Chapter C

Canary, 249, 250, 251
_Casarca rutila_, 149
Casque, 5
Cement of bird masons, 171-7
_Centropus intermedius_, 14
_— maximus_, 14
_— phasianus_, 11
_— rufipennis_, 14, 111
_— sinensis_, 10
_Cercomela fusca_, 16
_— melanura_, 18
Chaffinch, 247
Chat, brown rock-, 16-20
_Chelidon urbica_, 173
Chilian wigeon, 109
Chinkara, 42
_Chloropsis_, 117, 118, 120
_— Jerdoni_, 118
—, Jerdon’s, 118
—, Malabar, 118
_— malabarica_, 118
_Cholum_ bird, 192
Clare, 24
Climate, adaptability of birds to, 241
Clubs, bird, 223
Cobra, 89-93
Cobweb, 174-7
_Coccystis jacobinus_, 231
Colouration, protective, 121, 142
—, warning, 79, 204
Coot, 78-83
—, purple, 84-8
Coppersmith, 74, 212, 213
_Copsychus saularis_, 253
_Coracias indica_, 75, 171
Corby, 211, 212, 242
Cormorant, 40, 121, 125
Corporate action, 195
_Corvus macrorhynchus_, 211, 230, 242
_— splendens_, 4, 118, 211, 228, 242
_Cotile riparia_, 237
_— sinensis_, 237, 241, 254
Cotton tree, birds in the, 208-13
Coucal, 10, 11, 12, 13, 91
—, Southern Chinese, 13
Cow-bird, 9
Cowper, 23, 106
Crab, 113
Crane, 144, 167
_Crateropus canorus_, 215, 221, 253
Crocodile, 94
_Crotalaria juncea_, 141
Crow, 14, 24, 25, 26, 41, 42, 64, 65, 107, 112, 136, 165, 168, 169,
171, 189, 211, 212, 228, 230, 242, 255
Crow-pheasant, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 91, 111
Cuckoo, 9-15, 161, 171
—, lark-heeled, 10
—, pied crested, 231, 232
— -shrike, 190
—, sirkeer, 14
_Culicapa ceylonensis_, 179
Cunningham, Colonel, 10, 26, 92, 197, 200, 222
_Cygnus olor_, 99-103
_Cyornis superciliaris_, 181
_Cyornis tickelli_, 181