INDEX 



Pages 



Introductory Preface - -5-6 



I. Retrospective Lore and Legend - 7- 10 



IL Customs." Flights and Nesting 



Grounds - - - -11-10 



III. Development, Food and Decline 



— Shooting and Netting the 



Birds ----- IT- 22 



IV. In Pennsvlvania and Elsewhere 23- '28 



V. Observations in the Susquehanna 

 Valley, Told by a Pioneer Octo- 

 Sfenarian - _ _ - 



2!)- 33 



VI. Some Kentucky Observations, by 



Alexander Wilson - - 34- 38 



VII. Comments of an Eminent Ob- 

 server, John J. Audubon, in 

 Kentucky - - - - 39- U 



VIII. The Romance of Numbers and 

 Testimony of Living Men as to 

 the Reality of Figures Consid- 

 ered Marvelous _ _ _ 45- 49 



IX. The Rate of Reproduction and 



• Decline _ - - - 50- 54 



