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INDEX TO TEXT 



Robin, Western, in Canadian Rock- 

 ies, 351. 

 Rook, Abundance, of, in England, 



400. 



Rookery, Cuthbert, 135-148. 

 Flamingo, 109. 

 life, 124, 144. 

 meaning of term, 81. 

 Roosevelt, President, creates Re- 

 serve of Pelican Island, 84. 



SALTON SEA, White Pelicans on an 



island in, 371. 

 Sandpiper, Bartram's, nesting on 



Gardiner's Island, 46. 

 Santa Catalina Mountains, 248. 

 Sapsucker, Williamson's, Nest of, 



in Sierras, 308. 

 Saskatchewan, Big Stick Lake, 



White Pelicans on, 384. 

 Scott's ranch on Crane Lake, 342. 

 Sea grape in Bahamas, 152, 207. 

 Sea lavender in Bahamas, 152, 207. 

 Sedge in Bahamas, 152. 

 Selborne, England, Attractions of, 



401. 



Seton, Ernest, at Shoal Lake, Mani- 

 toba, 325. 



attacked by Black Tern, 325. 

 Sexual display of Prairie Hen, 233. 

 Shasta, Mt., Grandeur of, 294, 297. 

 Shearwater, Audubon's, in Baha- 

 mas, 198. 



Nesting habits of, 198. 

 Notes of, 199. 

 on Cay Verde, 208. 

 Shiras, George, 3d, Camp with, on 

 Cay Verde, 206. 

 Voyage in Bahamas with, 200, 



204. 



Shoal Lake, Manitoba, Birds ob- 

 served at, 315-336. 

 Sierras, Birds observed in, 305-310. 



Extent of, 255. 



Sink, Salton, Altitude of, 253. 

 Skimmer, Actions of, when colony 

 is approached 66. 



Arrival of,on Virginia coast, 66. 



Attacking, 66. 



Bill of, 72, 73. 



Date of laying of, 66. 



Eggs of, 68. 



Feeding habits of, 73, 74. 



Skimmer, Incubating habits of, 64. 

 Nest of, 68, 70. 

 Nest of, robbed, 66. 

 Notes of, 66, 70, 71. 

 Number of eggs laid by, 64. 

 on Cobb's Island, 63, 64. 

 removes egg-shell, 71. 

 Young, Bill of, 73. 

 Young of, difficult to see, 68. 

 Young, Food of, 72. 

 Young, Obedience of, 68. 

 Skylark, Abundance of, 414. 



Song of. 397. 

 "Slabsides," 21. 

 Smith, E. W., Birds mounted by, 



111. 



Solitaire, Townsend's, Song of, in 

 Canadian Rockies, 352. 



Song of, in Sierras, 310. 

 Song of birds, to be measured by 

 association, 391. 



stimulated by song, 318. 

 Sparrow, House, in competition 



with native species, 41. 

 in England, 398, 414. 

 Sparrow, Intermediate White, 



crowned, Song of, 352. 

 Sparrow, Ipswich, on SaJble Island, 



37. 



Sparrow, Nelson's, at Shoal Lake, 

 322. 



Song of, 22. 



Sparrow, Savanna, possible main- 

 land representative of Ipswich 

 Sparrow, 37. 



Sparrow, Song, Geographic varia- 

 tions of, 254, 257. 

 Sparrow, Thick-billed Fox, in the 



Sierras, 306. 



Spoonbill, Roseate, formerly on 

 Pelican Island, 83. 

 in Cuthbert Rookery, 135, 136, 



141, 144, 146. 

 Nest of, 142, 145. 

 Sportsmen preserving birds, 134. 

 Squirrel, Red, Absence of, on Gard- 

 iner's Island, 39. 



Stilt, Black-necked, Actions of, 289. 

 in San Joaquin Valley, 288. 

 Young of, 289. 



Storm in Bahamas, 167, 202. 

 Summerlin, Aden, 113. 



