328 INDEX. 



Muscicapa nnndola, A. 130 

 JMiisi-icdpii. olivnc.cn, A. 27i), 353 

 Muscicapid*. F. 181 

 Mu-ical ear according to Le Cat, 



F. 51 



Mygalvke. A. 90 

 Ali/iothera cantatrix, Bartrara, A. 



245 



Myiothera cucullata, Wilson, A. 246 

 Mi/iotlicra ubsoleta, Bonaparte, A. 



245 



Myrmeleon, F. 167 

 Myrmecophagce, Linn., F. 92; II. 



229 

 Myrmica rubra, Latreille, A. 67 



Nandu, F. 131 ; gizzard and car- 

 diac cavity, showing the gastric 

 -lands, F. 131, Jig. 



Natatorex, Illiger, F. 73 



Natural history, a taste for requires 

 cultivation, A. 2 



Natural notes of alarm, H. 247 



Nautilidce, A. 17 



Neiedas elegans, Curtis, F. 212 



Nerves in Cochlea and semicircular 

 canals, distribution of, F. 3S,Jig. 



Nest of an American mocking-bird 

 in an aviary, A. 203 



Nest, anomalous, lined with fea- 

 thers, A. 802 



Nest and eggs of an ivory-billed 

 woodpecker found in the centre 

 of a growing tree, A. 155 



Nest of bald eagle, A. 169; of black- 

 bird, A. 130; of bullfinch, A. 201; 

 of /i chaffinch on a ship's mast, 

 A. 264; of chiff-chaff, A. 313; of 

 the crow, A.215 ; of Indian spar- 

 row said to be lighted with glow- 

 worms, A. 250 ; of insect-eating 

 birds, selection of, A. 379; of 

 missel thrush, A. 208 ; of pensile 

 grosbeak, A. 225 ; of a raven at 

 Selborne, A. 214; of reed- warb- 

 ler, A. 233; of red-headed wood- 

 pecker assailed by the black 

 snake, A. 151; of rock -dove, 

 A. 160; of sedge-bird, A. 235; 

 of song -thrush built on a 

 harrow, A. 128; of tchitrec, ac- 

 cording to Vaillant, A. 252; of 

 tchitrec, illustrated from nest of 

 yellow-hammer, A. 254; of Wash- 

 ington eagle, A. 179 



Nestling, anomalous mode of, 78 



Nests destroyed by rains, A. 105; 

 in which the cuckoo lays, A. 373 ; 

 not. necessarily hollow, 

 of the inarch and house-wren, A. 

 312. 



New-laid egg, with part of the shell 



removed, H. HQ,Jig. 

 Newton, Sir Isaac, his opinion on 



instinct, F. 29? 

 Nicety as to food in some birds, F. 



83 

 Night-heron, H. \5,jig.', pectinated 



claw of, H. 15, Jig. 

 Nightingales of the North and 



South, H. 294; song, characters 



of, H. 284; tongue of, H. 237 

 Night-jar, A. 360,^.; of Carolina. 



H. 16, Jig.; foot of, H. 17, fig,; 



supposed parasite habits of, A. 



356 



Night-song birds, H. 373 

 Nocturnal birds, vision of, F. 23 

 Numenius arqunta, Latham, F. 105 

 Nut-hatch, A. 92,jfa/.; barricade of, 



A. 91 ; bill of, worn away by 



hewing, A. 137; endeavours of 



one to escape from a cage, A. 136 

 Nycticoraa cosrulea, A. 192 

 JVyctieoriut Europcaus, A. 351 j H. 



Nycticorax Germanis, Willughbv, 

 A. 190 



Observation and inattention con- 

 trasted, A. 1 



Octogennriam, II. 347 



(Edicnemus crepitans, Temminck, 

 H. 218; F. 23 



(Esophagus, F. 159, 161, 162 



Onucrotu/us pelicanus, Aldrovand, 

 F. 85 



Operculum, F. 47, 205 



Oriolus Baltimorus, H. 302 



Ornithology, the study of, confirm- 

 atory of the existence and per- 

 fections of the Deity, F. 309 



Ornithorhynchus paradozus, F. 196, 

 Jig. 



Orpheus polyglottus, Swainson, A. 

 202,204 



Ortygomctra crex, Fleming, F. 220 ; 

 II. 43 



Ortyx Virginianus, A. 322 



Onjctes nasicornis, Illiger, II. 129. 



Os hy oides, F. 95 



Osprey, 181 ; breeding colonies of, 

 A. 182 ; fishing of, F. 167 ; vision 

 of, F. 5 



Ossiculum auditus, F. 47 



Ostrich, F. 132; young ones at 

 Podor, F. 223 ; cardiac cavity and 

 gizzard of, F. 112, Jig. ; carrying 

 a negro, F. 223, Jig.\ running of, 

 F. 22'J; tongue and head of, F. 



s(;,/y. 

 OHr. brachyotns, Fleming, II. 200 



Otis minor, F, US 



