﻿GENERAL INDEX. 



A. 



.Egithalus Capensis, 184. 



Africa, works on its ornithology, 



299. 216. On collecting in, 251. 

 America, works on its ornithology, 



210. 216. On collecting in, 257. 

 Analogical resemblances, upon, 



345. 348. 



Analogies of the orders of birds 

 and quadrupeds, 16. Of the 

 animal kingdom and the Verte- 

 brata, 6. Of the falcon family 

 and the Insessores, 291. Of the 

 genus Falco to the Falconidas, 

 303. Of the genus Strix, 335. 

 Of the Insessores and the orders, 

 343. Of the Insessores and the 

 Mammalia, 344. Of the Denti- 

 rostres and Insessores, 349. Of 

 the Dentirostres and Conirostres, 

 351. Of the Dentirostres and 

 Scansores, 352. Of the Denti- 

 rostres and Tenuirostres, 354. 

 Of the Dentirostres and Fissiros- 

 tres, 356. Of the Fissirostres and 

 Scansores, 357. Of the Insessores 

 and Scansores, 359. Of the In- 

 sessores and Fissirostres, 360. 



Anatomy, internal and external, 

 19. 



Aptenodytes, their swimming 

 powers, 162, 



Aquila, the restricted genus, 307. 



Arranging birds, modes of, 274. 



Asia, works on its ornithology, 209. 

 On collecting in, 253. 



Asio, the horned owls, 327. 



Aster, the goshawks, 305. 



Asturina, an uncertain type, 319, 



Audubon, his obsolete nomencla- 

 ture, 210. 



Australia, works on its ornithology, 

 213. 220. On collecting in, 255. 



B. 



Beef-eater,"the foot described, 145. 

 Ben tevi tyrant, 37. 



Bibliography, ornithological, 200. 

 Bill of birds, 59. 



Bills, their comparative length, 63L 

 Birds, peculiarities of, as a class, 3. 



Primary types of, 8. Primary 



divisions of, 11. 

 Body of birds, 24. 

 Bristles, nuchal, 74. 

 Buteo, the buzzards, 313. 

 Buteo vulgaris, 316. 

 Buteo pterocles and borealis, 317. 

 Buzzards, characters of, 293. The 



genus of, 313. 



C. 



Cabinets for birds, sizes of, 277. 



Caprimulgidas, the bill of, 64, 



Cases for holding birds, 276. 



Cathartes, American vultures, 282. 



Catheturus Australis, 288. 



Centropus, feathers of, 43. 



Cephalopterus ornatus, 41. 



Chaffinch, crest of, 32. 



Circastus, an uncertain type, 319. 



Circle of the genus Falco, 303. Of 

 the Falconidze, 318. OftheStri- 

 gidas, 332. Of the genus Strix, 

 335. Of the order Insessores, 342. 



Circus, the henharriers, 314. Mode 

 of their hunting, 293. 



Climbing feet, different sorts of, 

 122. 133. 



Clinging feet, 131. 



Collecting birds, remarks on, 247. 



Condor, Sarcoramphus, 281. 



Conirostres, the tribe of, 339. 



Corythaix, crest of, 41. 



Cracida?, have a perching foot, 154. 



Crests of birds, 30. 



Crows, on the language of, 171. 



Cuckoo, its foot described, 152. 



Curtipedes, the characters oi, 338. 



! 340. 



Cyraindis, the true kites, 309. 31 L 

 D. 



Dendrocolaptes, the foot described, 

 139. 



