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Quarles, E. A., 261 

 Quarles, F. A., 36 

 Quicklime, birds buried in, 17 



Raccoons, destructiveness of, 

 24, 30; food of, 25 



Rails, 59; photographing of, 60 



Raquet, description and use of, 

 67 



Rats as destroyers, 29, 30 



Redpolls, 2; flocks of, 4; food of, 

 139; friendliness of, 144; win- 

 dow box for, 148 



Redstarts, 65 



Rehder, Alfred, 190 



Resources, natural, conservation 

 of, 125 



Rhinebeck, N. Y., Bird Club, 



Rhode Island, Biological Labora- 

 tory at Kingston, 18 



Roberts, Thomas S., 12 



Robins, 18; houses of, 216; 

 legal killing of, 69; slaughter 

 of, in Southern States, 70; 

 value of, in, 112; winter 

 feeding of, 164; winter hard- 

 ships of , 13; young, 33 



Roccolos, description and use 

 of, 67 



Rodents, destruction of, 81 



Roosevelt, Theodore, 289 



Royal Society for the Protec- 

 tion of Birds at St. Catherine's, 

 256 



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Saint-Gaudens, Mrs. Louis, 231 



Salt, 3, 140 



Salt Lake City, Utah, 85 



Sanctuary, bird, 55, 190, 231; 

 bath, 220; cats, 248; descrip- 

 tion of a successful one, 283; 

 establishment of, 282; estab- 

 lishment of , in Germany, 198; 

 Sanctuary, 118 



Sanderson, Professor E. D., in 



Sandpipers, destroyers of insects, 

 89 



Sapsucker, yellow-bellied, de- 

 structiveness of, 84; nest boxes 



of, 2 12 



Savage, James, 14, 15, 234 

 Saw whet, nest boxes, 212 

 Scalp Act, The, 264 

 Scarecrow, 246 

 Scavengers, 94 ; sea-gulls, 87 

 Schaeffer, Nathan C., 42 

 Schubert, Cymbeline, 121 

 Scientists, value of, 267 

 Scotland, King James I., 122 

 "Seebach," 193 

 Seeds, kinds used for food, 90, 



91, 138, 139, 140; kinds used 



for winter food, 137; purchase 



of, 137 



Seton, Ernest Thompson, 215 

 Shakespeare, 122 

 Shearwaters, 59 

 Shelter woods, 216 

 Shelves, for Phoebes and Robins, 



215 

 Shrikes, destructive to small 



birds, 30; economic value of, 



no 



Siegfried, 120 



Siskins, 66; pine, 2, 4, 139, 144 

 Skunks, 25; damage done by, 27 

 Skylarks, 66 

 Slaughter of birds by negroes, 



poor whites, 69, 70 

 Smite, Helen Woodruff, 281 

 Smithsonian Institute, 99 

 Snakes, black, milk, 36 

 Snipe family, 17 

 Snow, seed-eating birds, 16 

 Society for Prevention of Cruelty 



to Animals, 77 

 Sparrows, 16; chipping, 13, 139, 



140, 144; European, 18; 



enemy of song birds, 78; 



extermination of, 30, 241 ; 



field, 18; food of, 83; fox, 138, 



139, 140, 145; poisoning of, 



243; song, 14, 34; attacked by 



snake, 37; description of bath, 



