ; courage, 

 246; suit their nests to circumstances, 

 247 ; edible nests, 267 



Swan, strength of, 349 ; black, 350 



Swiftness of Ostriches, 292; flight, how 

 calculated, 71 



TABLES of Classification, 9 ; utility of them, 



24 

 Tame Hawks, 140 ; Partridge, 285 ; Raven in 



wild state, 186, 187 ; Woodpecker, 267 

 Tanagers, 172 

 Tantalus, 315 



Tenuirostral tribes, of Passerine order, 255 

 Tenuirostres, or slender-billed, of order 



Waders, 319 

 Tern, habits of the, 378 



Thrush tribe, 165, 166 ; feeds a Blackbird, 

 169 ; feeds a Cuckoo, 169, 170 ; feeding on 

 shell-fish, 160 



Titmouse found at sea, 75 ; nest of the, 228 



Tongue of the Wryneck, 269 



Toucan's bill, 31 ; mode of killing small birds, 

 32 ; singular position while asleep, 36 



Tracheas, or windpipes, of DUCK tribes 

 56 



Trap for Eagles, 107; Goshawks, 131; Sparrow- 

 hawks, 134 



Tree-creeper, 257 



Tropic-bird lives almost always on wing, 

 77 



Turkey, wild, anecdote of the, 284 ; and 

 Partridge associate, 284 ; cock rearing 

 young ones, 285 



Turks' veneration for Storks, 310 



Turtles, migration of, 85 



VOICE of birds, 55, 60 

 Voracity of some birds, 43, 308, 304 

 Vulture floating on a corpse, 101 ; par- 

 ticulars of, no ; mode of catching in South 

 America, 114; voracity of, 114 



WAGTAIL'S nest in a brassfouudry, 228 ; in 

 a boat, 229 



Warblers, 228 



Warmth of birds, 46, 54 



Water-Ousel walking under water, 70 



Water-hen, account of, 297 



Washington, Bird of, 104 



Wedge-billed birds, or Cuneirostral, 263 



Weight, comparative, of Birds, 69 



Windows, how to prevent Swallows building 

 near, 251 



Wing-bones described, 37 



Winter, hard, favourable to insects, 197 



Wire-worms destroyed by Rooks, 196 



Woodcocks breed in Scotland, 325 ; migra- 

 tion of, 327; rapid flight proved, 328; 

 method of catching them, 330 ; supposed to 

 remove their young, 325 



Wood-Pigeon, 275 



Woodpecker, 263 ; tame, 267 



Wrens, 227 



Wryneck, tongue of the, 269 



YOUNG birds carried off by the old ones, 

 320. 325, 326, 400 



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