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Index 



Quaries, E. A., 261 

 Quarles, F. A., 36 

 Quicklime, birds buried in, 17 



R 



Raccoons, destructiveness of, 



24, 30; food of, 25 

 Rails, 59; photographing of, 60 

 Raquet, description and use of, 



67 



Rats as destroyers, 29, 30 



Redpolls, 2; flocks of, 4; food of, 

 139; friendliness of, 144; win- 

 dow box for, 148 



Redstarts, 65 



Rehder, Alfred, 190 



Resources, natural, conservation 

 of, 125 



Rhinebeck, N. Y., Bird Club, 

 274 



Rhode Island, Biological Labora- 

 tory at Kingston, 18 



Roberts, Thomas S., 12 



Robins, 18; houses of, 216; 

 legal killing of, 69; slaughter 

 of, in Southern States, 70; 

 value of. III, 112; winter 

 feeding of, 164; winter hard- 

 ships of, 13; young, 33 



Roccolos, description and use 

 of, 67 



Rodents, destruction of, 81 



Roosevelt, Theodore, 289 



Royal Society for the Protec- 

 tion of Birds at St. Catherine's, 

 256 



S 



Saint-Gaudens, Mrs. Louis, 231 



Salt, 3, 140 



Salt Lake City, Utah, 85 



Sanctuary, bird, 55, 190, 231; 

 bath, 220; cats, 248; descrip- 

 tion of a successful one, 283; 

 establishment of, 282; estab- 

 Hshipent of, in Germany, 198 ; 

 Sanctuary, 118 



Sanderson, Professor E. D., iii 



Sandpipers, destroyers of insects, 

 89 



Sapsucker, yellow-bellied, de- 

 structiveness of, 84; nest boxes 

 of, 212 



Savage, James, 14, 15, 234 



Saw whet, nest boxes, 212 



Scalp Act, The, 264 



Scarecrow, 246 



Scavengers, 94; sea-gulls, 87 



Schaeffer, Nathan C, 42 



Schubert, CymheUne, 121 



Scientists, value of, 267 



Scotland; King James I., 122 



"Seebach," 193 



Seeds, kinds used for food, 90, 

 91, 138, 139, 140; kinds used 

 for winter food, 137; purchase 

 of, 137 



Seton, Ernest Thompson, 215 



Shakespeare, 122 



Shearwaters, 59 



Shelter woods, 216 



Shelves, for Phoebes and Robins, 



215 

 Shrikes, destructive to small 



birds, 30; economic value of, 



no 

 Siegfried, 120 



Siskins, 66; pine, 2, 4, 139, 144 

 Skunks, 25; damage done by, 27 

 Skylarks, 66 

 Slaughter of birds by negroes, 



poor whites, 69, 70 

 Smite, Helen Woodruff, 281 

 Smithsonian Institute, 99 

 Snakes, black, milk, 36 

 Snipe family, 17 

 Snow, seed-eating birds, 16 

 Society for Prevention of Cruelty 



to Animals, 77 

 Sparrows, 16; chipping, 13, 139, 



140, 144; European, 18; 



enemy of song birds, 78; 



extermination of, 30, 241; 



field, 18; food of, 83; fox, 138, 



139, 140, 145; poisoning of, 



243; song, 14, 34; attacked by 



snake, 37; description of bath, 



