INDEX. 



Note. —(1), Scienttflc names of birds consisting of two terms are entered but once, under the genus; as, 

 TvrcluB nmstelvnus. (2) But vernacular names of two terms are entered twice; as, Wood thrush, and Thrush 

 wood. IS) Anatomical and other technical terms are fully indexed as occurring in Part II. , where they are 

 defined and explained ; but not as occurring in Parts III. and IV. , where they are simply used in describing 

 birds. (4) Names of birds, both scientific and vernacular, are fully indexed as occurring in Parts III. and IV., 

 but usually not as incidentally occurring in Parts I. and II. in illustration of the zoological and anatomical 

 characters there noted. (5) Names merely appearing in the text, not as headings, are usually not indexed; many 

 such, however, will be found, especially such as are not elsewhere formally treated. (6) Synonyms, both scientific 

 and vernacular, are indexed. (7) Matters of field-work and taxidermy treated in Part I. are fully indexed by 

 one or more leading words; as. Insect nests, and Pests, insect. (8) Names of persons mentioned or of authors 

 quoted are not indexed. (9) The whole work is so fully indexed that the Index will serve as a glossary of the 

 terminology of ornithology. (10) All the figures refer to pages. 



Abdomen 95, 96 

 Abducent nerves 177 

 Abduction of wing 108 

 Abert's towhee 398 

 Acadian owl 513 

 Acanthisitta 269 

 Accentor 



aquatic 309 



golden-crowned 308 

 Accessory 



bone" of shoulder 107 



metatarsal 119 

 Accidents from the gun 19 

 Accipiter 527 



cooperi 528 



fuscus 528 



nisus 194, 527 

 Accipitres 496, 498, 517 

 Aocipitrinffi 526 

 Accommodation of eye 178 

 Acetabulum 119, 148 

 Acromial process 146 

 Acromfon 146 

 Acromvodi 240 

 Acromyodian 205, 239 

 Acropodium 124 

 Acrotarsium 124 

 Acryllium vulturinum 575 

 Actodromas 625 



acuminata 628 



bairdi 625 



bonapartii 627 



cooperi 627 



maculata 626 



minutilla 625 

 Adduction of wing 108 

 Adrenals 46, 216 

 .fichmophorus 793 



clarki 794 



oocidentalis 793 

 iEchmorhynchus parvirostris 618 

 .^gialites 600 



cantianus 603 



circumcinctus 602 



iSgialites 



curonicus 603 



hiaticula 603 



melodus 602 



microrhynohus 603 



nivosus 603 



semipalmatus 602 



vociferus 600 



wilsonius 601 

 .aigiothus 352 



exilipes 353 



holboelli 353 



hornemanni 353 



linaria 252 

 .^githognathism 172 

 .ffigithoguathous skull 172 

 ^gotheles 448 

 .ffipyornis maximus 65, 221 

 Aetomorphse 496 

 Afferent function of nerves 174 

 After-shaft 84 



Age, recognition of a bird's 46 

 Agelseinae 400 

 Agelajus 403 



gubernator 404 



phteniceus 404 



tricolor 404 

 Agelastes meleagrides 575 

 Agyrtria linnsei 459 

 Air-bone 168 

 Air-cells 200 

 Air-gun 3 

 Aix697 



galericiilata 698 



sponsa 698 

 Ajaja 651 



rosea 651 

 Alaskan 



jay 425 



winter wren 279 

 Ala spuria 109 

 Alauda 282 



arvensis 283 

 Alaudid^ 69, 239, 280 



Alaudinaj 282 

 Albatross 



black 776 



black-footed 775 



short-tailed 775 



sooty 776 

 Albatrosses 774, 776 

 Alca 819 



impennis 810 

 Alcedinida! 468 

 AlcedininsE 469 

 Alcedo ispida 469 

 Alcidffi 797 

 AloinsB 810 

 Alcohol, use of 21 

 Alcyone 126, 127 

 Alectorides 660, 823 

 Alectoromoi-phse 171, 572 

 Alectoropodes 573 

 Aletornis 



bellus, 824 



gracilis 824 



nobilis 823 



pernix 824 



venustus 824 

 Aleutian 



auk 810 



sandpiper 629 



tern 768 

 Alexander humming-bird 462 

 Aliethmoid 153 

 A imentarv canal 209 

 Alinasal 153 

 Atiseptal 153 

 Alisphenoid 158 

 AUe 810 



nigricans 810 

 Allen's rosy finch 350 

 Allied robin 244 

 Altrices 88 

 Aluco 501 



flammeus 502 



pratincola 502 

 Aluconidse 500 



