XIV CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XII. 



GULLS IN CAPTIVITY, AND GULLERIES. 



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Desirable pets. Longevity. Discipline of new-caught birds. 

 Reconciliations and confidences. Good-natured, not stupid. 

 Hardy and accommodating, but not ascetic. Requisites for a 

 Gullery. Voracity of Gulls. Black-headed Gull. Its mode of 

 nesting. Its eggs. Domesticability of Gulls. Their capture. 

 Application of the method to Geese. The birds kept in Dr. 

 Neill's Gullery. Docility of Cormorants. Chinese Fishing 

 Cormorants. Albatrosses. Their capture. Nesting-places. 

 Battues. Dangers of a calm. Principle of flight . . . 402 



CHAPTER XIII. 



THE SANDWICH ISLAND GOOSE. 



Stay-at-home travellers. Home of the Sandwich Bernicle. 

 Natural disposition. Its claims on our patronage. Natural 

 perfume. Voice. First historial notice. Erroneous nomen- 

 clature. Obstinate pugnacity. A parallel. Diet. Weight. 

 Plumage. Increase 426 



CHAPTER XIV. 



CONCLUDING DIALOGUE. THE NIGHTINGALE. 



A country walk. Local curiosities. An agreeable surprise. 

 Limits of the Nightingale's migrations. Topographical caprice. 

 The ravisher of Nightingales. Particulars of capture. Subse- 

 quent management. Touching song and wakefulness of the bird. 

 Antique notions. Effects of a Nightingale diet. Enter Bird- 

 catcher. Rural simplicity. Diamond cut diamond. The bird is 

 caught. Amount of its accomplishments. Modes of causing 

 their exhibition. Conclusion . . .436 



