Index. 141 



Cedar-bird, Cedar Waxwing — Ciiiilinncd 



and incubating, and hatcliing of eggs in, 5.S, 59; yi'Ung nf, at Ijirth, 50; age of young of, when 

 eyes open, 59; disappearance of young in nest of, 59; liehax-ior <d, in ajijiroaching nest with 

 food, 60; development of color marks in fledglings of, Oo, 61; appearance of feather-shafts 

 and wax-like tipis in wings of, 60; habits of voung of, when ready trj fly, 60; rate of feeding of 

 young in, 6i; the feeding, food, and care of young of, 5^, 61, joi; similarity in sexes of, 61, 

 62; peculiar signals of, at nest, 62, 102; habit of sipping maple sap in, 62; flockin.g of, in Au- 

 gust, 62 ; and the black cherry tree, 62 ; eating spiders or robbing them of their pre)', 63 ; taking 

 insects on the wing, 6?, 63; gapiin.g habit in, 9,S; gluttony of, 102; insjiei'tion and cleaning 

 the nest Ijy, 104, 10^—107; eating excreta ot \'Oung by, 105, 106; parasites in nest of, 107; 

 habits of, during incubation, 134. 



Central Park, Chickadees in, 127. 



Chapman, F. M., 127. 



Charles Island, tameness of birds of, 136. 



Chatterer, the origin of name as applied to the Waxwin.gs, 52. 



Cherr\r Bird (sec Cerlar-bird). 



Chick, domestic, instinct of fear in, 119; behavior of, when Hawk ]iasses overhead, 120. 



Chickadee {Farus ulrica/^illus, Linn.), cleanliness of, 104; attracted b_v Robin's alarm, 122, 123; habits 

 and tameness of, 127, i2,S; during incubation, 134. 



Cicada, eaten bj' young of Cedar-bird, 61; struggles of Kingbirds with, 103; combat of, with House 

 Spiarrow, 103. 



City life, possible origin of, in manv birds, 50. 



Clamp, the "Graphic" ball and socket, 34. 



Cleaning instinct, 103-110 (sec Instincts). 



Cleveland ((J,), spring arrival of Robins and Bluebirds at, 40; Robins in, 50: Rcrl-hcadcil AVoodpcckcrs 

 in, 50. 



Color, discrimination of, in Cedar-bird, 5S; dcx'clojimcnt of, in Kingfisher, ,S6, 91. 



Courtship in Bluebird, 71, 72. 



Cowbird, earh' experiments of, in animal psychcjlogy, xvi; young cjf, in AVarbler's nest, 121, 122; ab- 

 sence of fear in, 122. 



Creeper, Brown (Cctihia faniilians aincricana. Bonap.'), sh\-ness of, I2,S, 120. 



Crossbills, American (Loxia LurvimsU-a niuwr, Brclun.) , effect of alarm of Crow upon, 122. 



Crow, effect of alarms of, upcai other birds, 122. 



Cuckoo, appearance of feather-shafts in, 6. 



Cycle, the reproductive, in birds, 3. 



D. 



Darwin, Charles, 136, 137. 



Dorchester (N. H.), nesting of Swift in shed at, 114. 

 Dorset (O.), nesting of Swift in barn at, 114. 



Dragon-fly, capture and killing of, by Kingbirds, 2.8, 103 ; as food of voung Catbirds, 77-79. 

 Duck, Black (Anus obscura, GnicL), absence of fear in newl_\' hatched young of, 119; nesting of, 119, 120; 

 behavior of old and young of, when latter arc possessed of fear, 120. 



Eagle, behavior of, when nesting, compared with that of Xi.ght Hawk."'So: improvised nest of, 134. 



Earthworms, fed to j'oung Robin, 46, 47. 



Economy of food, in Robin, 39; in the Kingbird, 2S, 102; in the Rcd-eved Vireo, 6S. 



Eggs, of Kingbird, 21: birds str.-.ngly attached to, 13; incubation of, in Robin. 36: lateness of laying 

 of, in Cedar-bird and American Goldfinch, 52; proporti(.n of voung reared to number c.f, m 

 Cedar-bird, 53 ; laying and incubation of, in Cedar-bird, 58; destruction of, in Red-eyed Vireos, 

 69; hatching of, in Night Hawk, ,So: relation of size of, to condition of young at birth, 117; 

 of Canada Goose hatched under hen, 130; beha\';or of Chestnut-sided Warblers, with. 131; 

 behavior of birds when incubating, 134. 



