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INDEX. 



149; opened thirty- six hours after 

 incubation, II. 150 ; opened four 

 days after incubation, H. 151 ; as 

 it appears live days after incuba- 

 tion, H. 152; six days after incu- 

 bation, H. 153; seven days after 

 incubation, H. 154; eight days 

 after incubation, H. 154; nine 

 days after incubatiou, H. 155; 

 same egg turned more to its right 

 side, H. 155; ten days after incu- 

 bation, H. 156; embryo chick 

 taken from preceding egg, H. 

 157; egg as it appears fourteen 

 days after incubation, H. 158; 

 same egg, with external half of 

 the vesicle removed, H. 158; em- 

 bryo of same egg, H. 159; egg as 

 it appears eighteen days after in- 

 cubation, H. 160 ; same egg, with 

 part of the vesicle removed, H. 

 160; embryo chick, opened to 

 show absorption of yolk, H. 161; 

 egg as it appears twenty days 

 after incubation, II. 162 ; position 

 of chick in the egg, H. 164, 165; 

 eggs fractured by the included 

 chick, II. 170; positions of the 

 shell after the escape of the chick, 

 H.171. 



Eggs, hatching of, Egyptian oven 

 for, II. 135; grounu-plan of, H. 

 136; transverse section and ele- 

 vation of, H. 137; transverse 

 section and perspective elevation 

 of, H. 138; egg-frame, II. 142; 

 hatching eggs in dung, H. 143; 

 hatching-room over the bake- 

 house ovens of the Priory of 

 L'Entant Jesus at Paris, II. 144 



Falcon chanting falcon, II. 307 

 Feet of water-birds, F. 227 

 Finger, nerves of the, F. 192 

 Flamingo, A. 119; head and tongue 



of the, F. 96 

 Fox, skull of the, F. 46 



Gizzard cardiac cavity and giz- 

 zard of the ostrich, F. 1 12 ; car- 

 diac cavity and gizzard of the 

 ostrich opened, F. 113; gizzard of 

 a turkey, F. 117; gizzard of a 

 .swan, P. 128; cardiac cavity and 

 gizzard of the nandu, F. 131; 

 the same opened, F. 131; gizzard 

 of the solan goose opened, F. 158; 

 gizzard and cardiac cavity of the 



MM II!"\V (OKMH'd, J<\ 171 



Glow-wonn,larva of, using its clean- 

 ing instrument, II. 25; grub of, 

 devouring a snail, II. 26 



Goldfinch, nest of the, A. 269 

 Goose bernacle or claik goose, H. 



363 



Greenfinch, nest of the, A. 244 

 Grosbeak pine grosbeak, or haw- 

 finch, H. 299; nests of the pen- 

 sile grosbeak, A. 225 ; of the soci- 

 able grosbeak, A. 229 

 Grouse ruffled grouse, II. 92; pin- 

 nated grouse, in the act of strut- 

 ting, H. 96 



Hairs of the bat, the mole, and the 

 hamster mouse, A. 267 



Hand, muscles of the, F. 191 



Hare, skull of the, F. 43 



Hatching-house, Reaumur's stove, 

 H. 187 



Hay bird, nest of the, A. 315 



Heron, A. 87; night-heron, H. 15; 

 pectinated claw of the night- 

 heron, H. 17; demoiselle heron, 

 F. 203 



Humming bird red-throated hum- 

 ming bird, A. 277; nest of the 

 red-throated humming bird, A. 

 278 ; humming birds, F. 175 



Jacana walking on the leaves of the 



water-lily, F. 231 

 Jack snipe. H. 50 

 Jay, nest of the, A. 196; American 



blue jay, A. 200 



Kentucky Warbler, A. 86 

 Kilda, St., fowlers of, H. 377 

 Kingfisher, A. 47; belted king- 

 fisher, A. 49 



Macaw portion of the beak of the 

 blue macaw, F. 99; teeth of the 

 blue macaw, F. 100; palate of the 

 blue macaw, F. 104 



Magpie, egg of the, H. 130 ; nest of 

 the, A. 329 



Martin purple martins building iu 

 a gourd, A. 343 



Maryland yellow -throat, female, and 

 cow-bird, A. 383 



Mocking bird, A. 204 



Mothers, artificial, II. 184; im- 

 proved one, II. 185; one for water 

 fowls, II. 188 



Nest of the butcher bird, A. 4; of 

 the redbreast, A. 83; of the cliff 

 swallow, A. 98 ; of the window 

 swallow, A. 109; of the song 

 thrush, A. 127; of the blackbird, 

 A. J30; of a stork at Perscpolis, 

 A. 193; of the jay, A. 196; r ofthe 

 bullfinch, A. 202; of the misse 



