THE OOLOGIST. 



INDEX to VOLUME 11. 



TITLE. 



PAGE. 



OOLOGY. 



A New Feature in the Cowbird's Hist. 85 

 An Unprofitable Tenant, .... 35 



Bird Architecture, 41 



Birds' Eggs and Nests (Illustrated.)^ 3, 11, 



18, 26, 35, 42, 49, 58, 66, 76, 86 



Blue Pigeons' Eggs, 66 



Do Insects Harm Eggs ? .... 34 

 Hawk Breeding and Mating, ... 25 

 How a Bird Gets Out of Its Shell, 51, 59 



Is this not decisive? 27 



Memoranda for 1876, 72 



Nesting of the North. Shrike in N. Y., 87 

 Nesting of the Hooded Oriole in Cooke 



County, Texas, . . . . 57 

 Nesting of the Solitary or Wood Tatler, 65 

 North'n and South'n Hum. birds' Nests, 87 

 Oological Calendar tor 1877, . . 67 

 Our Present Knowledge of the Nidification 



of the American Kinglets, . 75 

 Reminiscences of a Collector, 10, 17, 26 

 Season of '75, (Contin. from Vol. I) . 1 

 Trochilus Colubris, 9 



EDITORIALS. 



Abundance or Scarcity of Breed. Birds, 12 

 Adaptation of food to Different Species of 



Birds, the, 20 



Attributes to Shyness, 36 



" Egg-shells on the Brain," ... 4 



Flight of Birds, 44 



Object of Collecting, the, . . . .52 



Our Game Laws, 68 



Plumage of Birdsas toGeog. Distribu., 28 i 

 Selection of Nesting Places, . . . 88 1 

 Some Deductions Drawn from Comparison | 



of the Characteristics of Birds, 78 i 



Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, . . . . 31 



Blue-headed Grackle, 54 



Cause of the Extinction of the Great Auk, 8 

 Does the Fish Hawk take Dead Fish ? 70 



Ectopistes migratoria, 29 



English Sparrow Question, ... 82 

 Fascinated by Light, ..... 69 

 Foolish Guillemot, . . . ' . . .55 

 Instincts of Birds of Prey, . . . .5 



Killdeer Plover, .39 



Mexican Trogon (^Illustrated) . . 4 

 Notes on the Common Rail, • • • 62 

 Notes on the Red Crossbill, . • • 89 



Ornithological Notes, 69 



Plectrophanes lapponicus in Texas, . 79 

 Rough-legged Hawk, ••.■.. 21 



Sparrow Hawk, • 13 



Swallow-tailed Hawk, ■ . • ... 46 



FOREIGN BIRDS. 



Apteryx ; Kivi-kivi, 22 



Bell Birds, ........ .6 



Capercali, 37 



Gray Call Duck (^Illustrated) , • . • 53 



Guacharo, 38 



Impeyan Pheasant or Monaul, . • . 80 

 Peculiar Habit of the Hornbill, • • 81 



SPORTING. 



Capt. Bogardus and his New Trap, . 71 

 Creedmoor, . • • 47 



Am. Oological Society, 7, 15, 23, 31, 39 

 General Topics, • • . . 32, 56, 92 



Miscellaneous Items, 2, 7, 15, 30, 31, 35, 

 39, 43, 57, 62, 64, 84, 86, 87, 90 



Editorial Briefs, 29, 60, 68, 69, 79, 89 N^dvertisements, 7, 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 



AMERICAN BIRDS. ! «' *"• "*' ''' '^' «'' «^' '^ 



About the Squirrel Hawk, 



90 

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ILLUSTRATIONS 



Egg of Black-necked Stilt, 



49 



Additions to North Am. Avi-fauna, 



American Bittern, 60 Egg of White Ptarmigan, 11 



Gray Call Duck, 53 



Mexican Trogon, 9 



Rose-breasted Grosbeak, . . . . • . .73 



An Adventure with Owls, .... 14 



Around the World, 70 



Arrival of Bii'ds in Bangor, Maine, . 90 



Barred Owl, 45 



Black-throated Bunting, .... 30 



Supplements with Numbers 1, 9-10, 11. 



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