EGGS--Five to eight. ---- Page 218. DOWNY WOODPECKER.--_Dryobates pubescens._ Other name: "Little or Lesser Sapsucker." This, however, is a misnomer. RANGE--Northern and eastern North America, and sporadically the western portions--Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, etc. NEST--In an excavation in a tree. EGGS--Four or five, rarely six, pure glossy white. ---- Page 223. OLD SQUAW DUCK.--_Clangula hyemalis._ Other names: South Southerly; Long-tailed Duck; Swallow-tailed Duck; Old Injun (Mass. and Conn.) Old Molly; Old Billy; Scolder (New Hampshire and Massachusetts.) RANGE--Northern hemisphere; south in winter to nearly the southern border of the United States. NEST--On the margins of lakes and ponds, among low bushes or low grass, warmly lined with down and feathers. EGGS--From six to twelve, of pale, dull grayish pea-green. ---- Page 227. WHITE-FACED GLOSSY IBIS.--_Plegadis autumnalis._ RANGE--Tropical and sub-tropical regions generally; rare and of local distribution in the southeastern United States and West Indies. NEST--Of rushes, plant stems, etc., in reedy swamps on low bushes. EGGS--Three, rather deep, dull blue. ---- Page 231. ARKANSAS KINGBIRD.--_Tyrannus verticalis._ Other name: Arkansas Flycatcher. RANGE--Western United States from the plains to the Pacific, and from British Columbia south through Lower California and western Mexico to Guatemala. NEST--On branches of trees, in open and exposed situations, six to twenty feet from the ground; built of stems of weeds and grasses. EGGS--Three to six, white, thinly spotted with purple to dark redish-brown. ---- VOLUME III. JANUARY TO JUNE, 1898. INDEX. Apple Blossom Time, 153 Audubon Society, One, 234 Aviaries, 121-2 Birds, Foreign Song Birds in Oregon, 123 Birds, in the Schools, 20 Birds, Hints on the Study of Winter, 109 Birds, Interesting Facts About, 100 Birds' Answer, The, 83 Bird Study, The Fascinations of, 164 Birds, Let Us All Protect the Eggs of the, 154 Birds, Pairing in Spring, 189 Bird, Only a, 73 Bird Superstitions and Winged Portents, 172 Bird Day, 82 Birds, a Friend of, 43 Bird, The Mound, 114 Bird Lovers, Some, 81 Bittern, Least, _Botaurus exilis_, 46-47 Bob White, _Colinus virginianus_, 16-18-19-34 Buddha, The Youth of, 237 Christmas, Where Missouri Birds Spend, 84 Cockatoo, Rose, _Cacatua leadbeateri_, 29-30-31 Coot, American, _Fulica americana_, 96-98-99 Contentment, 163 Crane, Queer doings of a, 44 Creeper, Brown, _Certhia familiaris americana_, 212-214-215 Dickcissel, _Spiza americana_, 146-147-149 Duck, Bald Pate, _Anas americana_, 48-50-51 Duck, Black, _Anas obscura_, 86-87 Duck, Pintail, _Dafila acuta_, 176-8-9 Duck, Old Squaw, _Clangula hyemalis_, 223-5 Duck Farms, Eider, 113 Egg, What is An, 60 Eggs, 155-195-235 Feathers or Flowers?, 180 Finch, Purple, _Carpodacus purpureus_, 54-55 Flycatcher, Arkansas, _Tyrannus verticalis_, 230-231