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INDEX TO VOLUME III. 



MARCH, 1877, TO MARCH, 1878. 



TITLE. PAGE. 



OOLOGY. 



A Collecting Tour in Florida, . . 35 

 An Egg of the Painted Bunting (lllust.) 83 

 A Kingfisher defends her Home bravely, 68 

 A Little Experience with Kingfishers' 



Nests, . 60 



A Nesting of the Golden Eagle, . . 86 

 A Queer Nesting Place, .... 59 

 A Spotted Yellow-bird's Egg (Illust.), 52 



A Swallow's Nest(?), 95 



Birds' Eggs and Nests (Illustrated), 2, 



10, 20, 43, 51 



Cow Birds' Eggs, . . . . . . " . 45 



Fossil Eggs and Nests, 27 



Habit of the Chimney Swallow, . .61 



Identification of Eggs, 37 



Influence of Selfishness on Oology, . 76 

 Memoranda of Eggs collected in 1877, 45 

 Methods of Climbing for Nests, . . 93 

 Methods of Climbing in obtaining Nests, 28 

 More about Sparrow's Nests, . . . 67 

 More about the Great Northern Shrike, 37 

 Nest and Eggs of Olive-sided Flycatc'r, 67 

 Nest and Eggs of Olive-backed Thrush, 53 

 Nest and Eggs of Townsend's Flycatc'r, 11 

 Nest and Eggs of White-eyed Vireo, . 77 

 Nesting Habits of Worm-eating Warb., 19 

 Nesting of the Black-throated Blue War- 

 bler in New York, .... 10 

 Nesting of the Maryland Yellow-throat, 



(Illustrated) 77 



Nesting of the Mocking Bird, ... 75 

 Nesting of the Rose-breast. Grosb'k( ?) , 50 

 Nesting of the Rough-winged Swallow, 87 

 Nesting of the Wood Pewee, . . .37 

 Nest of the Brown Creeper, ... 59 

 Nest of the Burrowing Owl, ... 21 



Nest of the Chickadee, 28 



On the Nesting of Ficus villosus, . . 69 



Oological, 85 



Recipe for Mending Eggs, .... 68 



Spizella socialis Nests on the Ground, 68 



To Y^'oung Oologists, 2 



Towhee Bunting, 36 



Two Nests in One, 60 



Which was It? • 61 



' Wise as an Owl,' or ' Stupid as an Owl,' 

 Which? ........ 1 



Oological Items, 3, 21, 28, 29, 36, 44, 

 45, 53, 61, 69, 95 



Editorials. 



Changes in the Songs of Birds, • . • 54 



Development of Sight and Hearing in B'ds, 



The, ........ 46 



Intrinsic Value of Birds' Eggs, The, . 38 

 Natural History Journals, .... 78 



Three Papers on the Breeding Habits of 

 Birds : 

 /. Nidijication, ...... 12 



//. Oviposition, 22 



///. Incubation^ 30 



Volume Three, 4 



63, 

 97 



Editorial Notices, 23. 31, 39, 47, 54, 



.... 63, 70, 78, 88, 89 



American Ornithology 



A Conflict for Possession, .... 56 



Albinism, ......... 79 



Black-necked Stilt, ...... 39 



Black-throated Bunting, The, ... 24 

 Chuck-will's-widow, The, . • . • 65 



Collecting Bird-skins, 63 



Collecting Trip on the Lincolnshire Broads, 



England, 89 



Goturniculus i^ecow^ei perches on a Tree, 81 

 Destruction of Robins in the South, . 80 

 Extracts from the Field Book of 1877, 47 

 Great-crested Flycatcher, The, . . 72 

 How to Rightly Estimate the Economical 



Value of Birds, 6 



Humming Bird, The, ...... 1 



Least Tern in Oneida County, The, . 7 



