378 



INDEX. 



M. 



Magpie, 171 



Mallard duck, 239 



Man-of-war bird, 247 



Marbled godwit, 231 



Marsh-harrier, 212 



Marsh-hawk, 212 



Marsh-wren, 112 



Maryland yellow-throat, 118 



Meadow-lark, 165 



Mergansers, 243 



Methods of studying food of birds, 9 



Mexican cormorant, 246 



Millinery purposes, birds sacrificed 



for, 259 

 Mniotiltidae, 112 

 Mocking-bird, 103 

 Mountain partridge, 227 

 Mourning-dove, 222 

 Myriapoda, 58 

 Myrtle-bird, 115 



N. 



Nashville warbler, 114 

 Nest-destroying, 257 

 New England jackdaw, 160 

 Night-hawk, 178 

 Night-jars, 178 

 Noctuida;, 49 

 Non-game birds, 255 

 Northern phalarope, 233 

 Nuthatches, 105 



Old squaw, 242 

 Orioles, 156 

 Orthoptera, 42 

 Osprey, 212 

 Owls, 195 



Partridge, 222 

 Pelicans, 246 

 Petrels, 250 

 Pewee, 174 

 Phalangiidse, 58 



Phalaropes, 233 

 Phoebe, 174 

 Picida;, 181 

 Pied-billed grebe, 254 

 Pigeons, 219 



Pileated woodpecker, 181 

 Pine grosbeak, 132 

 Plovers, 228 

 Porzana, 234 

 Prairie-hen, 226 

 Predaceous animals, 257 

 Puffin, 250 

 Purple finch, 133 

 Purple gallinule, 235 

 Purple giackle, 158 

 Purple martin, 129 



Quail, 222 



R. 



Rails, 233 

 Rallus, 234 



Eed-breasted merganser, 243 

 Red-breasted nuthatch, 107 

 Red-eyed vireo, 119 

 Red-head duck, 241 

 Red-necked grebe, 254 

 Red phalarope, 233 

 Red-shouldered hawk, 207 

 Redstart, 117 

 Red-tailed hawk, 208 

 Red-winged blackbird, 161 

 Relations of birds to man, 1 

 Rhyncophora, 54 

 Richardson's grouse, 227 

 Ring-neck duck, 241 

 Ring-neck plover, 228 

 Roadrunner, 194 

 Robin, 90 



Rose-iH-easted grosbeak, 141 

 Rose tanager, 131 

 Rough-legged hawk, 207 

 Ruby-crowned kinglet, 105 

 Ruby-throat, 177 



