Our Domestic Birds: Elementary Lessons in Aviculture

by John H. Robinson

• Waste food consumed by street pigeons, [256]
• Water, [81], [98], [141];
  • imperviousness of feathers to, [15];
  • warming, for fowls, [81];
  • propensity of young ducks for, [145];
  • constant supply of, for pigeons, illustrated, [261]
• Wattles, of fowl, [33];
  • of turkey, [179];
  • of guinea, [200];
  • of pheasant, [211]
• Web of feather, [9]
• Webster, Daniel, exhibitor at first poultry show in America, [53]
• West Indies, guinea in, [202]
• Wheat, [78], [98], [141]
• Whistling Swan, [222]
• White eggs, preference for, [289]
• White of egg, formation of, [17]
• Wild birds, place of, in civilization, [5]
• Wild geese, growing, in captivity, [178]
• Wings, movement of, in flight, [12]
• Women as poultry keepers, [39], [42], [122]
• Wood Duck, [134]
• Wyandotte, [59];
  • Silver-Laced, illustrated, [59];
  • White, [60];
    • illustrated, [60], [82];
  • Partridge, illustrated, [61];
  • Silver-Penciled, illustrated, [61];
  • Buff, origin of, [62];
  • Columbian, illustrated, [62]

• Yard of small poultry fancier, illustrated, [120]
• Yards, for fowls, [73];
  • for ducks, [138];
  • for geese, [169];
  • for turkeys, [190];
  • for pheasants, [219]
• Yellow-legged fowls, American preference for, [55]
• Yolk of egg, [17]
• Yorkshire Canary, illustrated, [270]

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Transcriber's Notes.

Illustrations were always positioned between paragraphs. As a result, they occasionally moved to the preceding or following page.

Changed "silver penciled" to "silver-penciled" on page 28: "partridge, silver-penciled, and ermine."

Changed "out-crosses" to "outcrosses" on page 30: "outcrosses are regularly made."

Changed "Siver-Penciled" to "Silver-Penciled" in the caption to figure 51.

Changed "Amercia" to "America" on page 63: "fowls of America."

Changed "thay" to "they" on page 169: "which they may use."