INDEX. 



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of birds, 133; Why birds sing, 5, 

 139. 



Bird-songs. (See also Bird-song. 

 Birds. Imitation. Music. Night- 

 songs. Notations. Songs.) Are 

 not music, 123; Author's collection 

 of, when begun, v; Author's mode 

 of taking, 161; Big-tree thrush and 

 wood thrush, 162 ; Flagg, W. On 

 copying of, 114; Fowler, W. W. 

 Bird-songs cannot be copied, 114; 

 Golz, Dr. Bird-songs can be copied, 

 115; Harting, J. E. Reproducing 

 of, 215; Illustrations of, in refuta- 

 tion of Wm. Pole, 123. 



Birds. (See also Bird-song. Bird- 

 songs. Borrowing from the birds. 

 Song-birds.) Dancing of, 136; 

 Imported songsters, 182; Jenner, 

 Dr. Signs from, 171; Legend of 

 Saint Francis d'Assisi, 170; Plu- 

 mage of, in Australia, 210 ; Prices 

 of imported singing-birds, 184. 



Birmingham, J., 230. 



Bishop. Buffon, G. L. L., comte de. 

 Organist same as, 186 ; Le Page du 

 Pratz, ( ), 186. 



Black-billed cuckoo. See Cuckoo (coc- 

 cygus erythrophthalmus). 



Blackbird (turdus merula), 176, 180; 

 Notations : Gardiner, W., 211, Haw- 

 kins, Sir J., 217, Smee, A., 222; 

 Smee, A., 223. 



Blackcap, 180; Harting, J. E. Nota- 

 tion, 215. 



Black -capped titmouse. See Chickadee 

 (parus atricapillus). 



Black-throated green warbler. See 

 Warbler (dendroica virens). 



Blackwall, J , 175, 230. 



Blake, G. Loon, 200. 



Blanchard, E., 140, 230. 



Blue Jay. Allen, J. A., 168. 



Bluebird (sia lia sialis) . ( See also Cat- 

 bird, 52.) Minot, H. D., 144; Nel- 

 son, E. W., 145; Notations, 11; 

 Nuttall, T., 145. 



Bob White. See Quail. 



Bobolink (dolichonyx oryzivorvs), 82, 



175, 191; Cheney, S. P. Song can- 

 not be copied, 7, 115 ; Difference be- 

 tween song of old and young, 26 ; 

 Hayward, Miss C. A., 194 ; In the 

 role of a canary, 193; Minot, H. D., 

 193; Notations, 83; Wilson, Dr. A., 

 193. 



Bombay times (newspaper), 127. 



Bonasa umbellus. See Ruffed grouse. 



Bonnier, P., 230. 



Booming. Night-hawk, 196. 



Borrowing from the birds. Chewink, 

 45; Kingsley, Rev. C., 134; Old 

 Dan Tucker borrowed from the hens, 

 108; Rooster, 105. 



Boyle, Mrs. E. V. (G.), 230. 



Brand, J., 171, 231. 



Brehm, A. C., vii, 231. 



Brehm and Hausmann, 231. 



Brewster, W., 241; Drumming of par- 

 tridge, 197. 



Brimley, C. S., 231. 



British singing-birds. Barrington's 

 table of comparative merit of, 180. 



Broderip, W. J., 231 ; Song-birds 

 (quoted from D. Barrington), 121. 



Brown mocker. See Thrush (harpo- 

 rhynchus rufus). 



Brown thrasher. See Thrush (karpo- 

 rhynchus rufus). 



Brown thrush. See Thrush (harpo- 

 rhynchus rufus). 



Browning, R. Song thrush (poem), 

 223. 



Bubo Virginianus. See Great horned 

 owl. 



Buckland, F., 126, 140, 231. 



Buffon, G. L. L., comte de, 216, 231; 

 Bishop same as organist, 186 ; Or- 

 ganist, 186. 



Buist, Dr., 231; Musical fishes, 126. 



Bull. Notations, 120, 206. 



Bullfinch, 133; Austin, G. L., 175. 



Bumble-bee. Hinrichs,A. Notations, 

 226. 



Burgh, A., 231; Birds are instinctive 

 musicians, 135. 



Burritt, E., 231. 



Burroughs, J., 152, 166, 231, 241; 



