INDEX. 
847 
Lesser 
coverts 110 
scaup duck 701 
snow goose 686 
tell-tale 638 
Lestornis crassipes 827 
Lestridinae 734 
Leucocytes 196 
Leucosticte 350 
arctoa 352 
atrata 350 
austvalis 350 
griseiiuicha 351 
litoralis 351 
tephrocotis 351 
Lewis' woodpecker 490 
Lightning hummers 462 
Likeness, degrees of 71 
Limicola platyrhyncha 617 
Limicolae 596, 823 
Limosa 616, 634 
aegocephala 636 
foeda 635 
haemastica 635 
lapponica 636 
novae-zealandiae 636 
uropygialis 636 
Limpkiu 668 
Lincoln's song sparrow 370 
Lingula 151 
Lining of wings 110, 111 
Linnet 
brewster's 353 
pine 354 
Linnets 340, 353 
red-poll 352 
Linota 353 
flavirostris brewsteri 353 
Little 
black crake 674 
black-headed duck 701 
blue heron 661 
buff flycatchers 443 
horned owls 504 
olivaceous flycatchers 440 
seed-eater 392 
western flycatcher 442 
white egret 660 
heron 661 
Liver 215 
Lobate foot 131 
Lobation 131 
Lobe-foot phalarope 613 
Lobes 98 
Lobipes 613 
hyperboreus 613 
Lobivanellus 597, 669 
Loddigesia 
mirabilis 115 
Loggerhead shrike 338 
Lomvia 816 
atfinis 825 
arra 817 
antiqua 825 
californica 817 
svarbag 818 
troile 816 
Long-billed 
curlew 645 
marsh wren 279 
Long-crested jay 422 
Long-eared owl 507 
Long-exserted tail-feathers 116 
Longirostral 101 
Longipennes 732, 825 
Long-legged tattler 638 
Long-shanks 611 
Longspur 
black-breasted 359 
black-shouldered 358 
bay-winged 359 
chestnut-collared 358 
lapland 357 
painted 358 
white-tailed 358 
Long-spurs 357, 359 
Long-tailed 
chat 312 
chickadee 266 
duck 706 
jager 738 
Long-winged swimmers 732 
Loon 
black-throated 791 
pacific black-throated 791 
red-throated 791 
yellow-billed 780 
'.oons 789 
Loose plumage 36 
Lophodytes 716 
Lopholaemus 564 
Lophophanes 264 
atrocristatus 265 
bicolor 264 
inornatus 264 
wollweberi 265 
Lophophorus 575 
Lophortyx 591 
californica 592 
gambeli 893 
Loph osteon 143 
Loral 98 
Lords and ladies 708 
Lore 98 
Lorum 98 
Louisiana 
clapper rail 672 
egret 061 
pipit 286 
water thrush 309 
Love doves 568 
Low " in scale of organization 77 
Lower larynx 204 
Loxia 348 
americana 349 
icucoptera 348 
mexicana 350 
Loxiine finches 340 
Lucifer 
hummers 466 
humming-bird 466 
Lucy's warbler 294 
Lumbar vertebrae 140 
Lunda 803 
cirrata 804 
Lungs of birds 200 
Lustre doves 570 
Lymph 199 
Lymphatic system 195 
Lymphatics 199 
Lyre-bird 116 
Lyrurus tetrix 578 
Macartneys 575 
Macgillivray's warbler 311 
Machetes 640 
pugnax 640 
iVIachinerv of classification 78 
]\[acrodactyli 665 
Macropygia 564 
Macrorhamphus 622 
Macrorhamphus 
griseus 622 
scolopaceus 622 
semipalmatus 616 
Magnolia 304 
Magnum 107 
Magpie 420 
yellow-billed 421 
Magpies 420 
Maize-thief 404 
Mala 98 
Malacorhynchus membranaceous 
690 
Malar region 98 
Mallard 690, 691 
Malleus 162 
Mammalia 60, 69 
Mandible 100, 166 
under 103 
upper 104 
Mangrove cuckoo 476 
Mantle 95 
Man-of-war bird 731 
Manubrium 144 
Manus 106, 108 
Manx shearwater 786 
Marbled murrelet 813 
Marble-wing sandpiper 642 
Mareca 693 
americana 694 
penelope 694 
Marginal fringes of toes 131 
Marlin 635 
ring-tailed 636 
Marsh 
blackbird 404 
blackbirds 400, 403 
hawk 521 
hen 672 
hens 671 
oAvls 507 
robin 396 
tern 757 
wren 279, 280 
wrens 279, 280 
Marsupium 184 
Martin 
house 320 
purple 325 
sand 324 
Marjdand yellow-throat 310 
Masked woodpeckers 483 
Masking puffins 800 
Massena partridge 594 
Materialization 174 
Materials for taxidermy 25, 26 
Matrix of feathers 82 
Maxilla 98 
Maxillary 
bone 162 
line 98 
Maxillo-palatine 
bar 152 
bone 162 
Meadow 
pipit 285 
starlings 405 
Meadow lark 406 
mexican 406 
western 406 
Meadow-wink 400 
Mealy red-poll 353 
american 353 
greenland 353 
Measurements, directions for 24 
Meatus auditorius 97, 158 
