INDEX 



Activities of children, 286. 



American Ornithologists' Union, 

 175. 



Application of lessons, 302. 



Arithmetic and bird-study, 298. 



Audubon classes, junior, 182-84, 

 292. 



Audubon food-house, 255. 



Audubon Magazine, 175. 



Audubon Societies, National Asso- 

 ciation of, bird sanctuaries, 185; 

 classes of membership, 177; de- 

 partment of applied ornithology, 

 184; egret-protection, 179; field 

 agents, 184; formation of, 176; 

 junior Audubon classes, 182-84; 

 legislation, 178-79; lesson on. 

 313-14; needs of, 185; publica- 

 tions of, 180-81 ; summer courses 

 in bird-study, 184; warden work, 

 179. 



Audubon Societies, State, 186. 



Audubon Society, first, 174-75. 



Auk, great, 117. 



Barrows, Prof. Walter B., 153. 



Baynes, Ernest Harold, 9, 83, 98, 

 155. 209, 217, 231, 256, 263. 



Beneficial birds, 110, 112. 



Berlepsch, Baron von, 228. 



Bird clubs; activities of, 216-17; for 

 children, 292; number of, 217. 



Bird day, 189, 296. 



Bird-Lore, 58, 123, 140, 151, 180, 

 181. 



Bird-study, attractions of, 48 ; 

 equipment for, 50; how to study, 

 55; what to study, 56: when to 

 study, 54; where to study, 53. 



Blackbird, crow (grackle), dates of 

 nesting and migration, 62; eco- 

 nomic status of, 112; grain eaten 

 by, 101; nest-robber, 108; num- 



ber and kinds of insects eaten by, 

 74; table of food, 115; weed seeds 

 eaten by, 87, 88. 



Blackbird, red-winged, dates of 

 migration and nesting, 62; eco- 

 nomic status of, 112; feeding 

 young, 36; food of, 115; grain 

 eaten by, 101; nest of, 28; num- 

 ber of insects eaten by, 74; sexual 

 differences in color, 46; song of, 

 16; weed seeds eaten by, 87. 



Bluebird, attacked by English 

 sparrow, 153; dates of migration 

 and nesting, 62; destruction in 

 winter, 133; economic status of, 

 112; food of, 115; killed by cats, 

 140; kinds of insects eaten by, 

 74; lesson on. 310; nesting-box 

 for, 243; number of broods of, 

 32; number in United States, 

 126; plumage of nestlings, 45; 

 sexual differences in color, 46; 

 song of, 23; table of nesting- 

 habits, 35. 



Bobolink, change in plumage of, 

 45 ; dates of migration and nest- 

 ing, 62; economic status of, 112; 

 harm done in rice-fields by, 102- 

 03; killed in South Carolina, 168; 

 location of nest, 27; migration- 

 route of, 8; song of, 23; winter 

 home of, 6. 



Bob-white, call of, 22; date of nest- 

 ing, 61; destruction in winter, 

 132-33; economic status of, 113; 

 food of, 115; in captivity, 65; in- 

 sects eaten by, 74, 75, 83; killed 

 in Louisiana and Alabama, 168; 

 nest of, 27; number killed by 

 cats, 140; rearing of, 273; weed 

 seeds eaten by. 87, 88. 



Bond, Frank, 158. 



Bounties, 93. 



