INDEX 
Affectionate disposition of the 
Ostrich, 300 
— — of a Duck, 371 
— of Geese, 358 
of Stork and 
Crane, 321 
of Chickens and 
Cat, 358 
Age of Goldfinches, 2 21 
Air Cells in Birds, use of, 35, 52 — 54 
Albatross lives almost always on the 
wing, 78 
wandering habits of the, 
414 
— nest of the, 415, 431 
American, South, Goat-Sucker, de- 
scribed, 259 
Anastomus or open-beak, 328 
Anhinga, or Darter, 395 
Anis, 269 
Annual return of birds to the South 
Stack, 90, 404 
Assemblages of Crows and other 
birds, 131, 192, 322 
Attachment of birds to men and 
animals, 353 
Avoset, beak of the, 333 
Barn-Owl, habits of the, 150, 155 
Bee-Eater, 264 
Bell Bird, 59 
Benefits derived from Rooks, 196 
■ — — and injuries by small birds, 
229. 
Bird-catchers employ Owls, 155 
Bird-catching in Shetland and St. 
Kilda, 433 
Birds, their situation in the natural 
division of the animal kingdom, 5 
Bittern, light in the breast of, 317 
Blackbird crowing like a Cock, 57 
— fed by a Thrush, 170 
Bones of birds, 34 
Box, feeding, for Pheasants, 287 
Breast-bone, 37 
— light in that of an 
American Bittern, 317 
Breathing, 52 
Breeding — Pheasant with poultry, 
285 
Bullfinches, how taught to pipe, 222 
Burrowing Owl described, 156 
Bustards taken by Hawks, 123 
courage of the, 2 84 
— pouch of the, 299 
Butcher-Bird, habits of the, 159 
Canada Geese, 356, 359 
Canaries, history of, and trade in, 221 
Cancroma, or Boat-bill, 329 
Caprimulgus, Goat-Sucker, 259 
Carrier-Pigeon, its rapid flight, and 
how used, 75, 279 
Cassowary, 302 
Cat and Pigeon, anecdote of, 382 
Chickens, anecdote of, 385 
Catching Wood- Pigeons, mode of, 
280, 281 
Caverns filled with Swallows’ eatable 
nests, 254 
Certhia, or Tree-Creeper, 264 
Chavana Fidele, capacity for filling 
itself with air, 54 
Children, instances of, carried off by 
Eagles, 96 
Chinese management of Ducks, 368 
— — Cormorants, 
388 
Chough, or Red-legged Crow, 204 
Cinereous Crow, depredations of the, 
206 
Classification, Tables of, 9 
Claw of the Goat-Sucker, why 
toothed, 260 
serrated, of the Heron, 315 
Cock, barn-door, courage of, 282 
Cold, capacity of birds for enduring 
severe, 47 
Colour of plumage, changes in, 68 
Condor, contest with a man, 118 
Constancy of Magpies and other 
birds, 324 
Consumption of food by small birds, 
230 
