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INDEX. 



Montana bird-law, 170. 



Montana bounty-law on prairie-dogs and ground- 

 squirrels, 161-162. 

 Mosquitoes, 102, 299. 

 Moth, buffalo, 102, 



Cabbage, 102,297! 

 Canker-worm, 110. 

 Cecropia, 291. 

 Luna, 102,291. 

 Moths or millers, 102, 103, 129, 130, 131, 138, 141, 285, 

 286, 287, 288, 289, 290, 291, 292, 294, 295, 297, 299, 

 300. 

 Eaten after singeing, 131. 

 Mourning Dove, 280. 

 Mouse-ear chickweed, 343. 

 Mud Swallow ( = Cliff Swallow), 80, 273, 274. 

 Mulberries, 48, 250. 

 Mullein, 120. 



Multiplication. (See Increase. ) 

 Mitsca ccesar, 112, 118-119. 

 domestica, 113,119. 

 Muscidce, 102, 128, 291. 

 Mustard, 49, 249. 



Field, 343. 

 Mutilated or dead insects eaten, 131, 132. 

 Myiarehus crinitus, 80, 266, 277. 

 2Iyrmicidce, 110. 

 Myrtle Warbler, 80, 283. 



Killed by Sparrow, 283. 

 Myzine G-cincta, 111, 113, 114, 115. 

 Native birds, effects on, 78-98, 179, 260-283, 309, 317, 

 320. 

 Encouragement of, 152-153. 

 Food of, 99, 323. 

 Killed by Sparrows, 84, 86. 87, 88, 90, 91, 93, 94, 



95, 270, 276, 279, 283, 307, 339. 

 List of those molested, 80. 

 Neglected, 100. 

 Native sparrows, 80, 90, 323. 

 Natural checks, in America, 31-35 

 In Europe, 97, 98. 

 Natural enemies, 31-32, 97-98. 

 Nebraska bird-law, 170. 

 Nectar from blossoms, 344 (foot-note). 

 Nectarines in Australia, 349, 351. 

 Negative evidence, on bird-molestation, 86-87. 

 On bud-destruction, 42-43. 

 On fruit destruction, 49-51. 

 On grain destruction, 77-78. 

 Neglect of native birds, 100. 

 Xephelodes violans, 102, 286. 

 Nesting boxes removed, 36. 

 2s esting habits, change in, 24. 

 Nesting places, scarcity of, 34, 95. 

 Nesting rubbish chokes gutters, spouts, etc, 147- 



148, 352. 

 Nestlings of native birds, killed by Sparrows, 84, 



86, 87, 88, 90, 91, 93, 276, 279. 

 Nestlings of Sparrow, killed by native birds, 274, 

 282. 

 Food of, 103, 104, 124, 125, 128, 129, 132, 

 287, 289, 290, 291, 292, 293, 295, 296, 297, 

 299, 300, 305, 331,- 337, 338, 340, 342, 344, 

 345. 

 Stomach, contents of, 103-104, 124. 

 Nestlings in August, 237. 



Nests of native birds at Cleveland, Ohio, 277. 

 Nests of Sparrow, in gas-lamps, 147. 



In gutters, spouts, etc , 147-148". 

 In trees, 24. 

 Nests and eggs, destruction of, 36, 37, 38, 41, 165. 

 Nets and their use, 151, 165, 183-191. 

 Netting, over fruit and vegetables. 47, 65. 

 Netting Sparrows, 178-191. 

 Neuroptera, 119, 120, 289. 

 Nevada bird-law, 170-171. 

 New Hampshire bird-law, 171. 

 New Jersey bird-law, 171. 

 New Mexico, no sparrow law in, 171. 

 New York bird-law, 171 



New Zealand, habits of Sparrow in, 302-303, 320„ 

 357. 

 Poison used in, 132. 

 New-sowu grain damaged, 255, 259. 

 Newspapers, extracts from, 318-319. 

 Xezara hilaris, 123. 

 Niagara grape injured by birds, 53. 

 Night-hawk, disappearance of, 283. 

 Noctuidas, 112, 297. 

 Noctuid larvae, 113, 114, 115, 131. 

 Noise of the Sparrow, 149. 

 Nonpareil, Painted Finch, 80, 264, 280. 

 North Carolina, no sparrow law in, 171. 

 Northern Shrike, Butcher Bird, 31, 233, 238, 276. 

 Norton grape, 324. 

 Notes of the Sparrow, 149. 

 Noxious insects in Sparrows' stomachs, 134, 135, 



136, 137, 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143. 

 Noxious and innoxious insects, 121. 

 Number of broods and young reared by Sparrow, 



27. 192, 193. 

 Number of eggs laid by Sparrow, 27, 193. 

 Nuthatch, White-bellied, 80. 

 Nuthatches, 80, 152-153, 279. 

 Nuttall Ornithological Club, 303-304. 

 Nux vomica, 174, 177, 350. 



Oats, injury to, 68, 71, 72, 73-74, 77, 134, 135, 136, 137, 

 138, 139, 140, 141, 142, 143,144, 145, 146, 253, 

 254, 255, 256, 257, 258, 259, 260. 

 In stomachs, 134, 135 136, 137, 138, 139, 140 r 



141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146. 

 Number of reports on, 68. 

 Objections to bounties, 158-161. 

 Observation, data derived from, 101. 

 (Edipoda Carolina, 127, 301, 313, 329. 

 Official Sparrow-killers, 150, 151-152. 

 Ohio, bounty-law in, 150, 171-172. 



Estimated cost of exterminating Sparrows, 



in, 154-161. 

 Estimated number of Sparrows in, 154. 

 Old-field Sparrow, 279. 

 Olives injured, 349. 

 Omissions explained, 12, 199. 

 Opinion versus evidence, 12-13, 199. 

 Orange buds and blossoms injured, 45, 47. 

 Orange peel in stomach, 145. 

 Orchard Oriole, 80, 83, 268, 278, 280. 

 Oregon, no sparrow law in, 172. 

 Organized attacks on native birds, 86-87. 

 Orgyia leucostigma, 100, 102, 107, 109, 121, 125-126, 



129, 130, 131, 291, 292, 293, 294, 324-325. 



