INDEX. 



849 



Nail of bill 102 



Nails of toes 132 



Names, scientitic 78 



Nape 96 



Nares 104, 178, 210 



Narrow-fronted woodpecker 490 



Nasal 



bones 165 



fossa 104 



gland 178 



scale 105 



turbinal 173 

 Nasliville warbler 294 

 Natatorial foot 129, 131 

 Natural 



affinities 72 



selection 66 

 Nauclerus 526 

 Neck 92, 96 

 Neochloe 330 

 Neocorys 286 



spraguii 286 

 Neophron percnopterus 519 

 Nephoecetes 457 



niger borealis 457 

 Nerve-tissue 174 

 Nervous system 174 

 Nesonetta aucklandica 699 

 Nestor produetus 65 

 Nests and eggs, collecting 50 

 Nests, plea for study of 54 

 Netting birds 4 

 Nettium 695 

 Neural 



arch 135 



spines 137 

 Neurapophyses 137 

 Neurology 174 

 Neuramceba 



Candida 174 



cinerea 174 

 Nevada sage sparrow 376 

 New york water thrash 309 

 Nictitating membrane 179, 180 

 Nidification 227 

 Night heron 



black-crowned 662 



yellow-crowned 663 

 Night herons 662, 663 

 Night-courser, white-throated 450 

 Night-coursers 449 

 Night-hawk 



Cuban 454 



texan 454 



western 454 

 Night-hawks 453 

 Nightingale, virginian 393 

 Night-jar 452 

 Night-jars 448 



american 450 

 Nipper-nosed murrelets 811 

 Nocturnal birds of prey 498 

 Noddies 771 

 Noddy tern 771 

 Nomenclature 78 



binomial 79 



rules of 80 



trinomial 80 

 Nomonyx 715 



dominica 715 

 Non-melodious passeres 427 

 Nonpareil 391 



western 391 

 Nootka humming-bird 462 

 North american oirds 



classification of 234 



North american birds 



systematic synopsis of 237 

 Northern 



black cloud swift 457 



brown crane 667 



phalarope 613 



sharp-tailed grouse 581 



shrike 337 

 Northwest tish crow 417 

 Nostrils 104 

 Notaeum 94 

 Notiocorys 285 

 Notochord 151 

 Notornis 143 

 Nucha 96 

 Nuchal 



bone 725 



region 96 



woodpecker 486 

 Nucifraga caryocatactes 418 

 Number 



of phalanges 127 



of toes 126 

 Numbering of toes 127 

 Numenius 618, 643 



arquatus 644 



borealis 646 



hudsonicus 645 



longirostris 645 



phseopus 645 



taitensis 646 

 Numida meleagris 574 

 Numididffi 574 

 Nutcracker 



american 417 



brown-headed 271 

 Nuthatch 



Canadian 271 



Carolina 270 



european 270 



P3^gniy 271 



red-bellied 271 



slender-billed 271 



white-bellied 270 

 Nuthatches 269 



tvpical 270 

 Nuttall's 



poorwill 453 



woodpecker 482 

 Nyctala 512 



acadica 513 



albifrons 513 



richardsoni 512 



tengmalmi 512 

 Nyctea 510 



scandiaca 510 

 Nycterodius G63 



violaceus 663 

 Nyctiardea 662 



grisea neevia 662 

 Nyctibiinie 448 

 Nyctidromus 449 



albicoUis 450 



Oak-woods sparrow 373 

 Obliquus 



inferior 181 



superior 181 

 Observations, record of 21 

 Obturator foramen 149 

 Occipital 



bone 156 



condyles 156 



style 725 

 Occiput 97 

 Oceanites 782 



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Oceanites oceanicus 782 

 Oceanodroma 782 

 furcatu 782 

 hornbyi 782 

 Oculi-motor nerve 177 

 Ocydrominae 670 

 Ocyphaps 564 

 Odontoglossee 677 

 Odontoid process 139 

 Odontolcae 63, 238, 821 

 Odontophorinae 588 

 Odontophorus 588 

 Odontornithes 821 

 Odontotorma? 63, 237, 821 

 (Edcmia7]3 



americana 713 

 fusca 714 

 perspjcillata 714 

 trowbridgii 715 

 velvetina 714 

 (EdicneminiB 597 

 CEsophagus 211 

 (Estrelata 779 

 bulweri 780 

 fisheri 780 

 gularis 780 

 hsesitata 779 

 Oil-gland 86 

 Old-tield lark 406 

 Old-squaw 706 

 Old-wife 706 

 Old world 



partridges 594 

 quail 594 

 vultures 519 

 Olecranon 107 

 Olfaction 178 

 Olfactory 



foramen 160 

 lobes 175 

 nerves 176 

 Olivaceous flycatchers 440 

 Olive warbler 296 

 Olive-backed thrush 248 

 Olive-black towhee 396 

 Olive-sided flycatcher 438 

 Olor 682 

 Omos 106 

 Onychotes 552 

 gruberi 563 

 Ontogeny 71 

 Oology- 

 described 215 

 study of 50 

 Oophoron masculinum 218 

 Opetiorhynchus 205 

 Ophthalmic nerve 177 

 Opisthocoelous vertebrae 138 

 Opisthocomi 571 

 Opisthocomus cristatus 143, 571 

 Opisthotic bone 157, 187 

 Oporornis 309 

 agilis 309 

 f ormosa 310 

 Optic 



foramina 159 

 lobes 175, 176 

 nerves 176, 184 

 thalami 175 

 Orange-crowned warbler 295 

 Orbicularis oculi 180 

 Orbit of eye 97, 179 

 Orbital 



process of quadrate 162 

 region 97 

 Orbito-nasal septum 160 



