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The Gos-Hawk— Sparrow-Hawk — Kite — Harriers 323 



Owls.— Their Flight — Difference in Size 324 



Habits of the White Owl— The Eagle Owl 325 



OnDEK n. — Insessores — Perchtnq Bird8 326 



Meaning of the Term — Mechanism by which Birds are 



enabled to Perch 326 



Division of the Order into Four Tribes 327 



Tribe I. — Dentieostres — Tooth-eilled Birds 328 



Butcher Birds— Water Ouzel— Missel Thrush 328 



Robin Red-breast — Habits — Nests in Strange Situations... 330 

 Nightingale — Distribution — Song — Humming- Birds 331 



Tribe II. — Co^^ROSTRES — Conical-billed Birds 333 



The Sky-Lark — Bimtings — Sparrows — Linnets — Cross-bill 333 



The Starling — Its Migratory Habits — Large Flocks 335 



Birds of Paradise — Fables respecting them 336 



The Raven — Hooded Crows — Rooks — Nest-building 337 



Are Rooks Useful or Injurious to the Farmer? 339 



Magpie — Jackdaw — Jay — Horn-Bills 340 



Tkiue hi — Scaxsoees — CLtMBDfG Birds 341 



Parrots — Woodpecker — Structure of the Tongue 341 



The Cuckoo — Its Habits — Its Cheerful Note 342 



Tribe IV. — Fissirostkes — Gapixg-billed Birds 344 



The King-fisher — Fables respecting it 344 



The Goatsucker— The Swallow 345 



House JIartins — Their Punishment of an Intruder — Sand- 



Martin— Swift 346 



URr)i:R III. — Rasores — Scr^vping-Birds 347 



Meaning of the Term — Native Species arranged in Four 



Families 347 



T Doves Wood-Pigeon — Its Large Flocks — Food 347 



Carrier- Pigeon — Rapidity of its Flight-^Passcnger- Pigeon 



— Its immense Flocks 348 



II Pheas^vnts. — Common Pheasant 349 



III The Grouse. — Red Grouse — Black Grouse 349 



Ptarmigan — Its Change of Colour — Partridge — Quails — 



Their Numbers — The Capercaillie 350 



rv.— Bustards 351 



