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INDEX 



Blue-headed, 500 ; Grey, 500 ; Pied, 



354, 500, 501 ; White, 500 ; Yellow, 



499, 500, 501 

 Walghvogel, 329 

 Wallace, on Geographical Distribution, 15 



f. ; on Birds of Paradise, 543 n., 550 ; 



on Humming-birds, 432 

 Wallace's Line, 16, 564 

 Walpole, on Didunculus, 332 

 Warbler, 513 ; habits, 517 f. ; American, 



573 f.; Black-cap, 51 7; Black-and-white, 



574; Garden-, 517; Grasshopper-, 517, 



518; Eeed-, 354, 517; Savi's, 518; 



Sedge-, 517; Willow-, 517; Wood-, 



517 



Warrior, 437 

 Water-Cock, 249 

 Water-hen ( = Moor-hen) loses wing-quills 



simultaneously, 4 n. 

 Waterton, on Humming-birds, 432 

 Wattle-bird, 566 

 Wavy, 133 

 Wax-bill, 577, 578 

 Wax-like tips to feathers, 3 

 Waxwing, 529 f., 530 

 Weaver-bird, 368, 576 f., 577; habits, 



578 f. 

 Webs, of feathers, 2 ; of toes, 10; in Al- 



cidae, 315 ; in Anatidae, 112 ; in 



Colymbidae and Podicipedidae, 49 ; 



in Laridae, 301 ; in Limicolae, 269 ; 



in Steganopodes, 71 

 Weka, 243, 245, 247 

 Whale-bird, 66 

 Whale-head, 93 

 Whaup, 287 

 Wheatear, 511, 516 

 Whew, 126 

 Whimbrel, 288 f. 

 Whinchat, 511, 516 

 Whip-poor- Will, 417 

 Whip-Tom-Kelly, 536 

 White colour in Birds, its nature, 3 n. 

 White, on Furnarius, 486 

 White Crow, 145 

 White-eye, 568 

 White-throat, 517 

 Whitmee, on Didunculus, 332 

 Whooper, 135 

 Whymper, on Condor, 138 

 Wideawake Fair, 312 

 Widow-bird, 577 

 Wigeon see Duck 

 Willet, 284 

 Willock, 319 

 Wilson, A., on Humming-birds, 432 ; on 



Passenger Pigeon, 342 

 Wilson, S. B., and Evans, on Drepanididae, 



562 n. ; on Meliphagidae, 568 n. 

 Wind-hover, 148, 175 

 Windpipe, use and formation, 13 

 Wing, 8 



Wing-coverts, 20 



Wing-quills see Quills 



Wing-spurs, 9 



Wire-bird, 274 



Wires, of Birds of Paradise, 3, 545 f. 



Witthoos, figure of Didus borbonicus, 

 330 



Woodcock, 289 f., 290 ; bill, 11 



Wood-Hen, 247 



Wood-Ibis, 70, 97 



Wood-Mason, on Rhynchaea, 292 n. 



Woodpecker, 149, 445, 457 f. ; bill, 12 ; 

 habits, 458 f. ; vertebra, 6 ; Black, 

 458, 464 ; Californian, 461 ; Great 

 Black, 463 ; Great Spotted, 462, 463 ; 

 Green, 460 ; Ivory-billed, 463 ; Lesser 

 Spotted, 462, 462 ; Pileated, 463 : 

 Spotted, 458, 461 



Wood-Swallow, 530 f. 



Wren, 426, 519, 521 f., 521 ; Bush-, 472; 

 Rock-, 472 



Wrist, 8 



Wry-bill, 274, 274 



Wryneck, 445, 457, 459, 464 f., 465 



Xanthocephalus, 581 



Xanthochroism, 4 n. 



Xanthocorys, 499 



Xantholaema haematocephala, 449 



Xanthomelus, 550 ; X. aureus, 548 



Xanthomixis, 503 



Xanthura luxuosa, 554 



Xema, 301 ; X.furcatum, 310 ; X. sabinii, 



304, 310 

 Xenerpestes, 484 

 Xenicidae, 469, 472 

 Xenicus, 472 ; X. gilviventris, 472 ; X. 



longipes, 472 

 Xenocichla, 505 

 Xenopipo atronitens, 478 

 Xenopirostris, 531, 533 ; X. polleni, 



mimicry, 533 

 Xenops, 484, 487 

 Xenopsaris, 482 

 Xenorhynchus, fossil, 99 ; X. australis, 



98 



Xerophila, 539, 540 

 Xipholena, 480 ; X. pompadora, 480 

 Xiphorhamphus, 502, 504 

 Xiphorhynchus, 484, 487 



Yaffle, 460 



Yarrell's British Birds, 212 n., 285 n. 



Yellow colour in Birds, its nature, 3 n. 



Yellow Hammer, 584 



Yellowshank, 283 f. 



Yelper, 278 



Young, moult late, 4 ; in Turdinae and 



Sylviinae, 513 ; of Megapodiidae fly 



early, 191 



Zandostomus, 351 



