840 
INDEX. 
Eastern 
bluebird 257 
fox sparrow 385 
hermit thrush 247 
house wren 278 
snow-bird 377 
Eaves swallow 323 
Ecdvsis 88 
Ectoderm 226 
Ectopistes 565 
migratorius 566 
Educabilia 76 
Efferent nerves 174 
Egg 216 
anatomv of 222 
Egg-drills 51 
Egg-laying 223 
Egg-pod 222 
Egg-shell 223 
reinforcing 53 
Eggs 
collecting 50 
labeling 53 
preparing 51 
shapes of 223 
Egret 
great white 658 
little white 660 
louisiana 661 
peale's 661 
reddish 661 
Egrets 
demoiselle 660 
dichroic 661 
Eider 
spectacled 710 
steller's 709 
european 710 
american 712 
pacific 712 
king 712 
Eiders, 708 
Elaeodochon 86 
Elanoides 525 
forficatus 526 
Elanus 525 
glaucus 525 
Elbow-joint 106, 107 
Elegant tern 760 
Elf owls 515, 516 
Emargination of remiges 112 
Emberiza hortulana 401 
Embernagra 398 
rufivirgata 398 
Embryological characters 70 
Embryology 216, 224 
Embryos 216, 217 
extracting 52 
Emperor goose 686 
Empidonax 440 
acadicus 441 
difficilis 442 
flaviveutris 442 
hammondi 443 
minimus 442 
obscurus 443 
pusillus 442 
pygma!us 443 
subviridis 441 
train i 441 
wrighti 443 
Encephalon 175 
Endoderm 226 
cells 225 
Endolymph 190 
Endoskeleton 134 
Endysis 88 
English 
pheasant 574 
snipe 614, 621 
sparrow 344 
Engyptila 567 
albifrons 567 
Environment, conditions of 72 
Eocene birds 64 
Epapophysis cerebri 175 
Epiblast 226 
Epibranchial 167 
Epicleidium 147 
Epidermic structures 82 
Epididymis 217 
Epigastrium 96 
Epiglottis 204, 210 
Epignathous bills 101 
Epiotic 157, 187 
Epiphj'ses 134 
Epipleural processes 142 
Epipubic bone 149 
Equilibration 190 
Equivalence of groups 73 
Eremophila 281 
alpestris 281 
chrysolaema 282 
leucolsema 282 
Ereunetes 624 
occidentalis 625 
pusillus 624 
Erismatura 715 
rubida 715 
Erythrocnema 542 
Esacus 597 
Eskimo curlew 646 
Ethmoid 160 
Etypic characters 76 
Eudocimus 651 
albus 651 
ruber 651 
Eugenes 461 
fulgens 461 
Euplocomus 575 
Eupodotis austral is 212 
Eupsychortyx 588 
European 
black-tailed godwit 636 
blue heron 658 
coot 677 
cuckoo 471 
curlew 644 
dunlin 631 
eared grebe 795 
eider duck 710 
great white egret 659 
golden plover 600 
goshawk 529 
green-winged teal 695 
hawk owl 512 
herring gull 743 
jackdaw 414 
.lay 419 
kingfisher 469 
land-rail 675 
lesser ring plover 603 
little white egret 660 
mew gull 746 
oyster-catcher 606 
partridge 588 
ring plover 603 
snipe 621 
sparrow owl 513 
spoonbill 650 
spotted crake 673 
spotted woodpecker 477 
European 
whimbrel 645 
white-fronted goose 684 
wigeon 694 
woodcock 620 
wren 273 
Eurynorhynchus 634 
pygm£eus 634 
Eurypyga helias 665 
Eustachian tube 158, 185, 210 
Evening grosbeak 342 
Everglade kite 523 
Evidences of design 77 
Evolution, theory of 60, 62, 66 
Exanthemops 686 
Exoccipital 156 
Exocoetes 82 
Exoskeletal structures 82 
Exoskeleton 134 
Explanation of frontispiece 236 
Extension and flexion of wing 106, 
109 
Extensor muscles 199 
" Extent" 24 
Exterior of a bird 82, 92 
Extinct birds 64 
Eye 92, 178, 179 
Eye-water 38 
E3'es, glass 44 
Facial 
bones 161 
nerve 177, 187 
Falcate bill 102 
Falco 532 
a3salon 537 
candicans 533 
columbarius 536 
fuscicoerulescens 539 
gyrfaico 532 
isabellinus 538 
islandicus 532 ^ 
labradora 533 
lanarius 534 
mexicanus 534 
obsoletus 532 
pealii 536 
peregrinus 534 
polyagrus 534 
richardsoni 537 
sacer 532 
sparverioides 538 
sparverius 537 
suckleyi 537 
Falcon 
aplomado 539 
femoral 539 
peale's peregrine 536 
peregrine 534 
rusty-crowned 537 
Falconidtje 519 
Falconinae 531 
Falcons 519, 531 
Fallopian nerviduct 187 
False cere 102 
Family 72, 73 
Fan-tailed 
crow blackbird 412 
wrens 274 
Farallone black crake 674 
Fasciae 192 
Fat, fatness 37 
Fatigue and hunger 20 
Fauces 210 
Feathered tracts 86 
Feather-leg sandpipers 628 
