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CHAPTER VII. 
THE CUCKOOS, ETC. 
Ground-cuckoo of Southwest Territories: Curious appear- 
ance and habits—Yellow-billed Cuckoo—Black-billed 
Cuckoo: Invaluable as insect-eaters: Without any objec- 
tionable habits: Poor nest-builders, but excellent parents: 
Curious voices, hence the common name—Trogons— 
Motmots—Kingfisher: Common inland water-bird: Nests 
in the ground—Carolina Paroquet: Once abundant, now 
almostiextinctamycmentette: saul sian eee as el G4—150 
CHAPTER VIII. 
BIRDS OF PREY. 
Their general characteristics and habits—King Vulture— 
Turkey-buzzard—Black Vulture—Swallow-tailed Hawk: 
Mississippi Kite—Marsh-hawk—Sharp-shinned and other 
small hawks—Goshawk—Red-tailed Hawk: Value as 
mousers more than compensates for poultry destroyed— 
Broad-winged Hawk—Red-shouldered or Winter Falcon 
-~‘ Feather-boots” or Black-Hawk—Golden Eagle—Bald 
Eagle—Gyrfalcons—Peregrine Falcon or Duck-hawk— 
Sparrow-hawk—Osprey or Fish-hawk—Owls: Their pe- 
culiarities: Crepuscular and nocturnal habits: Also a di- 
urnal bird—Barn-owl: Shrill voice of, when alarmed: 
Valuable as a mouser—Long-eared or Cat-owl: Interest- 
ing account of a colony of these birds—Marsh-owl— 
Acadian Owl—Little Red or Screech-owl—Snowy Owl 
—Hawk-owl—Burrowing-owl—Pygmy-owl . . . . . . 160-186 
CHAPTER IX. 
GAME-BIRDS AND PIGEONS. 
Quail or Bob-white—California Quail—Dusky Grouse— 
Canada Grouse—Ruffed Grouse or Pheasant of Middle 
States—Ptarmigan or White Grouse—Prairie-chicken or 
Pinnated Grouse—Sharp-tailed Grouse—Wild Turkey — 
Wild Pigeon—Turtle-dove: Curious nesting habit of 
dove in Arizona—Ground-dove ......... . . 187-197 
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