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INDEX 



Belenogaster rufipennis, 217 



Bendire, Major, 58, 227 



Captain, 96 



Benson, Lieutenant, 227 



Birds, their taste for the beauti- 

 ful, 7 ; their inteUigence as 

 compared with their instinct, 

 pp. 9 to 18, 50 ; their other 

 faculties, 19 ; their adapta- 

 bility, 80 ; their power of 

 mimicry, 204 



Birds, Annexers, 46 



Birds, British Museum Calalogue 

 of, 126 



Bird, Doctor, 205 



Birds, Frigate, 148 



Birds, Game, 72 



Bird, Humming, 7, 25, 161, 162, 

 167, 168 



Birds, Mound, 126, 132 



Bird, Oil, 103, 104 



Birds of Paradise, 174, 215 



Birds, Parasite, .52 



Birds of Prey, 47 



Bird, Tailor, 23 



Birds, Tropic, 43, 148 



Birds, Tyrant, 71 



Birds, Web-footed, 209 



Birds, Wren-like, 203 



Bitterns, 144, 145 



Bittern, American, 145 



Bittern, Little, 145 



Blackbird, 16, 46, 55, 188, 195 



Blackcap, 26, 190 



Black Woodpecker, 49 



Boletus, 166 



Botaurus lentiginosus, 145 



Botaurus minutus, 145 



Bower-Birds, 7, 176 



Bower- bird. Great, 176 



British avifauna, 225 



British Birds, a History of , hy C 

 Dixon, 189 



Broad-bills, 213 



Bucerotidse, X17 



Bucorvus abyssinicus, 118 



Buffel-headed Duck, 82 



Bulbuls, 196, 198 



Bulbul, Blyth's, 197 



Bulbul, Finch-billed, 197 



Bulbul, Olive, 198 



Bulbul, Striated Green, 196 

 Bullfinch, 62, 180, 182 

 Bulweria columbina, 108 

 Bunting, 29, 46, 125, 180, 182 

 Bunting, House, 112 

 Bunting, Snow, 32, 113, 114 

 Burchell's Lark-heeled Cuckoo, 



212 

 Burrowing Owl, 95, 97 

 Burrows, 246 

 Bush-Tit, 227 

 Bustards, 73 



Bustard-quail, Indian, 73 

 Bustard-quail, Little, 73 

 Buteo brachyurus, 49 

 Buteoninae, 159 

 Buzzards, 48, 67, 159 

 Buzzard, Honey, 48 



CiEREBID^, 178, 219 

 Calornis metallica, 259 

 Calypte costoe, 164 

 Campephagida;, 198, 205 

 Cape Wagtail, 32 

 Capitonidce, 119 

 Caprimulgi, 6& 

 Carpodacus, 182 

 Carythocichla striata, 196 

 Cassicus, 265 



Cassicus persicus, 263, 266 

 Cassidrix oryzivora, 267 

 Cassiques, 265, 267 

 Cassique, Brazilian, 266 

 Cassowaries, 42, 65 

 Cat-bird, 192 

 Catharista atrata (= American 



Black Vulture), 43 

 Catheturus catharai, 128 

 Centropus, 69, 212 

 Centropus burchelli, 212 

 Centropus nigrorufus, 212 

 Centropus rufipennis, 213 

 Centropus toulou, 69 

 Cephallepis delalandi, 165 

 Certhiidas, 184 

 Chaffinch, 6, 14, 16, 18, 24, 30, 64, 



180, i8t, 191, 205 

 Chaffinch, Common, 180 



