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Redbird, ~2~, 88.

Redstart, American, ~1~, 14; portrait, ~1~, 14.

Regurgitation, ~1~, 18, 19.

Rhea, ~1~, 24.

Robin, American, arrival, ~1~, 3, 10, 15, 17, 18, 21; plumage of young, 23, 34; teaching young to bathe, 38, 39; notes of, 44, 45; food of, 49, 126, 127; roosting in flocks, 60; devotion to young, 78; story of the intelligence of a, 84, 102; usefulness to men, 126, 127, 129; ~2~, 5, 6, 38, 65, 167; portrait, ~2~, 60.

Robin, Western, ~2~, 6.

Sapsucker, Yellow-bellied, ~1~, 85.

Sapsuckers, tail of, ~1~, 113; ~2~, 161.

Scavenger Family, ~2~, 194, 204.

Shrike, Loggerhead, ~2~, 59; portrait, ~2~, 60.

Shrike Family, ~2~, 59, 200.

Shrikes, ~1~, 126.

Skylark, Missouri, ~2~, 46.

Skylark, Prairie, ~2~, 46.

Sleeping, ~1~, 57-60.

Song, ~1~, 14, 44-47.

Sparrow, Chipping, ~1~, 54.

Sparrow, English, learning canary's song, ~1~, 46; young fed by a wren, 81, 82; harmfulness of, 126, 130, 132; ~2~, 32.

Sparrow, Song, arrival, ~1~, 3; nest, 9; individuality in songs, 45, 47; ~2~, 81.

Sparrow, Tree, ~1~, 58, 128.

Sparrow, White-throated, ~1~, 54.

Sparrow and Finch Family, ~2~, 80, 201.

Sparrows, ~1~, 84, 97; ~2~, 80.

Starlings, Meadow, ~2~, 100.

Stomach, ~1~, 93.

Strigidæ, ~2~, 185, 204.

Swallow, Bank, ~1~, 96.

Swallow, Barn, ~1~, 71, 96; ~2~, 69; portrait, frontispiece.

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