BIRD NOTia. iii 



BftrroTv's GoMen-eyed Duck. See BvMpluda iaiandiaai 

 Bay-breasted Wai'bler. Sec, Dendrmoa caatanea. 



Beach Bird. Local name on the New Jersey coast for Gha/radriua fulvus 

 mrginicua. 



Bell's Vireo. See Vireo Bellii. 



Belted Kingfisher. Bee Ceryle aUsyon. 



Bewick's Wren. See Thryothorm bewiekU. 



B'rds in general. J., 1, 7— Birds walking under water, quoting from 

 " Land and Water." i. , 7, 101 — " Sagacity of birds " in returning to 

 their homes and in making nests, from the Spectator, i., 7, 103 — 

 " The Balance of Nature," copied from Chambers' Journal, claicuiag 

 that we are worse off by killing off birds of prey, as they serve to 

 kill the weak and sickly birds, and claiming that the grouse disease is 

 worse the years iht t hawks and owls are scarce, drawing the infer- 

 ence tha* we should leave everything to nature, which has established 

 the right balance, i., 7, 102 — "Plight of Birds," quoting from Jfa- 

 ture, an article by Mr. Hubert Airy — Editors, i., 9, 134 — " Gluttony 

 of Birds," quoting from a letter to the London Times, interesting ob- 

 servations on the number of times different species of birds feed their 

 young and the immt-nse qnantitiea of insect food they eat. i , 10, 149 

 J —"Birds Walking Under Water," by Dr. Elliott Coues. i., 10, 153— 

 "Early M >tinB," giving some observations by M. Dareau do la M'lUe, 

 of the Academy of Science of Paris, on different birds in waking in 

 the morning, by which the sparrow (our English spirrnw — Passer 

 domesticus) is found to be the laziest of them all. i., 13, 201) — "Re- 

 searches After the Birds of Paradise," account of Sifiui-T Li'Albertis' 

 travels into the interior of New Guinea after birds of this magnificent 

 family— Editors, i., 14, 217— "How to Sinfi Birds," by J. H. Batty, 

 giving the elements of taxidermy, i., 17, 258 — Loons under water — 

 that they use their wings the same as in flymg. i., 19, 294 — "Flight 

 of Birds," quotations from an article by Prof. Le Coute, in Nature. 

 i., 30, 312 — "The Migration of Birds and the Telegraph," quoting an 

 txticlQtxqmLaUhasaellliiatree, that air currents have much to do 

 with the migration of birds, i., 23, 344r— " The Viennese Exhibition 

 and the Birds," giving the resolutions adopted by the Bird Congress 

 for the preservation of birds — ^Editors, i., 34, 372 — Aa article on 

 mounting same, by J. H. Batty, ii., 17, 264 — "Tue Introduction of 

 Singing Birds into the Country," by the Cincinuali Society of Accli- 

 mation ; set at liberty in the spring of 1873, and several built nests In 

 the vicinity of Cincinnati. The birds are red-breasted robins, wag- 

 tails, skylarks, starlings, dunnocks, singing thruslies, blackbirds, red- 

 wings, nightingales, also goldfinches, great tits, Dutch tits, dippers, 

 Hungarian thrushes, bullfinches,, cherry birds, Nestel thrushes, corn- 

 crakes and crossbills, ii., 21, 339 — That their eggs can be sent loig 

 distances ; if fresh and properly packed some may be hatched out, 

 as some sent from Bombay to England hatched 2) percent, iii., 2, 

 21 — "Let the Birds Live," if only as a recompense for the good they 

 do in the gardens ; gives some account of the insects a single pair of 

 birds will destroy in a day — "OUipod i^uill." iii., 4, 53 — Speaking 

 about the habit of shooting birds for taking a few cherries as foolish, 

 for they repay the gardener a thousand times over by destroying the 

 insects, iii , 6, 85 — In order to have eggs remain good that are sent 

 long distances, pack them in salt, or moss, with the small end down; 

 turn the box on its side every other day. iii., 10, 148 — Birds are the 

 Friends and Co-laborers of the Gardener," a plea of thegirdenernot 

 to destroy them— "Ollipod Quill." m., 12, 180— "lue Original 

 Cause or Causes of the Migration of Birds," an extract from Nature^ 

 principal cause in the fall, scarcity of food ; in the spring, desire to 

 visit their breeding places, or places of birth, iii., 12, 181 — " Birds, 

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