GENERAL INDEX. 
365 
Parts of a bird, 22. 
Parus cceruleus, anecdote of its 
building in a pump, 179. 
Parus caudatus, nest of, 181.1 
Parus pendulinus, 183. 
Penguins, habits of, 161. 
Pensile nests, 179. ^ , 
Perching order, general remarks 
on, 336. . . » 
Perching foot, variations of, 128. 
131. 
Perspicilla, eyes of, 30. 
Plantain.eater, violet, 66. 
Ploceus icterocephalus Siv.^ de- 
scribed, with its nest, 189. 
Pogonias, bristles of, 55. 
Polyborus, ground kites, 310. 
Ponclicerry nawk, 306. 
Prehensile feet, 232. 
Preserving birds, directions for, 
og^,. 
Prices of various costly works, 227. 
Primary types of birds, 8. 
Primary divisions of birds, 11. 
Progress of ornithology, 193. 
Pterodactylus, 4. 
Q. 
Quill feathers described, 81. 
R. 
Raptorial type, 9. , cnc. 
Raptorial order, characters of, 279. 
Rasoriid type, 10. , . . 
Representation, on the theory of, 
Rhyncops niger, habits of, 72. 
Rictal bristles of birds, 55. 
Shooting birds, directions for, 263. 
Sight of birds, 43. 
Smell of birds, 48. 
Song of birds, 163. 
Specimens, hints for preserving, 
268 . 
Spurs on rasorial birds, 155. 
State of ornithological science, 19o. 
Strength of voice in birds, 171. 
Strix flammca, the barn owl, 325. 
333. 
Strix Tengmalmi, its structure, 326. 
Strigida;, the owls, 321. 
Swallow, the song of, 167. ^ 
Surnta, the hawk owls, 3o0. , 
Swimming feet, 159. 
Sylvia sutona, nest of, 187. 
Synallaxis garrulus, nest of, 186. 
G.ri..lar*tilp 148. 
T. 
Tachipetes, their habits, 162. 
Tail, different forms of, 99., 
Tamatias, puffbirds, 32. 
Tarsus, or shank of birds, 11^. 
Tenuirostral type, 10. 
Tenuirortres, the tribe of, o40. 
Titmouse, blue, anecdote of, 180. 
Toes, various structure of, 119.. 
Tongues of birds, 49. 
Trlcophorus, bristles of, 74. ^ 
'I’roohilus recurvirostris, 71.^ . 
Types, uncertain situation of, 319. 
Voice of birds, 163. 
Vultur of New Holland, 288. 
Vulturida?, the vultures, 280. 
S. 
W. 
Scales, tarsal forms of, 114. 
Scansores, the tribe w. ^40. 
.Scansorial feet, 122. ^33. 
Scolopex and iVIus, 17. 
.Scotiaptex, the long-tailed owls, 
327. 
Shank, or tarsus, different forms of, 
113. 
Walking feet, 129. 
"Wing of birds, 25. 
■Wing feathers, 79. 
Wing, the joints of, 79. 
Writers, modern ornithological, 
199. 
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