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Index 



feeding of, 215 

 saurita, 



feeding, 215 

 sir talis, 



feeding of, 216 

 Evolution, direction of, 

 scardafella, 31-33 



Falco sparverioides, 13 

 Fangs 



Serpents, 230, (figs. 94, 95), 230* 

 Farancia, 



eggs of, 223 



food of, 223 

 Fauna, 



Venezuela, Northeastern, 69, 70 

 Faxon, Walter, 



quoted on : 



robins, melanism of, 16 

 Feathers, 



Hylocichla mustalena, 21* 

 Feathers, tail, 



Scardafella, 25* 



Motmots, 141,* 141-149 

 Feeding, 



serpents, 197-238 

 methods of, 199, 200 

 Felis melas 



melanism, geographic, 14 

 Felis nigra (see "Felis onca") 

 Felis onca, 



melanism, geographic, 14 

 Felis pardus, 



melanism, geographic, 14 

 Fer-de-lance, (fig. 96), 232,* 327 

 Finch, chestnut-breasted, 15,* 17 

 Finch, yellow-rumped, 15,* 17 

 Flora 



Venezuela, Northeastern, 68, 69 

 Florida caerulea, 77 

 Fluvicola pica, 95 

 Flycatcher, 326 



Cayenne, 97 



Elania, Southern Yellow-bellied, 97 



gray Tody-, 96 



Helmeted Pygmy, 96 



streaked, 97 



coloring of, 97, 98 



Tody-, 96 



Tody-, spotted, 96 



Trinidad Kiskadee, 97 



White-headed Marsh, 95 



White Shouldered Ground, 95 



Yellow-green Broad-bill, 96 

 Formacariidce, 92, 327 



Orinoco group, 112 



Francolin (African Partridge), 

 colpocephalum spinosum parasite 

 of, 118 



Francolinu's, 263 



Fregata aguila, 79 



Frigate bird, 79 



Fringillidce, 101, 327 

 distribution, 

 Orinoco and New York, 111 



Fulmars (see also "Procellariiformes") 



Fulmar us, 



dichromatism of, 10, 11 



Gaboon Viper, (fig. 84), 208* 

 Galbula and Buccos, 



Orinoco group, 112 

 Galbula melanogenia, 327 

 Galbula, ruficauda, 89, 90 

 Galliformes, 72, 73 



distribution, 

 Orinoco and New York, 111 

 "Gallina del monte con los huavos 



azules," 71 

 Gallinago gallinago, 



dichromatism in, 9 

 Gallinago paraguaiae , 75 

 Gallinago sabinii, 



dichromatism in, 9 

 Galliperdix, 263 

 Gallus, 264, 284, 285 

 Gastritis, 



primates afFected with, 183, 184 

 Genera, 



classification of, 305-307 

 Gennaeus, 264, 277, 303-323 



affinis, 313 



albocristatus, 309, 311 



batemani, 313 



classification, method of, 306 



Cliflfordi, 313 



Cuvieri and oatesi, 319 



davisoni, 314 



distribution geographically, 307 



edwardsi, 310 



full species, 320 



granti, 313 



horsficldi, 309, 310, 311, 313, 314, 315 



hybrids, 320-323 



jonesi-ripponi, 318, 319 



leucomelanus, 309, 311 



lineatus, 309, 310, 311 



melauonotus, 309 



muthura, 311 



nisbetti, 313 



nycthemerus, 309, 310 



oatesi, 319 



obscurus, 314 



