INDEX. 



Accipitres, 16. 



Adaptation of the form of birds to 



motion through the air, 13. 

 American Flamingo, 232. 

 Audubon on, 232, 233. 

 connecting link between the 

 Waders and Swimmera, 234, 

 American Ilouae Finch, 84. 



description of, by McCall, 85. 

 American Raven, 45. 

 American Redstart, 93. 

 American Swan, 238, 239. 

 Anecdote of a Crow, 51. 



of a pair of Swallows, 121. 

 of a Scarlet Tanager, 92. 

 of a Thrush, 73. 

 Appendages to wings of biids, 21. 

 Arctic Bluebird, 78. 

 Arctic Tern, 253. 

 Audubon quoted: 



on American Flamingo, 232, 233. 

 Blue Jay, 56. 

 Canada Goose, 236-238. 

 Canada Jay, 57. 

 Cardinal Grosbeak, 90. 

 Eider Duck, 246, 247. 

 Mallard, 241, 242. 

 Nonpareil Finch, 83. 

 Rail, 209. 

 Raven, 47. 

 Red-backed Sand Piper, 216, 



217. 

 Snowy Owl, 186, 187. 

 Sparrow Hawk, 180. 

 Swallow, 119-121. 

 White Ibia, 223, 224. 

 Wild Pigeon, 190-195. 

 WUd Turkey, 198. 



Bald Eagle, 175. 



robs the Pish Hawk, 176. 

 Baltimore Oriole, 40. 

 Barn Swallow, 118. 

 Belted Kingfisher, 127-129. 



Birds, orders of, 14. 



orders of, how subdivided, 28. 



parts of, figured, 14. 



power of flight denied to some, 

 21. 



purposes subserved by color of 

 feathers, 22, 23. 



sub-classes of, 15. 



their keen sense of danger, 27. 



their migrations, 24, 25. 



their remarkable instincts, 24. 



use of the tail in flight of, 21. 

 Bird-mountains of Java, 124. 

 Birds'-nests, edible, 124. 

 Blackbird, Red-winged, 37-39. 

 Black-capped Titmouse, 111. 

 Black-headed Humming Bird, 157. 

 Black Skimmer Gull, 251. 

 Blacksnake and Brown Thrash, 73. 

 Bluebird, 74-77. 

 Blue Grosbeak, 90, 91. 

 Blue Jay, 55. 



his bad character, 56. 

 Blue-winged Teal, 243. 

 Bobolink, 31. 



description of, by Irving, 31-35. 

 Bonaparta Gull, 254. 

 Brown Creeper, 111. 

 Brown Thrush, 72. 

 Bullock's Oriole, 42. 

 Bunting, Cow, 35, 61, 96. 



Snow, 79, 80. 

 Burrowing Owl, 188. 

 Butcher Bird, 58, 69. 



California Vulture, 172. 

 California Woodpecker, 134. 



its mode of securing vrinter pro- 

 visions, 135. 

 always selects soand nuts, 136. 

 Canada Goose, 235. 



Audubon on, 236-238. 

 its keenness of sight and hear- 

 ing, 237. 



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