XVI CONTENTS. 



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A Suppliant 145 



Poverty and Contentment 147 



Hard Fare 147 



A Citizen of the World 148 



Eggers of Labrador. 149 



Cruel Habits of the Eggers 149 



Probable Extinction of Birds 151 



Coast of Newfoundland 152 



A Serenade and Ball 153 



Modesty of the Belles 155 



Visit to Pictou 155 



Audubon returns to New York. 156 



Revisits London and Edinburgh 157 



CHAPTER XII, 



Audubon's untiring ZeaL 158 



Occasional Dejection 159 



The Highlands of Scotland 160 



Volume of " Water Birds". 161 



Solitary Retreats of Water Birds 161 



The Cormorant 161 



Double-crested Cormorant of Labrador 162 



The Florida Cormorant 162 



Flight of the Cormorant 163 



The Great Blue Heron. 163 



Its Solitary Habits 164 



Enormous Appetite 164 



Nest of the Cormorant 165 



The " Lady of the Waters" 165 



Herons 166 



The Brown Pelican 166 



Its great Powers of Flight 166 



The Frigate Pelican 167 



Its resemblance to the Vulture 167 



