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Swoop of Vultures to their Prey as a Signal to Other Birds. The Vulture 

 in Egyptian Mythology. Vultures at Bombay. "The Towers of Silence. " 

 Parsee Funerals. A Nesting Place of Vultures. The Daring of 

 Hawks and other Birds of Prey. Boldness of Kites in India. Scavenger 

 Birds as Sanitary Agents. The Kite in London in the Stuart Times. 

 The Functions of Hawks in Nature. The Uses of Hawks as Game 

 Preservers. Epidemics among Birds. Bird Plagues. Failure of " Fowl- 

 rearing " Farms. Epidemics among Ground Game. Dog Distemper. 

 Sudden Decrease in the Numbers of Certain Birds. The Extinction 

 of Races of Terrestrial Beings. Why have all these Races passed 

 away ? Winged Game increasing with Improved Agriculture. Wilder- 

 ness Birds. Woodcock and Quail in the Early Settlement of America. 

 Wild Birds as the Friends of the Farmer. Plea for their Preservation. 

 Vegetable Blights and Plagues. The Potato Disease. The Vine Disease. 

 The Silver Fir Aphis. The Study of Bird Life. Bird Habitants of 

 the Arctic Regions. The Polar Ptarmigan. The Albatross. Pelagic 

 Sea Fowl. Sea Birds in the Antarctic Regions. The Nesting Grounds 

 of the Albatross. Stormy Weather in the Southern Seas. The Albatross 

 in Storms at Sea. The Flight of the Albatross. How Albatrosses 

 soar. Albatross flying directly toward the Observer becomes Invisible. 

 The Wild Freedom of the Sea Birds. The Solan Goose. The Hen- 

 Harrier as a Fishing Bird. Gannets Fishing. Breeding Grounds of 

 the Gannet. Gannets as Divers. Waders. Pelicans. Pelicans on the 

 Suez Canal. Flamingoes. Flamingoes and Saline Waters. Insects in 

 Concentrated Brine Solutions. The Migrations of Wildfowl. British 

 Small Birds during Severe Winters. The Winter of 1878. Disappear- 

 ance of Small Birds from the British Islands. The Migratory Spirit 

 a Part of Bird Nature. Mortality of Bird Migrants. Sufferings of 

 Birds in the Great Frost of Feb. 1895. Distressed Migrants at Sea. 

 The Author's Observations of Birds at Sea. How Birds Drink in Dry 

 Countries. Birds and Dewdrops. How Aquatic Birds Feed while Young. 

 Sealing up of the Northern Seas by Frost. Migrations from the Polar 

 Regions on the Approach of Winter. Is the Whole Polar Wilderness- 

 Inhabited by Birds ? Fly Lines of Bird Migrants. Flights along the 

 Courses of Great Rivers. Autumn Flights of Wildfowl along the 

 Mississippi Valley. Flight Shooting at Dawn during the American 

 Migrations. Great Flights of Migratory Storks and Pelicans on the 

 Nile. "Watching the Sky." Why Travellers should be Star-Gazers. 

 The Approach of Storms. Migratory Flights Great at Altitudes. 

 Unseon by Man from Want of Observation. The American Passenger 

 Pigeon. The British Wood Pigeon. Wood Pigeons' Nests. Shooting 

 Wood Pigeons. African Pigeons. Vast Pigeon Flights in North 

 America. A great "Pigeon Roost." Practical Extinction of the 

 American Passenger Pigeon. American Wild Turkeys. The Wild 

 Turkey as a Wilderness Bird. Wild Turkey Shooting. Wild Turkey 

 Roosts. The Flight of Wild Turkeys. Grouse. Tree Grouse. Snow 

 Grouse* Belts of Grouse according to Elevation on Mountains. Moor- 

 land Grouse. British Grouse. Capercailzie. Prairie Chickens. Wil- 

 derness Birds that shun the Society of Man. The Bittern. Herons. 



