CONTENTS. IX 



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 Egg after twenty days . . . . . .162 



Exit of the chick . . . . . .162 



Bill scale 163 



Fracture of the shell 170 



Fertility of eggs 172 



Chick glued to the shell ITS 



CHAPTER X. 



Sheltering of the Young 175 



Difference of small birds from poultry . . .175 



Training of capons as nurses 177 



Curious instance of a cat 178 



Legend of Romulus and Remus .... 180 



Experiments on capons 181 



Artificial mothers . . . , . .184 

 Reaumur's stove hatching-house . . . .187 

 Artificial mother for water-fowls . . , , 188 



CHAPTER XI. 



Feeding of the Young 189 



John Hunter's remarks on Pigeons . , .190 



Mistakes of Vieillot and Temminck . . .193 



Legend of the Pelican . . . . . .194 



Origin thereof ....... 196 



Pelican confounded with the Spoonbill . . ,197 

 Eagles carrying off children Ganymede . . .199 



Owls 200 



Chaffinches and Tom-tits 202 



Calculations of Bradley 203 



Remarks of Knapp 204 



Rooks 205 



Swallows . 206 



Affection of parent birds . . . . . 208 



Humming-bird . * 210 



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