834 
INDEX. 
Bitterns 
dwarf 664 
Biziura lobata 699 
Black 
albatross 776 
brant 688 
duck 691 
grouse 578 
guillemot 814 
hawk 549 
03'ster-catclier 607 
petrel 781 
pewit flycatcher 437 
rail 674 
red-tail 545 
scoter 713 
skimmer 772 
snow-bird 377 
tern 770 
white -winged tern 770 
vulture 560 
warrior 543 
witch 472 
Black-and-white 
creeper 290 • 
spotted woodpeckers 480 
Black-and-yellow 
oriole 409 
warbler 304 
Black-backed three-toed wood- 
pecker 485 
Black -bellied 
plover 598 
sandpiper 631 
Black-billed cuckoo 475 
Blackbird 404 
brewer's 411 
marsh 404 
red-winged 404 
red-winged marsh 404 
red-and-buff shouldered marsh 
404 
skunk 400 
red-shouldered marsh 404 
red - and - white shouldered 
marsh 404 
savanna 472 
thrush 411 
white-winged 387 
yellow-headed 404 
Blackbirds etc. 399 
crow 410, 412 
marsh 400, 403 
thrush 411 
j^ellow-headed 404 
Black-breasted 
longspur 359 
sandpiper 630 
woodpecker 487 
Blackburnian warbler 302 
Black-capped 
flycatching warbler 313 
gnat-catcher 261 
greenlet 336 
petrel 779 
titmouse 265 
Black-chinned sparrow 381 
Black-crested titmouse 265 
Black-crowned night heron 662 
Black-eared bush-tit 268 
Black-faced 
grass quit 392 
sage sparrow 376 
Black-headed 
ducks 699 
goldfinch 356 
Black-headed 
gull 750 
jay 422 
oriole 410 
song grosbeak 389 
turnstone 609 
Black-footed albatross 775 
Black-necked s^tilt 612 
Black-poll warbler 303 
Black-shouldered 
kite 525 
longspur 358 
Black- throated 
blue warbler 300 
bunting 387 
diver 791 
pacific 791 
gray Avarbler 300 
green warbler 298 
murrelet 811 
Black-vented shearwater 786 
Black-Avhiskered greenlet 332 
Bladder 217 
Blade-bone 146 
Blanding's finch 398 
Blasipus 741, 747 
Blastoderm 225 
Blastodermic membrane 225 
Blastula 225 
Blastulation 225 
Bleached yell.-wing'd sparrow 366 
Blood 196 
corpuscles 196 
stains 37 
Blowing eggs 51 
Blow-gun 3 
Blow-pipe 51 
Blue 
crow 418 
golden-winged warbler 294 
grosbeak 390 
grouse 579 
hawk 521 
hen hawk 530 
jay 421 
quail 593 
snow goose 685 
yellow-backed warbler 290 
Blue and white herons 661 
Blue-bill 701 
Blue-bird 
arctic 258 
mexican 258 
rocky mountain 258 
west"ei-n 258 
Blue-birds 256, 257 
Blue-eyed yellow warbler 298 
Blue-fronted jay 422 
Blue-gray gnat-catcher 261 
Blue-headed 
grackle 411 
greenlet 333 
quail dove 571 
quake-tail 284 
saw-bill 468 
Blue-stocking 611 
Blue-throat, red-spotted 258 
Blue-throated redstart 258 
Blue-throats 258 
Blue -winged 
teal 696 
yellow warbler 293 
Boat-billed heron 654 
Boat-tailed 
crow blackbird 412 
grackle 412 
Bobolink 400 
Bob-white 
Body proper 02. 93 
topographv of 94 
Bog-bull 664 
Bog- sucker 619 
Bohemian waxwing 326 
Bonaparte's rosy gull 751 
Bonasa 584 
betulina 578 
sabinii 585 
umbelloides 585 
umbella 585 
Bone, structure of 134 
Bone-breaker 777 
Bone-tissue 149 
Bones 
of the hind limb 118 
of the wing 106 
Bonv basis of the tail 114 
Booby 720 
Book-keeping, ornithological 22 
Booted tarsus 124, 125 
Botaurinaj 654, 650, 603 
Botaurus 664 
mugitans 664 
Boucard's summer finch 375 
Bow-billed thrasher 252 ♦ 
Bower-birds 224 
Brachial plexus 177 
Brachium 106 
Brachyotus 507 
Brachyrhamphus 812 
brachypterus 814 
craverii 814 
hvpoleucus 813 
klttlitzi 813 
marmoratus 813 
Brain of birds 175, 176 
Brandt's 
cormorant 728 
rosy finch 351 
Brant 
geese 686 
goose 686 
Brant, white 685 
Brant-bird 609 
Brass 
cowbird 403 
grackle 413 
Breast 95 
Breast-bone 143 
Breech-loader 2 
Brewer's 
blackbird 411 
sparrow 381 
Brewster's linnet 353 
Bridal ducks 697 
Bride 698 
Bridled 
tern 769 
titmouse 265 
Bristle-bellied 
curlew 646 
woodpeckers 490 
Broad-tailed humming-bird 463 
Broad-winged buzzard 548 
Bronchial svrinx 205 
Bronchiales'205 
Broncho-tracheal syrinx 205 
Broncho-tracheales 205 
Bronzed 
cowbird 403 
crow blackbird 413 
Brotherly-love greenlet 332 
Brown crane 667 
