CONTENTS 
CHAPTER 
V. CouRTSHIP FLIGHTS eae ons ve 
The wing-play of blackgame and grouse—The “ musical 
ride’”’ of the snipe—The ‘‘roding” of the woodcock— 
The musical flights of redshank and curlew—The ‘ tumb- 
ling’ of the lapwing—The raven’s somersaults—The 
courting flight of the wood-pigeon—The manakin’s 
“ castanets ’’—Wings as lures—The strange pose of the 
sun-bittern—The ‘“‘wooing’’ of the chaffinch and the 
grasshopper-warbler— Darwin and wing-displays— The 
wondertul wings of the argus pheasant. 
VI. How To TELL BIRDS ON THE WING siti 
The small perching-birds and the difficulty of distinguish- 
ing them—The wagtails—The finches—The buntings— 
The redstart, wheatear, and stonechat—The thrushes—The 
warblers—The tit-mice—The nuthatch and _ tree-creeper 
—The spotted flycatcher—The red-backed shrike— 
Swallows, martins, and swifts—The nightjar—Owls— 
Woodpeckers. 
VII. How To TELL BIRDS ON THE WING (continued) ... 
Falcons—Golden eagle—Harriers and sparrow-hawk—The 
heron—The cormorant, shag, and gannet—The petrels— 
Guillemots, razor-bills, and puffns—-The ducks—The 
great-crested grebe and dabchick—The pigeons—The 
“ plover tribe ’’—The gulls and terns—The game-birds. 
VIII. THE Wincs oF NESTLING BirDs_... és 
The wing of the unhatched bird—Of the coots and water- 
hen—The hoatzin’s wings—The wing of Archzopteryx 
—Moulting—The nestling game-birds and ducks—Teaching 
the young to fly. 
IX. FLIGHTLESS BIRDS eed Ane 588 
The steamer duck—The owl parrot—The flightless grebe 
of Titicaca—The dodo and solitaire—The ostrich tribe— 
The penguin’s wings. 
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