INDEX. 
859 
Swift 
rock 456 
vaux's 458 
white-throated 456 
Swifts 455, 456 
chimney 457 
cloud 457 
rock 456 
spine-tailed 457 
Swiss plover 598 
Sylvia 
carbonata 308 
montana 308 
Sylvicolidai 287 
Sylvicolinaj 288, 289 
Symbolic formulation wanted 78 
Symmetrical figures from feathers 
83 
Sympathetic nervous system 174, 
177 
Symphemia 636 
semipalmata 637 
Symphysis 
mandibular 166 
pubic 147 
Syndactyle foot 129 
Syngnesious foot 129 
Svnopsis, systematic 
of n. a. birds 237 
of fossil birds 821 
Synthliborhamphus 811 
antiquus 811 
umizusume 812 
Syrinx 204, 239, 240 
Syrnium 511 
Systematic synopses 237, 811 
Tabular view of higher groups 
234 
Taction 191 
Tachybaptes 796 
Tachycineta 322 
thalassina 323 
Tachypetes 731 
aquilus 731 
Tachypetidae 730 
Tadorna vulpanser 684 
Tail 114 
shapes of the 117 
Tail-bones 114 
Tail-coverts 115 
Tail-sacrals 141 
Taking cold 19 
Tanager 
cooper's, 318 
crimson-headed 319 
hepatic 318 
louisiana 319 
rose 318 
scarlet 318 
summer 318 
western summer 318 
Tanagers 317 
summer 317 
Tanagridae 317 
Tantalinse 652 ' 
Tantalops 653 
loculator 653 
Tantalus 653 
ibis 653 
loculator 653 
Tarsal 
bones 119, 120 
cartilages of ej-e 180 
Tarso-metatarsus 119, 120 
Tarsus, 121, 122, 125, 239 
Taste, sense of 191 
Tattler 
bar tram's 641 
long-legged 631 
semipalmated 637 
short-legged 643 
wandering 643 
Tattlers 618 
green 639 
semipalmated 636 
solitary 639 
Taxidermy 28 
Taxonomic equivalence of groups 
73 
Taxonomj' 65 
Teal 694 
american green-winged 695 
blue-winged 696 
cinnamon 696 
european green-winged 696 
Tectrices 110, 115 
inferiores (tail) 115 
inferiores (wing) 110 
superiores (tail) 115 
superiores (wing) 110 
majores 110 
mediae 110 
minores 110 
Tegumentary system 82 
Telmatornis 
affinis 829 
priscus 829 
Teleotype 75, 76 
Teleot^'^pic groups 76 
Telma'todytes 279 
paludicola 279 
palustris 279 
Teraminck's auk 812 
Temporal 
bone 157 
region 97 
Tendons of wing 109 
Tengmalm's owl 513 
Tennessee warbler 295 
Tensor patagii 193 
Tenuirostral 101 
Terekia cinerea 617 
Teretristis 287, 311 
Tergum 95 
Tern 
aleutian 768 
arctic 764 
black 770 
bridled 769 
Caspian 757 
cayenne 759 
common 762 
ducal 761 
elegant 760 
forster's 763 
gull-billed 757 
imperial 757 
least 766 
marsh 757 
noddy 771 
paradise 766 
princely 760 
royal 759 
roseate 766 
sandwich 761 
short-tailed 770 
sooty 768 
trudeau's 767 
white-headed 767 
white-winged 770 
Tern 
Wilson's 762 
Terns 754, 756 
Tertials 113 
Tertiaries 113 
Tertiary birds 64, 822 
Testes, Testicles, 45, 46, 215, 
217 
Tetradactyle birds 126 
Tetraonidas 576 
Tetraoninae 577 
Tetrao urogallus 578 
Tetrapteryx 666 
Texan, Texas 
beardless flycatcher 444 
cardinal 393 
grackle 412 
green kingfisher 470 
guan 573 
night-hawk 454 
orchard oriole 408 
quail 591 
screech owl 506 
sparrow 398 
thrasher 251 
woodpecker 481 
wren 277 
Thalamencephalon 175 
Thalasseus 756 
Thalassidroma 776 
Thalassornis leuconota 699 
Thamnophilus 205 
Theorv of evolution 60, 62 
Thick-billed night-herons 663 
Thigh or thigh-bone 119 
Thinornis zelandiae 597 
Thin skins 36 
Thistle-bird 354 
Thoracic 
duct 199 
vertebrae 139 
Thorax 142 
Thrasher 251 
arizona 252 
bow-billed 252 
crissal 254 
California 253 
curve-billed 252 
st. lucas 253 
sage 249 
texas 251 
vuma 254 
Thrashers 250 
Thrasyaetus 553 
harpyia 553 
Three-toed 
birds of n. am. 126 
woodpecker 485 
black-backed 485 
ladder-backed 485 
pole-backed 485 
woodpeckers 484 
Throat 96 
Thrush 
brown 251 
gray-cheeked 247 
golden crowned 308 
hermit, audubon's 247 
eastern 247 
western 247 
new york water 309 
olive-backed 248 
Oregon olive-backed 247 
red-winged 245 
russet-backed 247 
townsend's flycatching 329 
