INDEX. 
of birds, 133; Why birds sing, 5, 
189. 
Bird-songs. (See also Bird-song.— 
Birds.—Imitation.—Music.—Night- 
songs.— Notations. —Songs.) Are 
not music, 123; Author’s collection 
of, when begun, v; Author’s mode 
of taking, 161; Big-tree thrush and 
wood thrush, 162; Flagg, W. On 
copying of, 114; Fowler, W. W. 
Bird-songs cannot be copied, 114; 
Golz, Dr. Bird-songs can be copied, 
115; Harting, J. E. Reproducing 
of, 215; Illustrations of, in refuta- 
tion of Wm. Pole, 123. 
Birds. (See also Bird-song. — Bird- 
songs. — Borrowing from the birds. 
—Song-birds.) Dancing of, 186; 
Imported songsters, 182; Jenner, 
Dr. Signs from, 171; Legend of 
Saint Francis d’Assisi, 170; Plu- 
mage of, in Australia, 210 ; Prices 
of imported singing-birds, 184, 
Birmingham, J., 230. 
Bishop. Buffon, G. L. L., comte de. 
Organist same as, 186; Le Page du 
Pratz, (— ), 186. 
Black-billed cuckoo. See Cuckoo (coc- 
cygus erythrophthalmus). 
Blackbird (turdus merula), 176, 180; 
Notations: Gardiner, W., 211, Haw- 
kins, Sir J., 217, Smee, A., 222; 
Smee, A., 223. 
Blackcap, 180; Harting, J. E. Nota- 
tion, 215. 
Black-capped titmouse. See Chickadee 
(parus atricapillus). 
Black-throated green warbler. 
Warbler (dendroica virens). 
Blackwall, J., 175, 230. 
Blake, G. Loon, 200. 
Blanchard, E., 140, 230. 
Blue Jay. Allen, J. A., 168. 
Bluebird (sialia sialis). (See also Cat- 
bird, 52.) Minot, H. D., 144; Nel- 
son, E. W., 145; Notations, 11; 
Nuttall, T., 145. 
Bob White. See Quail. 
Bobolink (dolichonyx oryzivorus), 82, 
See 
247 
175, 191; Cheney, S. P. Song can- 
not be copied, 7, 115; Difference be- 
tween song of old and young, 26; 
Hayward, Miss C. A., 194; In the 
réle of a canary, 193; Minot, H. D., 
193; Notations, 83; Wilson, Dr. A., 
193. 
Bombay times (newspaper), 127. 
Bonasa umbellus. See Ruffed grouse. 
Bonnier, P., 230. 
Booming. Night-hawk, 196. 
Borrowing from the birds. Chewink, 
45; Kingsley, Rev. C., 1384; Old 
Dan Tucker borrowed from the hens, 
108; Rooster, 105. 
Boyle, Mrs. E. V. (G.), 280. 
Brand, J., 171, 231. 
Brehn, A. C., vii, 281. 
Brehm and Hausmann, 231. 
Brewster, W., 241; Drumming of par- 
tridge, 197. 
Brimley, C. S., 231. 
British singing-birds. Barrington’s 
table of comparative merit of, 180. 
Broderip, W. J., 231; Song-birds 
(quoted from D. Barrington), 121. 
Brown mocker. See Thrush (harpo- 
rhynchus rufus). 
Brown thrasher. See Thrush (harpo- 
rhynchus rufus). 
Brown thrush. See Thrush (harpo- 
rhynchus rufus). 
Browning, R. Song thrush (poem), 
223. 
Bubo Virginianus. See Great horned 
owl. 
Buckland, F., 126,140, 231. 
Buffon, G. L. L., comte de, 216, 231; 
Bishop same as organist, 186; Or- 
ganist, 186. 
Buist, Dr., 281; Musical fishes, 126. 
Bull. Notations, 120, 206. 
Bullfinch, 138; Austin, G. L., 175, 
Bumble-bee. Hinrichs,A. Notations, 
226. 
Burgh, A., 231; Birds are instinctive 
musicians, 135. 
Burritt, E., 231. 
Burroughs, J., 152, 166, 231, 241; 
