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INDEX. 



Extracts from newspapers, 318-319. 

 From periodicals, 318-324. 

 Falco columbarius, 32, 309. 



sparverius, 32, 309. 

 Falcons, 309. 

 Fall army-worm, 118. 

 Fall caterpillar, 102. 

 Fall web- worm, 100, 102, 107, 118, 128, 129, 130, 131, 



286, 288, 297, 298, 324-325. 

 Fecundity, 28-29. 

 Field, the American, 0. 

 Field corn, 62, 74-75, 253, 254. 255, 256, 259. 

 Field mustard, 343. 

 Field Sparrow, 80, 267, 270. 

 Fig buds or blossoms, 45. 

 Figitince, 116. 

 Figs, iu America, 48, 59. 



In Australia, 349, 350, 351, 352. 

 In New Zealand, 320. 

 Filth, injury by, 36, 40, 41, 146-147, 240, 241, 242, 243. 

 Finch, Grass, 80, 270. 

 House, 80, 2d2. 

 Painted, 80, 264, 280. 

 Purple, 80, 263, 270, 276, 280. 

 Western House, 89. 

 Yellow, 267. 

 Finches, 80, 152-153, 269, 281. 



Food of, 323. 

 Fines, for bird-killing, .167-173. 



For nest-robbing, 167-173. 

 Fin-leared ivy, 42. 

 Fire-arms, forbidden in cities, 37. 



Suggestions as to use of, 152, 164-165. 

 Fisher on Poisons, 174-178. 

 Flax, flax-seed, 49, 65, 66, 250. 

 Flea-beetles, 112, 113, Hi, 117, 134, 138, 139, 140,141, 



142,143. 

 Flea-bugs, 102. 



Flemish Beauty pear, blossoms plucked, 46. 

 Flicker, Yellow-shafted, 80, 269, 281. 

 Flies, clear- winged, 102, 294- 

 Horse. 102, 129, 289. 

 House, 102, 299. 

 Ichneumon, 102, 294, 300. 

 Stable. 102. 



Kinds not specified, 102, 103, 128, 129, 130,138, 

 285, 287, 291, 292, 293, 295, 299. 

 Florent Prevost, 302. 

 Florida, no sparrow law in, 168. 

 Flower-beds destroyed, 249. 

 Flower-seed eaten, 48, 65, 128, 245. 

 Flowers eaten, 65. 



Flycatcher, Great Crested, 80, 266, 277. 

 Least, 80, 269. 

 Tyrant (= King-bird), 269. 

 Flycatchers, kinds not specified, 80, 88, 263, 269, 



271, 275, 280. 

 Foliage, injury to, 40, 41, 42, 146, 240-243. 

 Food. Sparrows used for, 38-39, 182, 319. 

 Food of Bluebird, 126. 

 Food of Catbird, 126. 

 Food of native birds, 99, 304, 323. 

 Food of Robin, 126. 

 Food of Sparrow : 



As shown by dissection, 296, 321-323, 325, 328, 

 329, 331, 335, 336, 337, 338, 342, 344-345, 347. 



Food of Sparrow : 



By months, 344-345. 

 In winter, 32-35. 

 Seasonal variation in, 124-125. 

 Tables of, 133-146. 

 Food of young Sparrows, 305, 330, 331, 335, 336, 337, 



338, 340, 342-343, 344-345, 347. 

 Food-habits of Sparrows in England, 330-348. 

 Food-supply and increase, 32-35. 

 Forbes on food of native birds, 99, 304. 

 Forest and Stream, extracts from, 305-318 

 Formulae for poisons, 174-175. 

 Formicidce, 116. 

 Forsythia viridissima, 44. 

 Foul cistern water, 148. 

 Fowler's solution (of arsenic), 174, 177. 

 Fowls, killed by poisoned wheat, 352. 

 Fox-tail grass (Setaria), 67, 145. 

 France, Sparrows in, 302 . 

 Freezing of Sparrows, 32-33, 233, 234, 238, 239. 

 Frost grapes, eaten, 55. 

 Fruit buds, injury to, 40, 42-48, 240,241 242,243, 



320, 347. 

 Fruits, injury to, by Sparrows, 42, 43,48-60,243- 

 252, 255, 310. 

 By wasps and bees, 49-50. 

 List of those injured, 43. 

 Fruit-seed in stomachs, 136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 



142, 143, 145. 

 Galeoscoptes carolinensis, 80, 126, 264, 265,266,268, 



269, 272, 273, 274, 275, 276, 278, 279-280, 281, 283. 

 Oaleruca ealmariensis . 121-122. 



xanthomeloena, 130, 293, 298, 324. 

 Garden corn, 02, 246, 248, 249. 

 Garden pea, 146. 



Garden seeds, injury to, 61-66, 243-251. 

 List of those injured, 48. 

 Scratched up, 64. 

 Garden vegetables, injury to, 60-64, 243-252. 

 Gas-lamps, nests in, 147. 

 Gastrophilus larvae, 132. 

 Gentry on House Sparrow, 303. 

 Geographical distribution, 23,199-232,302-303. 

 In America, 199-232, and map at end of vol- 

 ume. 

 Geometrid larva?, 109, 128, 131, 311, 328. 

 Georgia.no sparrow law iu, 168. 

 Germany, Sparrows in, 97-98. 

 Gnats, 102, 287. 



Golden-crowned Kinglet, 80, 94, 263, 267. 

 Golden-winged Woodpecker, 80,269,281,282. 

 Goldfinch, 80, 81, 88, 91, 263, 265, 267, 270, 271, 274, 

 275, 276, 277, 278, 280, 281. 

 Arkansas, 80. 

 Goldsmith beetle, 102, 285. 

 Gooseberries, 48, 57, 247, 249, 251, 344. 

 Gooseberry buds and blossoms, 46, 243, 328, 334, 



344, 347. 

 Gooseberry caterpillar or worm, 334, 339. 

 Goosefoot, 343. 



Grackle, Purple, 32, 80, 92, 267, 268, 269, 271, 276. 

 Grackles, kind not specified, 80, 279, 281. 

 Grain, experiments with, spoiled, 252, 253, 254, 318, 

 320. 

 In America, 68-78, 252-260. 

 In Australia, 348, 349, 350, 351. 



