INDEX. 



393 





Dissection of stomachs, evidence derived from, 

 100-101. 

 Methods of, 321. 

 Dissections, showing many insects, 328-329, 331, 

 336, 337, 338, 344-345. 



Showing few insects, 127, 129, 131, 291, 296, 298, 

 299, 318, 320, 325, 331, 335. 317. 



Showing no insects, 126, 127, 129, 130, 287, 288, 

 289, 290, 291, 293, 295, 296, 297, 321-323. 



Tables of, 133-146, 311-314, 321-323, 344-345. 

 Distribution, by States, 199-232. 

 Distribution in America, 308. (Map at end of Vol. ) 

 District of Columbia bird-law, 168. 

 Diurnal lepidoptera, 130. 

 Dolichonyx oryzivorus, 76, 80, 95, 280. 

 Domesticated doves or pi.eons, 81, 95, 234, 264, 266. 

 Dove, Carolina or Mourning, 280. 

 Downy Woodpecker, 80, 266, 269, 272, 274, 275, 277, 



279/ 

 Dragon-flies, 102. 



Drains choked with nests, 147-148, 352. 

 Dry peas eaten, 60. 



Dryobates pubescens, 80, 266, 269, 272, 274, 275, 277, 

 279. 

 viUosus, 80, 266. 

 Dung-beetles. 116, 135, 137. 

 Dung-insects, 102, 116, 135, 137. 

 Dutchess grapes, injured by birds, 53. 

 Early colonies in America, 21. 

 Early history at Saint Louis, 191-192. 

 Early importations, 316-317. 

 Earthworms, 86, 94, 102, 264, 275, 292, 298. 



Stolen from Robin, 86, 94, 264, 275. 

 Earwigs, 331,347. 

 Eave Martin (European), 283. 

 Eave Swallow (= Cliff Swallow), 88, 89, 262, 271, 



276, 282. 

 Eave troughs filled with nests, 148, 352. 

 Echinocystcs lobatus, 298. 

 Ectopistes migratorius, 283. 

 Edges of grain fields suffer most, 179, 256, 257, 258, 



260, 319, 338. 

 Effects of climate, 32-34, 232-233, 234, 236-237, 239. 

 Effects of continued shooting, 37. 

 Effects of legislation, 36. 

 Effects of storms, 33-34, 232-233, 234, 236-237. 

 Effects of temperature, 32-33, 236, 233. 

 Effects on birds in Canada, 309. 

 Effects on birds in England, 330, 332, 333, 335, 336, 



337, 338, 339, 340, 346, 348. 

 Effects on insects, 98-133. 

 Effects on native birds, 78-79, 82-93,260-283,317,320. 



Amount and character of evidence, 78-79. 



Synopsis of evidence, 79. 



Bluebird, 82-87. 



Chipping Sparrow, 93. 



House Wren, 87-88. 



Martins, 82-87. 



Mockingbird, 91. 



Robin, 90-91. 



Swallows, 89-90. 



Vireos, 92. 

 Egg-laying, continuous, 28. 

 Eggs of insects eaten, 102, 130, 285, 292, 295, 300. 

 Eggs of native birds destroyed, 83, 84, 90, 194, 271, 

 277, 279. 



Eggs of Sparrow: 

 Bounty on, 161. 

 Description of, 161. 



Destroyed by native birds, 274, 275, 282. 

 Methods of destroying, 165. 

 Number laid, 27, 41, 161. 

 Eggs and young destroyed, 37, 151, 180, 234, 237. 

 Egyptian rice, 74, 75. 

 Elder- berries, 311, 328. 

 Elm buds and blossoms, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 242, 243, 



328. 

 Elm-leaf beetle (Galeruca), not destroyed, 121, 122, 



130, 293, 298, 324. 

 Elms stripped by canker-worms and tussock 



moth, 108, 109-110. 

 Elm-tree worms, 297, 300. 

 Empidonax minimus, 80, 269. 

 Enemies, natural, 31-32, 97-98. 

 England, food of Sparrows in, 325, 328-329, 330-332, 

 335, 336, 337, 338, 342, 344-345, 347, 348. 

 Habits of Sparrows in, 97-98, 308, 309, 

 330-348. 

 English farmers' opinions, 39, 40, 308. 

 English ivy, 41, 42, 240. 

 English peas, 245, 247. 

 English Skylarks pull grain, 341. 

 English Sparrow, figure of, 16. 



The name a misnomer, 17. 

 Ennomos subsignaria, 109, 125, 130, 131, 294. 



Replaced by Orgyia, 121. 

 Ephemerce, 130, 286, 293, 297. 

 Epidemics unknown, 31. 

 Epilachna borealis, 130, 298. 

 Eragrostis, seeds eaten, 304. 

 Ermine moth, 345. 

 Erythroneura, 112, 113, 118. 

 Euchistus, 118. 

 European Blackbird, 335. 

 European Chaffinch, 333, 343. 

 European Greenfinch, 343. 

 European Martins, 98, 330, 332, 333, 335, 336, 337, 338, 



339, 340, 346. 

 European Skylark, 341. 

 European Starling, 333. 

 European Swallow, 335. 



European Tree Sparrow, at Saint Louis, 191-194. 

 European Thrushes, 335. 

 Evergreens injured, 41, 45, 241, 243. 

 Evidence, excluded, 12. 



In detail, 197-357. 

 Samples of, how selected, 13. 

 Summaries of, 17-149. 

 Summaries, misleading, 13. 

 Evidence versus opinion, 12-13, 99. 

 Examination of stomachs. (See Dissection.) 

 Experiments with grain, spoiled, 252, 253, 254, 318, 



320. 

 Experiments with poisons, 174-178. 

 Explanation of omissions, 12, 199. 

 Explanations relating to evidence, 197-199. 

 Extension into country, 24-26. 

 Extermination, recommendations for, 151-153. 

 Extermination of span-worms in Philadelphia, 109. 

 Extracts, from American Naturalist, 304-305. 

 From Science, 305. 

 From Forest and Stream, 305-318. 



