282 INDEX. 



Breeding Pheasant with poultry ; ii. 95. 

 Bullfinches how taught to pipe ; ii. 16. 

 Burrowing Owl described; i. 191. 

 Bustards taken by Hawks; i. 149. 



courage of the ; ii. 94. 



Butcher-Bird, habits of the; i. 194. 



Canaries, history of, and trade in; ii. 15. 



Cancroma, or Boat-bill; ii. 145. 



Caprhnulgus, Goat-Sucker; ii. 62. 



Carrier- Pigeon, its rapid flight, and how used ; i. 92 ; ii. 88. 



Cassowary; ii. 116. 



Catching Wood-Pigeons, mode of; ii. 89. 



Cat and Pigeon, anecdote of; ii. 92. 



Caverns filled with Swallows' eatable nests ; ii. 56. 



Certhia, or Tree-Creeper ; ii. 68. 



Chavana Fidele, capacity for filling itself with air; i. 64. 



Children, instances of, carried off by Eagles; i. 119. 



Chough, or red-legged Crow ; i. 252. 



Cinereous Crow, depredations of the ; i. 254. 



Classification, Tables of; i. 8. 



Claw of the Goat-Sucker, why toothed ; ii. 64. 



serrated, of the Heron; ii. 131. 



Cock, barn-door, courage of; ii. 92. 

 Cold, capacity of birds for enduring severe ; i. 55. 

 Colour of plumage, changes in; i. 82. 

 Condor, contest with a man ; i. 142. 

 Constancy of Magpies and other birds; ii. 139. 

 Consumption of food by small birds ; ii. 26. 

 Coots, nest of; ii. 124. 

 Cormorant, habits of; ii. 218. 



weight of; ii. 220. 



where differing from a Frigate-Bird ; ii. 223. 



Corn-Crake; ii. 129. 



found dormant ; ii. 43. 



Cotinga; i. 214. 



Courage of Swallows ; ii. 52. 



