TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER I. 



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Music of iN at urc— Common Thrush — Solitary Thrush— Winter 

 Woods — Missel Thrush — Blackbird — I'sofulness of Blackbird — 

 Rinf? Ou7,cl—Dip|>er— Pastor Ouzel — Fieldfare — Redwing— Birds 

 practising their Songs — (iolden Oriole 1 



CIIAITER II 



I^autv of Siiniig -\ iirious Appcaninces of Nature — Time of Nest- 

 building — Nest* of various Birds — Patience of the Mother-bird 

 during Incubation — Affection of Parent Birds for their Young — 

 Hedge Sparrow — Associations connected with Singing of Birds — 

 Alpine Accentor — Chiff-Chaff: Taraeness in Captivity — Yellow 

 Wn-n — Attiichmcnt of Birds to their Nests — Wood Warbler — 

 Dartford Warbler— Gold-Crest : great Beauty of its Nest — Fire- 

 jrrcsted Regulus — Common Wren — Old Traditions respecting 

 Wren — Cruel Superstition respecting Wren in Ireland — Devices 

 of Wren for concealing its Nest — Great value of Wren in destroy- 

 ing Insects and their Larv;i, — Singular Practice in European 

 Countries of terming the Wren " King" 56 



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