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Courtship Flights - : Ee 
The wing-play of black-game and grouse—The “ musical 
ride’ of the snipe—The ‘‘ roding’”’ of the woodcock— 
The musical flights of redshank and curlew—The “ tumb- 
ling’? of the lapwing—The raven’s somersaults—The 
courting flight of the wood pigeon—The mannikin’s 
“ castanets ’’—Wings as lures—The strange pose of the 
sun-bittern—The ‘‘ wooing’”’ of the chaffinch and the 
grasshopper-warbler—Darwin and wing-displays—The 
wonderful wings of the argus-pheasant. 
How to tell Birds on the Wing - 
The small perching-birds and the difficulty of distinguish- 
ing them—The wagtails—The finches—The buntings— 
The redstart-wheatear, Stonechat—The thrushes— The 
warblers—The tit-mice—The nuthatch, and tree-creeper 
—The spotted flycatcher—The red-backed shrike— 
Swallows, martins, and swifts—The night-jar—Owls— 
Woodpeckers. 
How to tell Birds on the Wing - 
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Falcons—Golden eagle—Harriers and sparrowhawk—The 
heron—The cormorant, shag, and gannet—The petrels— 
Guillemots, razorbills, and puffins—The ducks—The 
great crested grebe and dabchick—The pigeons—The 
“ plover tribe ’”»—The gulls and terns—The game birds. 
The Wings of Nestling Birds - - 
The wing of the unhatched bird—Of the coots and water- 
hen—The hoatzin’s wings—The wing of Archzopteryx 
—Moulting—The nestling game-birds and ducks— 
Teaching the young to fly. 
Flightless Birds : s a : 
The steamer duck—The ow! parrot—The flightless grebe 
of Titicaca—The dodo and solitaire—The ostrich tribe— 
The penguin’s wings. 
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