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INDEX. 



Affectionate disposition of the Ostrich ; ii. 113. 



Stork and Crane; ii: 137. 



Age of Goldfinches ; ii. 14. 



Air Cells in birds, use of; i. 39, 62, 65. 



Albatross lives almost always on the wing ; i. 96. 



wandering, habits of the; ii. 247. 



American, South, Goat-Sucker described; ii. 65. 



Anastomus or open-beak; ii. 144. 



Anis; ii. 75. 



Annual return of birds to the South Stack; ii. 237. 



Assemblage of Crows and other birds ; i. 238. 



Auhinga, or Darter ; ii. 220. 



Attachment of birds to men and animals; ii. 178. 



Avoset, beak of the; ii. 151. 



Barn-Owl, habits of the; i. 183, 187. 



Bell-Bird; i. 71. 



Benefits derived from Rooks ; i. 246. 



and in juries by small birds; ii. 25. 



Bird-catchers employ Owls; i. 190. 



Birds, their situation in the natural division of the animal 



kingdom; i. 6. 



Bittern, light in the breast of; ii. 133. 

 Blackbird crowing like a Cock ; i. 68. 

 Bones of birds; i. 38. 

 Box, feeding, for Pheasants ; ii. 98. 

 Breathing; i. 62. 

 Breast-bone; i. 42. 

 light hi that of an American Bittern; ii. 133. 



