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pleted Curious Nests in Africa. Age of small Birds. 

 Canary Birds Trade in. Bullfinches, Piping 

 How trained Boldness of Affectionate and social 

 Habits of Also of Linnets. Use of small Birds in de- 

 stroying Insects 211 



CHAPTER XI. Subulirostres ; Awl-shaped Bills. Manakins ; 

 curious Nests of. Tomtits. Wagtails. Redstarts. 

 Robins, &c. Migration of this Tribe. Nightingales. 

 Whether they return to same nests. Ear for Music. 

 Night-Singing Birds. Planirostres ; Flat- billed. 

 Swallow Tribe. Whether occasionally Dormant ; in- 

 stances of Migration of. Insects, number devoured 

 by Swallows. Spiders, high Flights of. Curious Nests 

 of Swallows Courage of 232 



CHAPTER XII. Swallows' Nests, continued. Edible Nests, 

 East Indies. Goat- Suckers Mode of seizing Moths 

 Cavern, with their Nests, described. Tenuirostres ; 

 Narrow- billed. Nuthatch. Tree-Creeper. Bee- 

 Eater. Hoopoe. Kingfisher. Humming Birds. 

 Climbing Birds. Cuneirostres ; Wedge-billed. Jaca- 

 mar. Anis. Cuckoo Anecdotes and Habits of . . 253 



CHAPTER XIII. Cuneirostral, continued. Woodpecker 

 Tame one. Wryneck Tongue of. Levirostral; Light- 

 billed. Parrots. Toucan. Gallinaceous ; Poultry 

 tribe. Pigeons, American Prodigious numbers of 

 Rapid flight Employed as Messengers Mode of 

 catching Attachments of. Cocks. Pheasants 

 Courage of. On breeding Pheasants Box for Feeding 

 Prized by Ancients. Turkeys, Wild Social Habits 

 of. Partridges, tamed Nests of Various sorts of. 

 Quails Immense Flight of. Bustards. Ostrich 

 Nests of Affection Hunting Strength of. Casso- 

 wary and Emu 273 



CHAPTER XIV. Water Birds. Waders. Pressirostral ; 

 Narrow-beaked. Water-Hens Anecdotes of Nests 

 of. Coots Nests of. Jacanas Singular Foot of. 



