446 
INDEX. 
Swallow’s nest in a bell, and in a lamp, 
250 
— courage, 251 
suit their nests to circum- 
stances, 253 
— — nests eatable, 253 
— scarcity of them in late 
years, 257 
Swan, strength of, 365 
black, 366 
Swiftness of Ostriches, 301 
— flight, how calculated, 73 
Swimming Hen, 285 
Tables of Classification, 9 
■ utility of them, 24 
Tame Hawks, 142 
Partridge, 293 
Raven in wild state, 188 
• Woodpecker, 273 
Tanagers, 173 
Tantalus, 328 
Tenuirostral tribes, of Passerine or- 
der, 262 
Tenuirostres, or slender-billed, of or- 
der Waders, 333 
Tern, habits of the, 397 
Thrush tribe, 166 
feeds a Blackbird, 170 : feeds 
a Cuckoo, 171 
• feeding on shell-fish, 169 
Titmouse found at sea, 77 
— - nest of the, 232 
Todus viridis, 262 
Tongue of the Wryneck, 275 
Toucan -bill, 31 
mode of killing small birds, 
32 
singular position while asleep, 
37 
Tracheas, or windpipes, of Duck 
tribes, 56 
Trap for Eagles, 110 
Goshawks, 133 
— — Sparrow-Hawks, 136 
Tree-Creeper, 264 
Tropic Bird lives almost always on 
wing, 79 
Turkey, wild, anecdote of the, 290 
and Partridge associate, 291 
Cock rearing young ones, 292 
Turks’ veneration for Storks, 319 
Turtles, migration of, 86 
Voice of birds, 56, 61 
Voracity of some birds, 43, 317, 326 
Vulture floating on a corpse, 103 
* — — — particulars of, 113 
mode of catching in South 
America, 117 
— ■ — voracity of, 117 
W agtail’s nest in a brass-foundry, 233 
• a boat, 234 
Warblers, 232 
Warmth of Birds, 46, 54 
Water-Crow walking under water, 72 
■ — Hen, account of, 305 
Washington, Bird of, 107 
Wedge-billed birds, or Cuneirostral, 
269 
Weight, comparative, of Birds, 71 
Windows, how to prevent Swallows 
building near, 257 
Wing-bones described, 38 
Winter, hard, favourable to insects, 
200 
Wire-worms, destroyed by Rooks, 198 
Woodcocks breed in Scotland, 340 
migration of, 342 
rapid flight proved, 343 
method of catching them, 
345 
— supposed to remove their 
young, 340 
Wood-Pigeon, 281 
Woodpecker, 269 
tame, 273 
Wrens, 232 
Wryneck, tongue of the, 275 
Young birds carried off by the old 
ones, 334, 340, 341, 421 
THE END. 
