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Index 



Legatus albicolhis, 327 



Lcgenorhynchus, 293 



"Le Hocco Brun de Mexique" (see 



"Hoatzin") 

 Leopard. 



coloration of, 14 

 Leopard, black, 



coloration of, 14 

 Lcptinoiarsa, 



melanism, artificial, 8 

 Leptognatlms, 327 

 Lcptoptila verve auxi, 73 

 Leiicophoyx candidissima, 77 

 Leucopternis albicollis, 81 

 Light, 



serpents, 



fpedins; habits affected by, 197 

 Limpkin, southern, 75 

 Liopeltis, 



coloration of, 222 



food of, 223 

 Lipeurus, 118 



absitus (new), 119, 120,* 120, 121 

 Lifhosiidae, 127, 128 

 Lizards, 



Amphisibcenidac , 

 constricting power of, 200, 201 

 Loat, W. L. S., 



quoted on : 



Hoatzin, odor of, 62 

 Lobiophasis, 264 

 Lobiophasis bulweri, 273, 274 

 Loco (see "Hoatzin") 

 Lophophorus, 263, 270 



impcyaiius, 271 



Ihuysii, 270 



sclateri, 270, 271 



tail-feathers, 



order of moulting, 264 

 Lophura, 264, 272, 273 



distribution geographically, 307 

 Loucheres, 69 

 L^cognathus, 



'food of, 225 

 Lyddecker, Richard, 



quoted on : 



Shark, whale, 365 



M 



Macalla pallidouiedia (new species), 

 133, 136* 



MacCallum, G. A. (M.D.), 

 Ectoparasitic Trematodes, new spe- 

 cies of, 393-410 



Macaw, 

 Blue-and-yellow, 82 

 Red-bellied, 82 

 Macrorhinus angustirostris, (Gill), 159 

 skull of, 171, 172 



illustration fig. 71 (following 

 page 173) 

 Macrorhinus leoninus, 

 skull of, 171, 172 



illustration fig. 72 (following 

 page 173) 

 Mallophaga, 53 



from the Hoatzin, 171-121 

 Mammals, 

 Canis. 3 



coloring affected by climate, 3 

 coloring affected by climate, 3, 4 

 Orinoco, 113 

 Primates, 175-186 

 Sciurus, 



coloring affected by climate, 3 

 Venezuela, Northeastern, 70 

 Manacus candei (Parzudaki), 335 

 Manacus manacus manacus, 94 

 Manakin, Golden-headed, 94 

 Manakin, White-breasted, 94 

 Mangrove Forest, 68-70 



flora and fauna, 68, 69 

 Marmosa, 327 

 Martin, 70 



gray-breasted, 98 

 Megalopygidac, 137 

 Megarynchus pitangua pitangua, 98 

 Melanerpes terricolor, 91 

 Melanism, 



experiments in, 



Hylocichla mustalena, 18, 19 

 Scardafella, 21-38 

 Zonotrichia albicollis, 19-21 

 Melanism, 



Mammalia, 14, 15 

 Melanism, sporadic, 15-18 

 Melanopcrdix, 263 

 Melo'spiza, 3 



climatic effect upon, 3 

 Merganetta columbiana, 251 

 Mergarhynchus pitangua, 327 

 Meyer and Wiglesworth, 

 quoted on : 



Parrot, Racket-tailed, 144, 145 

 Mexican Jacana. 329 

 Mexican Rice Grackle, 338 (fig. 113, 



114, 338,* 339 

 Micristodus punctatus Gill, 367 

 Microcotylidae, 396 

 Mimidae, 99 

 distribution, 



Orinoco and New York, 111 



