856 



INDEX. 



Scientific names 78 

 Scissors 25, 52 

 Scissor-tail 431 

 Scleroskeletal bones 134 

 Sclerosteous bones 1(>8 

 Sclerotal bones 182 

 Sclerotic ISO, 182 

 Scolecophagus 411 

 cyanoceplialus 411 

 ferrugineus 411 

 Scolopaceous courlan 668 

 Scolopacida? 614 

 Scolopax 615, 620, 828 



rusticula 620 

 Scops 504 

 asio 505 

 bendirii 506 

 flammeola 506 

 floridana 506 

 kennicotti 605 

 maccalli 506 

 maxwellie 506 

 trichopsis 506 

 Scopus umbretta 652 

 Scoter 



american black 713 

 velvet 714 

 Scoters 713 

 Screech owl 505 

 California 506 

 Colorado 506 

 flammulated 50G 

 florida 506 

 kennicott's 505 

 texas 506 

 Screech owls 504 

 Scutella 124 



Scutellate podotheca 124 

 Scutelliplantar tarsus 124 

 Sea 



coot 713, 714 

 ducks 608 

 eagles 554 

 parrot 802 

 parrots 800 

 Sea-dove 810 

 Sea-pigeon 814 

 Sea-shore spaiTow 363 

 Sea-side 



finch 367 



florida 368 

 sparro^vs 367 

 Sea-swallow 7G2 

 Secondaries 113 

 Secondary 



coverts 110 



sexual characters 89, 90 

 Seed-eater, little 392 

 Segmentation of the vitellus 224 

 Selasphorus 462 

 allcni 462 

 hcnshawi 463 

 platycercus 463 

 rufus 463 

 Selection 



natural 90 

 sexual 90 

 Sella turcica 198 

 Semen 218 



Semicircular canals 188. 189 

 Semilunar membrane 205 

 Semipalmate 

 foot 131 

 tattlers 636 

 Semipalmated 

 plover 602 



Semipalmated 



sandpiper 624 

 Semipalmation 131 

 Semiplumes 86 

 Semitendinosus 195 

 Senex 539 



Sennett's warbler 291 

 Sense of 



hearing 184 



sight 178 



smell 178 



taste 191 



touch 191 

 Sensori-motor nerves 174 

 Sensory nerves 174 

 Septo-maxillary 163, 173 

 Septo-nasal 173 

 Serrate bill 102 

 Serration of tarsus 125 

 Serum 106 

 Sesamoid bones 134, 168 



of wing 108 

 Setirostres 449 

 Setophaga 315 



picta 315 



ruticilla 316 

 Setophagina? 288, 312 

 Sex, determination of 45 

 Sexual 



characters 89, 90 



selection 90 

 Shaft of feather 84 

 Shag 726 

 Shank 119 

 Sliapes of tail 117 

 Sharp-shinned hawk 527, 528 

 Sharp-tailed 



tiuch 368 



grouse 581 



sandpiper 628 

 Shearwater 



black-vented 786 



black-tailed 783 



cinereous 784 



common atlantic 785 



Cory's 784 



dai-k-bodied 787 



dusky 786 



flesh-footed 785 



greater 785 



manx 786 



mediterranean 784 



slender-billed 787 



smutty-nosed 783 



sooty 787 



wandering 785 

 Shearwaters 783 



fulmar 783 

 Shell 



doves 570 



quail 593 

 Shining flv-snapper 328 

 Shoe-bill 654 

 Shoot, how to 8 

 Shore-birds 596 

 Shore larks 281 

 Short-billed 



kittiwake 748 



marsh wren 280 

 Short-eared owl 507 

 Short-legged tattler 643 

 Short-1 ailed 



albatross 775 



tern 770 

 Short-winged murrelet 814 

 Shots 



Shot-gun 1 

 Shoulder 106 

 Shoulder-blade 146 

 Shoulder-girdle 145 

 Shoveller duck 696 

 Shrike 



common american 338 



great northern 337 



loggerhead 338 



white-rumped 338 

 Shrikes 336 



gray 337 



true 336 

 Shuffler 701 

 Sialia 257 



arctica 258 



mexicana 258 



sialis 257 

 Siberian 



titmouse 267 



wagtail 284 

 Sickle-bill 645 

 Sickle-billed kites 523 

 Sierra jay 422 

 Sight, sense of 178 

 Sigmoid flexure of neck 93 

 Silk buntings 387 

 Silver-tongue 371 

 Simorhynchus 806 



cassini 808 



cristatellus 807 



dubius 807 



psittaculus 806 



pusillus 808 



pygma?us 8- 8 



tetraculus SOT 

 Sinciput 97 

 Singing of birds 206 

 Sinus rhomboidalis 176 

 Siskin, american 354 

 Siskins 353 

 Sitta 270 



aculeata 271 



ciesia 270 



canadensis 271 



carolinensis 270 



pusilla 271 



pygmrea 271 

 Sittella"2G9 

 Sittida^. 209 

 Sitodrepa panicea 55 

 Siurus 308 



auricapillus 308 



motacilla 309 



nrevius 309 



notabilis 309 

 Skeleton of birds 134 

 Skeletonizing 48 

 Skimmer, black 772 

 Skimmers 772 

 Skimming birds 28 

 Skua gulls 734 

 Skull of birds 149 

 Skull, development of fuwl's 151 

 Skunk blackbird 400 

 Skvlarks 282, 283 

 Sky pipits 286 



Slate-colored fox sparrow 386 

 Slit-nosed longivings 733 

 Slender-billed 



fulmar 778 



nuthatch 271 



shearwater 787 

 Small 



egret berons 659 



green-crested flycatcher 441 



