INDEX. 
Ciconiiformes 653 
Ciconiinae 653 
Ciliary- 
ganglion 177 
ligament 183 
muscle 183 
processes 183 
Cincinnati warbler 293 
Cinereous 
shearwater 784 
snow-bird 379 
song-sparrow 372 
Cinclinre 242, 255 
Cinclus 255 
aquaticus 254 
mexicanus 255 
Cinnamon teal 696 
Circe hummers 467 
Circe humming-bird 467 
Circinaj 521 
Circle of willis 198 
Circulatory system 195 
Circumorbital region 97 
Circus 521 
hudsonius 521 
cyaneus 522 
Cistothorus 280 
stellaris 280 
Cladorhvnchus pectoralis 610 
Clamatores 239, 427 
Clangula 704 
albeola 705 
glaucium 704 
islandica 106, 119, 202, 704 
Clapper rail 672 
Clarke's crow 418 
Clark's grebe 794 
Class 72, 73 
of birds 61 
Classes of birds' bills 101 
Classification 
of birds 59, 80 
of N. Am. birds 234 
machinery of 78 
principles and practice of 65 
morphological 66, 68 
Clavicles 147 
Clavicular process 146 
Clawed buzzard 552 
Claws 
of foot 132 
of wing 108, 114 
Clay-colored sparrow 381 
Cleavage 
cavity 225 
cell 224 
Clefts, visceral 152 
Cleido-trachealis 202 
Cliff swallow 323 
Climacteris 272 
Clinoid walls 153 
Cloaca 214 
Cloud swifts 457 
Cnemial process 119 
Cobb 742 
Coccothraustes 342 
Coccygeal vertebrae 114, 141 
Coccyginae 474 
Coccygus 474 
americanus 476 
erythrophthalmus 475 
seniculus 476 
Coccvx 114, 142 
Cochlea 151, 188 
Cock 
chaparral 474 
Cock sage 580 
Cock of the plains 580 
Coeca 214 
Coecum 214 
Coereba 317 
Coerebidae 317 
Coffin-carrier 742 
Colaptes 491 
aurato-mexicanus 113, 492 
auratus 493 
ayresi 492 
chrj'soides 493 
hybridus 492 
mexicanus 493 
Coliida; 446 
Collar-bones 147 
Collared woodpecker 490 
Collecting 
birds 1 
nests and eggs 50 
Collecting-chest 27 
Collection, care of a 54 
Collector, to be a good 9 
Collectorship, hvgiene of 19 
Collocalia 224, 456 
Collum 96 
Colorado screech owl 506 
turkey 653 
Columba 564 
erythrina 565 
fasciata 565 
leucocephela 565 
livia 565 
oenas 565 
palumbus 562 
Columbas 561 
Columbidae 562 
Columbinae 564 
Columbine birds 561, 562 
Columella auris 185 
Colymbidffi 789 
Colymbus 789 
adamsi 790 
arcticus 791 
pacificus 791 
septentrionalis 791 
torquatus 789 
Combatant 640 
Combs 98 
Commissural 
line 105 
point 105 
Commissure 105 
Common 
atlantic shearwater 785 
brown crane 667 
caracara 539 
cormorant 726 
cow-bird 402 
crow blackbird 413 
european buzzard 547 
gallinule 675 
gannet 720 
kittiwake 748 
loon 789 
puffin 802 
quail of europe 595 
rail 673 
red-poll 352 
savannah sparrow 363 
sharp-tailed grouse 581 
tern 762 
wild goose 688 
Common american 
buzzard 546 
crow 417 
Common american 
gull 745 
shrike 338 
Complicate tail 118 
Complications in skinning 34 
Compressed tarsus 125 
Conditions of environment 73 
Condor, californian 558 
Condyles 
occipital 156 
of femur 119 
of humerus 107 
Conirostral 101 
Conjunctiva 179, 181 
Conjuncto-carotidina? 198 
Connecticut warbler 309 
Consciousness 174 
Conspecies 79 
Contopus 438 
borealis 438 
pertinax 439 
richardsoni 440 
virens 439 
Contour of a bird 91 
Contour-feathers 85 
Contractor tracheae 202 
Conurus 496 
carolinensis 496 
Cooper's 
buzzard 543 
crested flycatcher 435 
hawk 528 
sandpiper 627 
tanager 318 
Coot 
american 676 
european 677 
sea 713, 714 
Coot-foot phalaropes 614 
Coot-footed tringa 614 
Coots 676 
Copper-tailed trogou 468 
Coraciidae 446 
Coracoid bone 107, 146 
Coracomorphae 172 
Cormorant 
baird's 729 
brandt's 728 
common 726 
double-crested 727 
florida 727 
mexican 728 
pallas's 728 
red-faced 728 
tufted 728 
violet-green 729 
white-tufted 727 
Cormorants 723 
Corn crake 675 
Cornea 179, 182 
Corneous covering of bill 102 
Cornua of hyoid 167 
Corona 97 
Coronoid process 166 
Corpora bigemina 175 
Corpus 
callosum 176 
striatum 175 
Corrosive sublimate 57 
Corvidae 414 
Corvinae 415 
Corvus 415 
caurinus 417 
corax 416, 172 
cryptoleucus 416 
floridanus 417 
