CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 

 The Beaver and the Macauco . p. 1 



CHAPTER II. 



Menageries opposed to romance — Tlie Condor— Unprotected 

 state of its eggs — Elevation chosen for their resting-place — 

 Colour &c. of the nestling — The Condor's feast — Indian mode 

 of capturing the bird — Exciting nature of the sport— Hum- 

 boldt's account of the Condor's tenacity of life — The Lam- 

 mergeyer — Its pertinacity and audacity — Dimensions of the 

 bird — The Condor's offspring in captivity — Eggs placed under 

 a domestic Hen — Slowness of the hatching process — Descrip- 

 tion of the young bird — Its food — Attachment of the Hen to 

 its nursUng — Death of the young Condor — Modification of 

 instinct — Relative proportions of new-born quadrupeds, birds 

 just hatched, and fishes — Feathers of the Condor used as 

 quills — The King Vulture — Its brilliant colours — Account of 

 a Buzzard hatching chickens ......... p. 8 



CHAPTER III. 



Transmigration of Soids — The Stork : qualities attributed to 

 the bird by the ancients — Its migration — The White Stork — 

 Metamorphosis of Antigone — Gratitude of Storks prover- 

 bial — Heracleis of Tarentum rewarded by a Stork — Supposed 



