INDEX. 
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Canaries, history of, and trade in; ii. 15. 
Cancroma, or Boat-bill; ii. 144. 
Caprimulgus, Goat-Sucker; ii. 62. 
Carrier-Pigeon, its rapid flight, and how used; i. 91 ; ii. 88. 
Cassowary; ii. 116. 
Catching Wood- Pigeons, mode of; ii. 89. 
Cat and Pigeon, anecdote of ; ii. 92. 
Caverns filled with Swallows’ eatable nests; ii. 56. 
Certhia, or Tree-Creeper; ii. 68. 
Chavana Fidelis, capacity for filling itself with air ; i. 65. 
Children, instances of, carried off* by Eagles; i. 116. 
Chough, or red-legged Crow ; i. 247. 
Cinereous Crow, depredations of the ; i. 249. 
Classification, Tables of; i. 8. 
Claw of the Goat-Sucker, why toothed; ii. 64. 
serrated, of the Heron; ii. 131. 
Cock, barn-door, courage of; ii. 92. 
Condor, contest with a man; i. 138. 
Constancy of Magpies and other birds ; ii. 139. 
Consumption of food by small birds; ii. 26. 
Coots, nest of ; ii. 124. 
Cormorant, habits of; ii. 215. 
* weight of; ii. 215. 
where differing from a Frigate-Bird; ii. 218. 
Corn-Crake; ii. 129. 
found dormant; ii. 43. 
Cotinga; i. 210. 
Courage of Swallows; ii. 52. 
Cranes; ii. 131. 
— anecdote of a lame; ii. 148. 
Crocodile,, birds feed in mouth of; ii. 155. 
Cross-Bill, beak described ; i. 32. 
peculiarities of the ; i. 54. 
Crows; i. 231. 
— harassing the Gulls at the South Stack ; ii. 232. 
Cuckoos; ii. 74. 
Golden; i. 26. 
