286 INDEX. 



Insects, quantity devoured by Swallows ; ii. 48. 



Rooks and Crows destructive to; i. 246. 



Instinct, nearly allied to reason, instance in Ducks; ii. 210. 

 Jabiru ; ii. 142. 

 Jacamars; ii. 75. 



Jacana walks on water-plants; ii. 128. 

 Jackdaws ; i. 252. 

 Jays, partial migration of; i. 102. 

 killed by Hawks ; i. 1C7. 



general character ; i. 255. 



Kingfisher ; ii. 70. 



Language of birds ; i. 73. 



Lapwing, food of the ; ii. 155. 



Larks ; ii. 28. 



Latirostres flat beaked; ii. 145. 



Laughing Gull, account of ; ii. 240. 



Leg-bones ; i. 45. 



Legs of Herons allure fish ; ii. 132. 



Levirostral light-billed ; ii. 83. 



Light on American Bittern's breast ; ii. 1 33. 



Linnets' affection for their young ; ii. 24. 



Magpies; i. 255. 



nurse young Ravens ; i. 259. 



Manakins ; ii. 28. 



Mate, birds choose new ones when the old one s die ; ii. 54, 220. 



Meetings of Crows and other birds ; i. 238 



Mice killed by a Hen ; ii. 95. 



Migration of Cuckoos ; ii. 75, 77. 



Storks and Cranes ; ii. 134, 135. 



Swallows ; ii. 45. 



queries respecting ; i. 101, 105. 



Mocking-Bird ; i. 69, 



Muscular power of the wing of a bird ; i. 85. 

 Music attracts Nightingales; ii. 38. 

 Narrow-beaked, Pressirostral ; ii. 119. 

 Nest, Blackbird's, by a rabbit's seaf; i. 210. 



