CONTENTS XV 



CHAPTER XXXII. 



TROPICAL BIED LIFE IN BOTH HEMISPHERES. 



'Pile Toucan — Its Quarrelsome Character — The Humming-birds — Their wide 

 Kauge over the Now World — Their Habits — Their Enemies — Their Courage 

 — The Cotingas — The Campanero — The Tangaras — The Manakins — The 

 Cock of the Kock— The Troupials — The Baltimore— The Pendulous Nests of 

 the Cassiques — The Mocking-bird — Strange Voices of Tropical Bu'ds — The 

 Goat-sucker's "Wail — The Organista — The Cilgero — The Flamingos — The 

 .Scarlet Ibis — The Jabiru — The Roseate Spoon-bill — The Jacana — The Calao 

 — The Sun-birds — The Melithreptes — The Argus — The Peacock — The Lyre 

 Bird — The Birds of Paradise — The Australian Bower-bird — The Talegalla — 

 The Devil-bird — The Baya^-The Tailor-bird — The Republican Gros-beak — 

 The Korwe ........ Page 358 



CHAPTER XXXIII. 



TEOPICAL BLRDS OF PREY. 



Tlie Condor — His Marvellous Flight — His Cowardice — Various Modes of Cap- 

 turing Con lors — Ancient Fables circulated about thom — Comparison of the 

 Condor with the Albatross — The Carrion Vultures — The King of the Vultures 

 — Domestication of the Urubu — Its Extraordinary Memory — The Harpy 

 Eagle — Examples of his Ferocity — Tlio Oricou — The Bacha — His Cruelty to 

 the Klipdachs — The Fisliing Eagle of Africa — The Musical Sparrow-hawk — 

 The Secretary Eagle . . . . . . .387 



CHAPTER XXXIV. 



THE OSTRICH AND THE CASSOWARY. 



Size of the Ostrich — His astonishing Swiftness — Ostrich Hunting — Stratagem of 

 the Ostrich for protecting its Young — The poisoned Arrow of the Bushmen — 

 Enemies of the Ostrich — The White Vulture — Points of Resemblance with 

 the Camel — Voice of the Ostrich said to resemble that of the Lion — Its Vora- 

 city — Ostrich Feathers — Bechuana Parasols — Domestication of the Ostrich in 

 Algeria — The American Rheas — The Cassowary — The Australian Emu 397 



CHAPTER XXXV. 



PARROTS. 



Their Peculiar Manner of Climbing — Points of Resemblance with Monkeys — 

 Their Social Habits — Their Connubial Felicity — Inseparables — Talent for 

 Mimicry — Wonderful Powers of Speech and Memory — Their Wide Range within 

 the Temperate Zones — Coloiu' of Parrots Artificially Changed by the South 

 American Indians — The Cockatoos — Cockatoo killingin Australia — The Macaw — 

 The Parrakoots ...... 408 



