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Index to



Blue-bird, American, 154

,, Bonnet Parrakeet, 258, 289

,, -breasted Waxbill, 253

,, -cheeked Barbet, 323

,, -headed Wagtail, 272

,, Robin, 237, 379

,, -shouldered Tanager, 179

„ Tanager, 375

„ 'fit, 33 , 167, 273


,, -winged Grass Parrakeet, 186, 249

,, ,, Green Bulbul, 142


,, ,, Parrakeet, 34


,, ,, Warbler, no


,, Whistling Thrush, 228

Bobolink, 158

Bonham’s Partridge, 264

Bornean Fireback Pheasants, 286

Bottle Tit, 167


Bourke’s Parrakeet, i6r, 203, 207, 217,


239, 257


,, ,, and other rare


Australian Birds, 203

Bovver-bird, Satin, 114, 158

Bramblefinch-Chaffinch Hybrid, 141

Breeding Francolins, 345


,, Gray’s Bare-throated


Francolin, 352


„ Hybrid Ouzels, On, 301


,, in Captivity of the Red-backed


Shrike, On the, 330

,, of Hey’s Rock-Partridge, The,


263


,, ,, Pterocles exusfus, The, 64


,, ,, the Australian Swamp-


Quail, 363


,, ,, the Ruficauda, The, 106


,, ,, Song-Sparrows, The, 331


,, ,, Turnix varia , Oil the, 295


,, Passerine Parrotlets, 34


,, Pileated Finches, 341


,, Results during the past


Summer, 80


,, Turnix lepurana in German


Bird-rooms, On, 217

,, Turnix nigricollis in German


Birdrooms, On, 195

,, White-throated Finch, 347


British Wagtails in Cage and Aviary, 271

Broad-tails, 207

Bronze-wing, 114


,, ,, Uoves, 274


,, ,, Pigeon, 131, 164, 187, 245


,, -winged Mannikin, 40

Brotogerys, 320


,, jugularis , 320


,, tin, 141, 320


,, tuipara , 320


,, virescens , 320


,, Parrakeets, The, 320

Brown-headed Bunting, 72

Brown Mynah, 84

,, Pelican, 284

,, -throated Conure, 341

Brush Bronzewing Pigeon, 42

,, Turkey. 43, 83

,, ,, Nesting Habits of, 83


Bubulcus lucidus , 312

Budgerigar, 35, 47, 80, 161, 240, 292

„ Yellow, 35, 257


Buff-backed Heron, 312

Bulbul, Black-fronted, 252


,, Blue-winged Green, 142

,, Chinese, 154


,, Persian, 154


,, Red-vented, 154, 252

,, Seychelles, 74

,, White-eared, 154

Bullfinch, 30, 124, 155, 167, 231


,, Desert Trumpeter, 155, 318

Bunting, Brown-headed, 72



Subjects.



Bunting,’Cape, 253

„ Corn, 95


,, Himalayan, Black-crested, 72


,, I.apland, 141, 331


,, Reed, 95, 96, 332


Buntings, 273, 367

Bush-creepers, 184

Bustard Quails, 300

Butcher-bird, 44

Butorides virescens, in



c.


Cabalus modestus, 213

Caccabis, 264

Cactus Conures, 278

Californian Quail,


_ . 133. 266, 269, 287, 340, 345


Callipepla, 163


,, califbi nica, 163


,, gambeli, 163


Calliste, 179


,, melanonota, 83, 142

Cambayan Turtle-Dove, 211

Canada Geese, 129

Canadian Grosbeak, 117

Canaries, 372


,, rearing young Chaffinch, 84

Canary, 43, 81, 154, 210

,, " Cape, 253

,, -winged Parrakeet, 320

,, Wild, 380

Cape Bunting, 253

,, Canaries, 253

,, Eagle-Owl, 206, 228

,, Pigeon, 285


,, Pochard, 253


,, Sparrow, 251


,, Turtle Dove, 251


Caprimulgus europceus, 137

Cardinal, 43


,, Green, 156


,, Grey, 156


,, Red-crested, 81


,, Virginian, 156, 237, 293, 318


Cardinals, 141

Carduelis caniceps, 24


,, carduelis, 236, 305


,, elegans, 21, 167


Carpodacus erythrinus, 155

Carpophaga insularis, 42, 375

Cassell’s “ Canaries and Cage-Birds,”


259, 288


Catamenia analis, 171

Catheturus lathami, 43

Certhia fa m iliaris, 168

Certhicla chloropygia, 375

Ceryle alcyon, 160

Chaffinch, 43, 85, 155, 167, 379

,, 1'eydean, 155

Chaffinches, 306

Ckalcopsittacus ater, 147

Chamcepelia passerina, 162

,, talpacoti, 234

Change of colour at moult, 291


,, ,, habits in birds under new


conditions, 115

Chat, Familiar, 252

,, Pied Bush-, 367

Chats, 152, 164, 224

Cheluion nrbica , 167

Chera progne, 253

Cherry Finch, 41, 157

Chestnut Finch, 204


,, -bellied Rock-Thrushes, 367


,, -breasted Finch, 217


Cheverel, 23


,, Bastard, 23



