Podicipedids 792 
Podicipes 794 
auritus 795 
californicus 796 
cornutus 795 
-eristatus 794 
dominicus 796 
griseigena 794 
holboelli 794 
Podilymbus 796 
podicipes 797 
Podium 126 
Podotheca 124 
Point of the wing 114 
Poison 26, 40 
Pole-backed woodpecker 485 
Polioptila 261 
californica 262 
coerulea 261 
melanura 261 
plumbea 261 
Polioptilina 242, 260 
Pollex 108 
Polyborinz 539 
Polyboroides 521 
Polyborus 539 
auduboni 539 
cheriway 539 
lutosus 539 
Polyplectron 575 
Pomatorhine jager 735 
Pons varolii 175, 176 
Pocecetes 364 
confinis 365 
gramineus 364 
Poor skins, restoring 47 
Poor-will, nuttall’s 453 
Poor-wills 452 © 
- Pope 391 
Pope’s nose 114 
Portal system of veins 197 
Portio 
dura 187 
mollis 187 
Porzana 673 
carolina 673 
coturniculus 674 
maruetta 673 
jamaicensis 674 
noveboracensis 674 
Position of digits 128 
Post-frontal 
bone 157 
‘processes 156 
Post-oral arch 152, 154 
Post-orbital region 97 
Post-palatine processes 164 
Post-sacral verebra 142 
Post-zygapophyses 137 
Powder, gun 4 
Powder-down feathers 86 
Praecoces 88 
Prairie 
chicken of the northwest 581 
hen 583 
falcon 534 
pigeon 641 
plover 604 
warbler 305 
Preening plumage 86 
Premaxillary 100, 164 
Prenasal cartilage 158, 155 
Pre-oral arch 152 
Prepalatines 164 
Preparations 
osteological 48 
INDEX. 
Preparations 
wet 48 
Pressirostral 101 
Presphenoid 158 
Pre-zy gapophyses 137 
Primaries 112 
Primary coverts 110 
Primary, spurious 113 
Primordial kidneys 215 
Princely tern 760 
Priocella 778 
tenuirostris 778 
Priofinus 783 
-melanurus 783 
Prion 776 
Priority, law of 80 
\ Procellaria 780 
pelagica 781 
Procellariidee 773 
Procellariinse 776 
Procelsterna 755 
Proccelous vertebra 138 
Procoracoid 145, 147 
Progne 325 
subis 325 
Prometheus 302 
Pronation 109 
Pro-otic bone 157, 187 
Propubis 149 
Prosencephalon 175 
Prosobonia leucoptera 618 
Prothonotary warbler 291 
Protonotaria 291 
citrea 291 
Protoplasm 196 
Prototype 75 
Prototypic groups 76 
Protovum 221 
Protozoa 70 
Proventriculus 212 
Prusiano 391 
Prybilov sandpiper 630 
Psaltriparus 267 
melanotis 267 
minimus 268 
plumbeus 268 
Pseudogryphus 558 
californianus 558 
Psilopzdic birds 88 
Psilorhinus 419 
morio 419 
Psittaci 494 
Psittacide 495, 496 
Psophiide 665 
Ptarmigan 585 
rock 587 
white-tailed 588 
willow 48, 586 
Pteranodon beds 825 
Pterocletes 562 
Pterodactyls 62 
Pterosauria 62 
Pterygoid bones 163 
Pteryla 
alaris 87 
caudalis 87 
cruralis 87 
dorsalis 87 
femoralis 87 
humeralis 87 
spinalis 87 
ventralis 87 
Pteryle 87 
Pterylography 86 
Pterylosis 86 
Ptilogonatinz 327 
853 
Ptilogonys 328 
Ptilonorhynchus 224 
Ptilopadic birds 88 
Ptilopus 564 
Ptilosis 82 
Ptinus brunneus 55 
Ptychorhamphus 809 
aleuticus 810 
Pubes, Pubic, Pubis, 149 
Pucrasia 575 
Puffin 
common 802 
horned masking 801 
large-billed 803 
tufted 803 
Puffins 800 
masking 800 
tufted masking 803 
Puffinus 
amaurosoma 787 
anglorum 786 
borealis 784 
conradi 825 
creatopus 785 
fuliginosus 787 
kuhli 784 
major 785 
obscurus 786 
opisthomelas 786 
tenuirostris 787 . 
Pug-nosed auk 806 
Pullastra 562 
Pulmonary organs 199 
-Pulmonic circulation 195 
Pulviplumes 86 
Pupil of eye 183 
Purple 
bullfinches 346 
crow-blackbird 413, 
finch 346 
cassin’s 347 
gallinule 676 
grackle 413 
martin 325 
painted finch 391 
” sand piper 629 
m 
TER ech, morelets 392 
finches 392 
nuthatch 271 
petrel 781° 
Pygopodes 787, 825 
Eygestyle 114, 142 
Pylorus 213 
Pyramidalis muscle of eye 181 
Pyranga 317 
estiva 318 
cooperi 318 
hepatica 318 
ludoviciana 319 
rubra 318 
Pyrocephalus 444 
mexicanus 444 
rubineus 444 
Pyrrhula 344 
cassini 344 
coccinea 344 
Pyrrhuloxia 393 
sinuata 393 
Pyrrhurine 495 
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Qua-BIRD 662 
Quadrate bone 161 
Quadrato-jugal bone 162 
Quadratus muscle of eye 181 
