INDEX 
Note. —(1) Scientific names of birds consisting of two terms are entered but once, under the genus; as, 
Tardus mustelinus. (2) But vernacular names of two terms are entered twice; as, TFood thrush, and Thrush, 
wood (3) Anatomical and other technical terms are fully indexed as occurring in Part II., where they are 
defined and explained; but not as occurring in Parts III. and IV., where they are simply used in describing 
birds. (4) Names of birds, both scientific and vernacular, are fully indexed as occurring in Parts III. and IV.. 
but usually not as incidentally occurring in Parts I. and II. in illustration of the zoological and anatomical 
characters there noted. (5) Names merely appearing in the text, not as headhigs, are usuxtlly not indexed; many 
such however, will be found, especially such as are not elsewhere formally treated. (6) Synonyms, both scientific 
and vernacular, are indexed. (7) Matters of field-work and taxidermy treated in Part I. are fully indexed by 
one or more leading words; as. Insect pests, and Pests, insect. (8) Names of persons mentioned or of authors 
quoted are not indexed. (9) The whole work is so fully indexed that the Index .will serve as a glossary of the 
terminology of ornithology. (.10) All the figures refer to pages. 
Abdomen 95, 96 
Abducent nerves 177 
Abduction of wing 108 
Abert's towhee 398 
Acadian owl 513 
Acanthisitta 269 
Accentor 
aquatic 309 
golden-crowned 308 
Accessory 
bone of shoulder 107 
metatarsal 119 
Accidents from the gun 19 
Accipiter 527 
cooperi 528 
fuscus 528 
nisus 194, 527 
Accipitres 496, 498, 517 
Accipitrinae 526 
Accommodation of eve 178 
Acetabulum 119, 148 
Acromial process 146 
Acromion 146 
Acromvodi 240 
Acromyodian 205, 239 
Acropodium 124 
Acrotarsium 124 
Acryllium vulturinum 575 
Actodromas 625 
acuminata 628 
bairdi 625 
bonapartii 627 
cooperi 627 
maculata 626 
minutilla 625 
Adduction of wing 108 
Adrenals 46, 216 
yEchmophorus 793 
clarki 794 
occidentalis 793 
^chmorhynchus parvirostris 618 
iEgialites 600 
cantianus 603 
circunicinctus 602 
iEgialites 
curonicus 603 
hiaticula 603 
melodus 602 
microrhynchus 603 
nivosus 603 
semipalmatus 602 
vociferus 000 
wilsonius 601 
^giothus 352 
exilipes 353 
holboelli 353 
hornemanui 353 
linaria 252 
iEgithognathism 172 
iEgithognathous skull 172 
iEgotheles 448 
^pyornis maximus 65, 221 
Aetomorplue 496 
Afferent function of nerves 174 
After-shaft 84 
Age, recognition of a bird's 46 
Ageloeinae 400 
Agelajus 403 
gubernator 404 
phoeniceus 404 
tricolor 404 
Agelastes meleagrides 575 
Agvrtria linnaei 459 
Air-bone 168 
Air-cells 200 
Air-gun 3 
Aix 697 
galericulata 698 
sponsa 698 
Ajaja 651 
rosea 651 
Alaskan 
jay 425 
winter wren 279 
Ala spuria 109 
Alauda 282 
arvensis 283 
Alaudidae 69, 239, 280 
Alaudinae 282 
Albatross 
black 776 
black-footed 775 
short-tailed 775 
sooty 776 
Albatrosses 774, 776 
Alca 819 
impennis 819 
Alcedinid{B 468 
Alcedininse 469 
Alcedo ispida 469 
Alcidae 797 
Alcinae 810 
Alcohol, use of 21 
Alcyone 126, 127 
Alectorides 665, 823 
Alectoromorphae 171, 572 
Alectoropodes 573 
Aletornis 
bellus, 824 
gracilis 824 
nobilis 823 
pernix 824 
venustus 824 
Aleutian 
auk 810 
sandpiper 629 
tern 708 
Alexander humming-bird 462 
Aliethmoid 153 
A imentarv canal 209 
Alinasal 153 
Aliseptal 153 
Alisphenoid 158 
Alle 810 
nigricans 810 
Allen's rosv finch 350 
Allied robin 244 
Altrices 88 
Aluco 501 
flammeus 502 
pratincola 502 
AluconidiB 500 
