INDEX. 
274 
Leg-bones; i. 45. 
Legs of Herons allure fish; ii. 132. 
Levirostral — light-billed; ii. 83. 
Light on American Bittern’s breast; ii. 133. 
Linnets’ affection for their young ; ii, 24. 
Magpies; i. 250. 
— nurse young Ravens ; i. 264. 
Manikins; ii. 28. 
Mate, birds choose new ones when the old ones die; ii. 54, 220, 
Meetings of Crows and other birds ; i. 234. 
Mice killed by a Hen ; ii. 95. 
Migration of Cuckoos; ii. 75, 77* 
- — Storks and Cranes; ii. 134, 
— Swallows; ii. 45. 
— — queries respecting; i. 101, 104. 
Mocking-Bird; i. 69. 
Muscular power of the wing of a bird; i. 85. 
Music attracts Nightingales; ii. 38. 
Narrow-beaked, Pressirostral; ii. 119. 
Nest, Blackbird’s, by a rabbit’s seat; i. 206. 
Eagles; i. 125. 
curious one of African Finches; ii. 12. 
eatable ; ii. 55. 
— — rapidity of building; ii. 12. 
— — of Titmouse, singular place for one ; ii. 29, 
— — Sparrows and Redbreast; ii. 19, 32. 
— - — curious, of a Thrush; i. 203. 
— Swallow, in a bell; ii. 51. 
— — - — — not always of mud; ii. 55. 
Pigeons; ii. 91. 
— Ostrich; ii. 113. 
Water-Hen; ii. 123, 125. 
Nightingales, migration of; ii. 36. 
Night, birds sing during; ii. 38. 
Nuthatch, Sitta Europea; ii. 67. 
Oil on feathers, use of ; i. 80. 
Oriole, Golden; ii. 1. 
