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CHAPTER VII. 



Furtlier remarks on the process of incubation on tlie egg of the 

 Wedge-tailed Eagle by a domestic Hen — Attempt by the 

 parents to destroy the eggs — Parental care of their young by 

 gregarious quadrupeds — The Keindeer — Fondness for its young 

 —Maternal affection of animals of a high grade — Touchingly 

 instanced in the case of a She-Bear — Boldness of Birds under 

 such circumstances — Example given by White — Parental 

 soHcitude of the Partridge — Of the domestic Hen — Of the 

 Mare— The practice of hatching Ducks' eggs by a Hen — 

 Black Swans and their brood — The Canada Geese — Their 

 propensity to destroy the nestlings of other Birds — Instanced 

 by a pair in St. James's Park — The Goldfinch's nest — Per- 

 severance and manceuvring of a Sparrow while nest-building 

 — Anxiety for concealment manifested by Birds generally in 

 the process of nidification — The Ostrich — The mode adopted 

 by this bird of hatching its eggs — Number of eggs produced 

 — Its nest — A Hen's eggs hatched by a Partridge — The Brush- 

 Turkey — Its mode of egg-hatching — Genera of the family — 

 A puzzle to systematists — The bird described — Construction 

 of its nest — Of nests generally — Hunter's experiments on the 

 eggs of a domestic Hen in relation to the eggs of the Brush- 

 Turkey — Gould's remarks and experience on the same subject 

 — Western Australian Pheasant described — Their ' nest- 

 mounds' — The Jungle Fowl described — The Bower-Birds of 

 Australia — Specimens in the Zoological Gardens — Arrival 

 there of the Hippopotamus, the Thylacines, and the Snake- 

 charmers p. 126 



CHAPTEPv VIII. 



The Chlamydera, or Spotted Bower-Bird — Its range — Opinion 

 of Mr. Gould thereon — Remarkable plumage — The great 

 Bower-Bird — Specimen in the Zoological Gardens — Habits, 

 &c. of the Bird — The Marsupiates, or Purse-Bearers — The 



