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INDEX. 



Curlew, long-billed, 100, 102. 

 Cypress swatnp, 48. 



DAKOTA, 58. 



"Dead-limb bird," see Wood pewee. 

 Definitions, how to make them, 124. 

 Depressed bills, def., 103. 

 " Devil-diver," see Grebe. 

 Dichromatisin, def., 117. 

 Distribution, 155-162. 

 Diver, red-throated, 11. 



great northern, see Loon. 

 Dove, 112. See also Pigeon, domestic. 

 Drinking habits of birds, 175-178. 

 "Drumming" of ruffed grouse, 189. 

 Ducks, 57, 58, 95, 103. 



black, 25, 177. 



dusky, see Black. 



mallard, 15. 



wood, 6. 



See also Goosander, Merganser, and Scoter. 



EAGLE, 82, 88, 101. 

 Eastport (Maine), 23. 

 Egret, little white, 49, 129. 



reddish, 49, 117. 

 Emarginate, def., 78. 

 "Excalibur," 13. 

 Excised feet, def., 95. 

 Eyes of birds, 108-114. 



FALCON, Peale's, 17. 

 Families, def., 126. 

 Farallons (California), 80. 

 Feet of birds, 93-98. 

 Finch, purple, 176, 264. 



pine, see Linnet. 

 Fish-hawk, 98. 

 Fiske, John, quoted, 66, 171. 

 Flagg, Wilson, 258. 

 Flamingo, 52-55, 103. 

 Flicker, see Woodpecker. 

 Flight, 84-92. 



false analogies, 85-86. 



problems of, 85. 



starting, 88. 

 Florida, 48. 

 Flycatchers, 101, 116, 183, 184. 



Acadian, 186, 187. 



alder, 186, 187. 



great-crested, 186, 227. 



green-crested, see Acadian. 



least, 185, 187. 



olive-sided, 186, 187. 



yellow-bellied, 186, 187. 



Flycatchers, see also Chebec, Kingbird, Wood 



pewee, Phoebe. 

 Foes of bird-life, 10, 142. 

 Food of grouse, 195. 

 Forster, 201. 

 Franklin, Sir John, 202. 

 Frigate pelican, or Frigate bird, see Man-o'- 



war bird. 

 Fulmars, 3i*-41, 176. 



GALLINULE, 71. 



Gannet, 43-50, 60, 71, 129. 



"Gannet," see Wood ibis. 



Gape, def., 100. 



Gaspe Bay (St. Lawrence), 44. 



Geese, 95. 



Genus, def., 127. 



Goldfinch, 256, 264. 



Goosander, 113. 



Goshawk, 90, 92, 114. 



Crackle, boat-tailed, 49. 



bronzed, see Crow blackbird. 



purple, see Crow blackbird. 

 Grand Manan (Maine), 18, 45. 

 Grebe, 1-8, 59, 73, 139, 176. 



American eared, 5. 



horned, 5. 



pied-billed, 5. 

 Greely, Gen. Alonzo, 160. 

 "Grosbeak," see Egret, 129. 

 Grosbeak, cardinal, 153. 



pine, 131, 219-233, 243, 264. 

 Guillemot, 44. 



black, 19. 



pigeon, 30. 

 Gull, 141, 176. 



black-backed, 25. 



Bonaparte's, 20, 24, 28. 



Franklin's rosy, 28, 59. 



Heerman's, 28. 



herring, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 40. 



kittiwake, 24, 28, 177. 



laughing, 28. 



Western, 23, 28,31,40. 

 " Gull hawk," see Jaeger. 



HARE, 128. 



Hawk, 82, 92, 97, 98, 101, 102, 112, 116, 178, 

 200, 253. 



broad-winged, 180. 



Cooper's, 180, 181. 



pigeon, 181. 



red-tailed, 116. 



rough-legged, 116. 



sharp-shinned, 90, 179-182. 



sharp-shinned, foot of, 182. 



