INDEX. 



Abundance of birds during migration, 97. 

 Acanthis linaria, 80, 263. 

 Accidental transportation, 23, 309. 

 Accipiter cooperi, 32. 



velox, 32. 

 Acer, 146. 



Acknowledgments, 9, 10. 

 Acrididce, 131. 

 Acts relating to sparrows in the United States, 



167-173. . 

 Actual increase, 29. 

 Africa, sparrows in, 302. 

 Agelaius phoeniceus, 80, 266. 

 Ailanthus worms, 306. 

 Alabama, no sparrow law in, 167. 

 Alaska, no sparrow law in, 167. 

 Albinism, albinos, 31. 

 Algeria, House Sparrow in, 302. 



Spanish Sparrow in, 302. 

 Amaranthus seeds, 311, 328. 

 Ambrosia artemisicefolia. 146. 

 American Naturalist, extracts from, 304, 305. 

 American Ornithologists' Union, 11, 304, 315-318. 



Verdict of, 315-318. 

 Amount of grain consumed in France, 302. 

 Ampelis cedrorum, 80, 270, 272, 280. 

 Ammodramus sandivichensis savanna, 80, 270, 280, 



323. 

 Ampelopsis veitchii, 41. 

 Ancients, Sparrow known to the, 301. 

 Angleworms, 292. (See Earthworm.) 

 Anisoplia fructicola, 305. 

 Anisopteryx (Palcacrita) vernata, 109, 110, 128, 129, 



130, 131, 132, 285, 286, 291, 292, 293, 295, 299, 3C0, 



301. 

 Annual increase, 29. 

 Ant, black, 296. 



red. 102, 291. 

 Ants, 102, 112, 113, 114, 115, 128, 130, 138, 140, 141, 

 142, 287, 291, 295, 318. 

 winged, 102, 130, 140, 291. 

 Ants' eggs eaten, 102. 

 Antiopa butterfly, 291. 



Antrostomus vociferus, disappearence of, 283. 

 Apple, pecked by Sparrow (figure), 58. 

 Apple buds and blossoms plucked, 45, 46, 47, 240, 



241, 242. 

 Apple buds in stomachs, 242. 

 Apple pulp in stomachs, 145. 

 Apple pollen eaten, 344. 

 Apple seeds not eaten, 57-58. 



Apple-tree worms, 102. 

 Apple-trees and cankerworrus, 109, 110. 

 Apples attacked in America, 48, 54, 57, 58, 59, 244, 

 247, 248, 249, 250. 

 Australia, 349, 351. 

 Aphides, 102, 125, 129, 130, 289, 296, 328, 332, 345, 



347, 348. 

 Aphodius fimelarius, 112, 116. 

 granarius, 112, 116. 

 sp.,111, 116, 296. 

 Apparatus for Sparrow-catching, 183, 191. 

 Apricots, in America, 48, 244. 



In Australia, 349, 350,.351, 352, 353. 

 Apricot buds and blossoms plucked, 45, 241, 351. 

 Arachnids, 120, 121, 294. 

 Arctiic's, 112. 

 Area occupied in the United States and Canada, 



26-27. 

 Aristotle mentions the Sparrow, 301. 

 Arizona, no sparrow law in, 167. 

 Arkansas bird law, 167. 

 Arkansas goldfinch, 80. 



Army worm, 99, 102, 128, 129,130,131,287,288,289, 

 290, 294, 295. 

 Fall, 118. 

 Arsenic, 174, 175, 177, 233, 235, 238, 349, 351. 

 Arseniate of soda, 174, 177. 

 Arsenious oxide, 174. 

 Arsenite of calcium, 174, 177. 



of copper, 174, 178. 

 Artichoke, 49, 66. 



Atriplex patulum, seeds eaten, 305. 

 Attachment to young, 193. 



Attacks, made in squads, 94, 266-267,269,270,271, 

 276,277,279,280,281,282. 

 Unprovoked, 92-94, 97, 263, 264. 

 Australia, Sparrow in, 302-303, 320, 348-357. 

 Grapes damaged in, 55-56. 

 Poison used in, 132-133. 

 Auxiliary barrel, 164. 

 Avena saliva, 146. 

 Bagworm, 102, 121, 131, 324-325. 

 Bags torn from grapes, 54, 323-324. 

 Baltimore Oriole, 60, 80, 81, 108-109, 265, 268, 269,271, 

 272, 273, 274, 275, 278, 282, 283, 324-325. 

 Eats cherries and peas, 60. 

 Eats hairy caterpillars, 108-109. 

 Bank Swallow, 80. 



Barley, in America, 68, 72, 73, 74, 253, 255, 256, 259, 

 2C0. 

 In Australia, 349. 



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