XVlll CONTENTS. 



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Found in Labrador 190 



Nest of the Meadow Lark 191 



The Mungo Humming Bird 191 



Humming Birds peculiar to the American Continents. . 192 



The Raven 192 



Various species of the Crow 193 



The Whiteheaded Eagle 194 



Mode of taking its Prey 194 



Astonishing Rapacity and Daring 195 



Great Powers of Abstinence 195 



An unfit National Emblem 196 



Franklin's Opinion of it 196 



Audubon's first sight of the Caracara Eagle 197 



The Golden Eagle 197 



A Magnificent Specimen 197 



Its Tenacity of Life 198 



Seen as far North as Labrador 199 



Keenness of Vision 199 



Long-continued Gyrations 200 



Nests inaccessible 200 



Anecdote in Illustration 200 



CHAPTER XV. 



Audubon's Great Work Completed in 1839 201 



His Unremitting Zeal for Sixteen Tears 202 



Sustained by Visions of Final Success 202 



Labors terminated in his Sixty-Third Year 203 



Audubon's Death 204 



CHAPTER XVI. 



Note by the American Publishers 205 



The " Quadrupeds of North America'* 205 



Octavo Edition of the " Birds of America" 206 



Rev. Dr. Bachman, of Charleston 206 



