854 
INDEX. 
Quail 576, 589. See also Partridge 
arizona 593 
harlequin 594 
helmet 591 
messina 595 
migratory 595 
mountain 591 
old world 594 
plumed 591 
shell 593 
valley 591 
Quail 
doves 571 
sparrow 365 
Quake-tail, blue-headed 284 
Queen hummers 461) 
Querquedula 694 
carolinensis 695 
crecca 695 
cvanoptera 696 
dlscors 696 
Quesal 4p7 
Quill-feathers 112 
Quiscalinae 410 
Quiscalus 412 
aeneus 413 
aglaeus 414 
macrurus 412 
major 412 
purpureus 413 
Quit, black-faced grass 392 
Quits, grass 392 
Radiale 106, 107, 108 
Radius 106, 107 
Raft duck 701 
Rail 
California clapper 672 
Carolina 673 
clapper 672 
common 673 
european land 675 
king 672 
little black 674 
louisiana clapper 672 
Virginia 673 
j-ellow 673 
Rails 665, 669, 670, 671 
land 674 
Rallidse 669 
Ralliform birds 669 
Rallifonnes 669 
Rallinae 670 
Rallus 671 
crepitans 672 
elegans 672 
longirostris 672 
obsoletus 672 
saturatus 672 
virginianus 673 
Rami of bill 103 
Raptatores 496 
Raptores 496, 822 
Raptorial foot 130 
Rasores 571 
Rasorial foot 131 
Ratitae 69, 238, 825 
Ratite 
birds 238 
sternum 143 
Raven 
anierican 416 
white-necked 416 
Ravens 415 
Razor-billed auk 818 
Record of observations 21 
Recti muscles of eye 181 
Rectrices 115, 116' 
Recurvirostra 610 
americana 611 
avocetta 611 
Recurvirostridae 609 
Red 
cross-bill 349 
flamingo 679 
game 577 
owl 505 
phalarope 614 
ruffed grouse 585 
Red-and-buli-shouldered blackbird 
404 
Red-and-white - shouldered black- 
bird 404 
Red-backed 
humming-bird 462 
sandpiper 631 
snow-bird 379 
Red- bellied 
nuthatch 271 
snipe 623 
woodpecker 488 
Red-billed 
mud-hen 675 
pigeon 565 
tropic-bird 732 
Red-bird 
cardinal 393 
summer 318 
western summer 318 
Red-breasted 
merganser 717 
sandpiper 632 
snipe 622 
woodpecker 486 
Red-cockaded woodpecker 481 
Red-crested pochard 700 
Reddish egret 661 
Red-eved 
cowbird 403 
greenlet 331 
Red-faced cormorant 728 
Red -fronted flvcatching warbler 
314 
Red-head 702 
Red-head ducks 699 
Red-headed woodpecker 489 
Red-legged kittiwake 748 
Red-necked 
grebe 794 
phalarope 613 
Red-nosed auk 808 
Red-poll 
american mealy 353 
common 352 
greenland mealv 353 
holboll's 353 
linnets 352 
yellow warbler 307 
yellow-bellied warbler 307 
Red-shafted woodpecker 493 
Red-shouldered 
blackbird 404 
buzzard 545 
Red-spotted blue-throat 258 
Redstart 
american 316 
blue-throated 258 
Redstarts 315 
Red-tail 
krider's 545 
St. lucas 545 
western 545 
Red-tailed buzzard 544 
Red-throated 
diver 791 
woodpecker 487 
Red -winged 
blackbird 403 
blackbirds 404 
thrush 245 
Reed-bird 400 
Reed wrens 277 
Reeve 640 
Reflex action 174 
Refulgent humming bird 461 
Regions of the body 94 
Registration 21 
Regulinai 242, 259 
Regulus 259 
calendula 259 
olivaceus 260 
satrapa 259 
Reinhardt's gull 745 
Remiges 111 
Reptiles 60 
Respiration, organs of 199 
Respiratory system 199 
Restoration of poor skins 47 
Rete mirabile 199 
Reticulate tarsus 124, 125 
Reticulations of podotheca 124 
Retina 180 
Retrorse 105 
Rhachis 84 
Rhamphastidae 446 
Rhamphotheca 103 
Rhea 170 
Rhinencephalon 175 
Rhinoceros auks 805 
Rhinochcetus jubatus 665 
Rhinotheca 103 
Rhodostethia 752 
rosea 753 
Rhyacophihis 639 
' ochropus 639 
solitarius 639 
Rhyncha'a 616 
capensis 616 
semicoUaris 616 
Rhynchofalco 539 
Rhynchophanes 359 
maccowni 359 
Rhynchopina? 772 
Rhynchops 772 
nigra 772 
Ribs 142 
Riblets 138 
Rice-bird 400 
Richardson's 
dusky grouse 579 
pigeon hawk 537 
Rictal bristles 99 
Rictus 105 
Ridgway's rosv finch 350 
Rima glottidis'204 
Ring dove 565 
Ring plover 602 
european 603 
lesser european 603 
snowy 603 
Ring-neck 
duck 701 
plover 602 
Ring plovers 600 
Ring-billed gull 745 
Ring-tailed 
eagle 554 
marlin 636 
