858 
INDEX. 
Spotty-throat sandpipers 625 
Sprague's pipit 286 
Sprig-tail 692 
Spruce 
grouse 578 
partridge 578 
Spurious primary 113 
Spurred towhee 397 
Spurs 
of wing 114 
of foot 132, 133 
Spur-winged birds 114 
Squamosal 
bone 157 
process 157 
Squatarola 598 
helvetica 598 
Squawk 662 
Stake-driver 664 
Stands for birds 44 
Stapedial 
cai'tilage 154 
elements 186 
Stapes 185 
Star buzzards 551 
Starling 427 
Starlings 
american 399 
meadow 405 
old world 426 
typical 426 
Starnoenadinae 571 
Starnoenas 571 
cyanocephala 571 
Starry hummers 465 
Steathornithinoc 448 
Steatornis 448 
Steganopodes 718, 824 
Steganopus 612 
wilsoni 612 
Stelgidopteryx 324 
serripennis 324 
Steller's 
eider 709 
jav 421 
Stellula 465 
calliope 465 
Stenonine duct 210 
Stephens' greenlet 335 
Stercorarius 734 
buffoni 738 
parasiticus 736 
pomatorhinus 735 
skua 734 
Sterna 756 
aleutica 768 
anaesthetica 769 
anglica 757 
antillarum 766 
cantiaca 761 
caspia 757 
dougalli 766 
elegans 760 
forsteri 763 
fuliginosa 768 
hirundo 762 
macrura 764 
maxima 759 
superciliaris 766 
trudeaui 767 
Sterne^e 756 
Sterninoe 754 
Stcvno-tracheales 202 
Sternum 143 
Sthenelus melanocor^'-pha 682 
Stigma of ovisac 221 
Stilt 611 
petrel 783 
sandpiper 623 
stormy petrel 782 
Stilts 609, 611 
Stimulation 21 
Stint 
american 625 
Wilson's 625 
Stock-dove 565 
Stomach, examining 47 
Stone-chat 256 
Stone-snipe 638 
Storage, cases for 56 
Stork series 652 
Storks 652, 653 
true 653 
Stormy 
petrel 781 
petrels 780 
Stragulum 95 
Strepsilainae 608 
Strepsilas 608 
interpres 609 
melanocephalus 609 
Strickland's woodpecker 482 
Striges 498 
StrigidiB 502 
Strigina; 502 
Stringopinai 495 
Stringops habroptilus 76, 238, 495 
Striped flycatchers 431 
Strisores 445 
Strix 508 
alleni 510 
aluco 508 
cinerea 509 
lapponica 509 
nebulosa 509 
occidentalis 510 
Struthio 170 
Struthious birds 69, 238, 825 
Structure 
anatomical 133 
epidermic 82 
of birds 59 
of feathers 84 
types of 74 
Stuffing birds 40 
Sturnella 405 
magna 400 
mexicana 400 
neglecta 406 
Sturnellinae 405 
Sturnidae 426 
Sturninae 426 
Sturnus 426 
vulgaris 427 
Stylo-hyal 180 
Stylo-hyoid 211 
Sub-, the prefix 78 
Subgenus 80 
Submaxillarv line 98 
Subocular bar 152 
Subspecies 79 
Success, qualifications for 5 
Sula 720 
bassana 720 
leucogastra 720 
loxostyla 824 
Sulcate claws 133 
Sulci 103 
Sulcus, nasal 104 
Sulidai 720 
Sulphide of carbon 57 
i Sulphur-bellied flycatcher 431 
Sultan gallinules 675 
Summer 
duck 698 
finch 
arizona 374 
bachman's 373 
bay-winged 375 
boucard's 375 
cassin's 374 
Illinois 373 
rufous-crowned 374 
finches 373 
redbird 318 
tanagers 317 
warbler 298 
vellow-bird 298 
Sun-birds 666 
Super-, the prefix 78 
Superior maxillary nerve 177 
Supernature 59 
Superorbital gland 178 
Supination 109 
Supra-occipital 156 
Supra-orbital 97 
Supra-renal capsules 46 
Surangular bone 166 
Surf 
duck 714 
ducks 713 
Surf-bird 605 
Surnia 511 
funerea 511 
ulula 512 
Suspensorium of mandible 152 
Suture of bones 134 
Swainson's 
buzzard 546 
rosv finch 351 
warbler 292 
Swallow 
bank 320 
barn 322 
chimney 457 
cliff 323 
crescent 323 
eaves 323 
mud 323 
rough-winged 324 
violet-green 323 
white-bellied 322 
Swallows 319 
bank 323 
barn 321 
cliff 323 
iris 322 
rough-winged 323 
violet-velvet 322 
Swallow-tailed 
flycatcher 431 
gull 753 
kite 526 
kites 525 
Swamp 
song sparrow 370 
warblers, golden 291 
Swan 
bewick's 683 
common american 682 
whistling 682 
whooping 683 
trumpeter 682 
Swans 681 
white 682 
Swift 
chimne}"" 457 
northern black cloud 457 
