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ANALYSIS OF SUBJECTS. 
Erazilian species of lanagers 91 
The Immming-biifls ; their beauty 92 
Movements of the humming-birds 93 
Tlie humming-bird hawk-moth 93 
Moke about the H ummino-Birds — 
A scene in Jamaica 94 
Combats of the humming-bird 95 
Chief characteristic 96 
His nest described 97 
His aerial evolutions ; Mr. Gosse's description 98 
The Flycatchers — 
Their species and habits 99 
About tlie tyrant flycatcher, or Iting-bird .... 100 
The Woods and Prairies of North Ame- 
rica — 
The habits and song of the whip-poor- 
will 101, 102 
Birds of the United States — 
The bluebird, one of man's feathered friends 103 
The ivory-billed woodpecker 104 
His e.Kceeding industry. 1U5 
Anecdote related by Wilson, the ornithologist 106 
Ingenuity in construction of his home 107 
Bryant, the poet, on the bob-o'-link 108 
In the American Woods — 
Migratory American birds Ill 
The purple martin and the butcher-bird Ill 
The cat bird and his call 112 
The warblers and the wrens 113 
Troglodytes — 
Origin of the wren's name 113 
Uis habits ; and his nest 114 
Bishop Mant on the wren ; his song 115 
Toussenel on the wren ; his bravery 116 
The Tanager and the Tit — 
The scarlet tanager 117 
Various species of the titmouse 118 
About the Eagle — 
Franklin's diatribe against the bald eagle.. .. 119 
His favourite haunts 120 
The eagle and the fish-hawk 120 
The eagle and his mate ; their eyrie 123 
Tlie osprey, or fishing eagle 124 
A Battle in the Air— 
Quotations from the "Life of Thomas Edward" 127 
The merlin and the crow 128 
The Hawks of the Western World — 
The sparrow-hawk described 131, 132 
Falcons and Falconry — 
Sir J. Richardson attacked by gyrfalcons.. . . 133 
Reference to the peregrine falcon 134 
The olden days of chivalry 136 
Haunts of the peregrine 138 
The Heron and Heronries — 
An American cedar-swamp described 141 
About the heron 141 
English heronries 142 
The heron's habits and intelligence 143 
Description of a heronry in Hungary 144 
Alarm created by an intruder 145 
Thomas Edward's narrative 146 
Meditative moments 147 
The Grebe — 
The crested grebe 150 
The little grebe 153 
The Californian Quail — 
Where to go for the crested quail 154 
The common quail and his call 156 
The dwarf quail described l.')6 
About the grouse 157 
The red grouse 158 
The Alp grouse 161 
The blackcock 161 
Birds and Omens — 
A digression upon the auguries of birds 161 
Sea-birds as weather-tokens 162 
Superstitions connected with the raven . . 165, 166 
Poetical allusions to the screech-owl 169 
Historical allusions to owls and omens 170 
More Water-Bird.s — 
Habitat of the cormorant 171 
About the bittern 172 
Love-song of the " bird of desolation" 175 
An unfavourable character 176 
Haunts of the coot 177 
Birds of the Isles— 
Coast-resorts of the sea-birds 178 
The Fame Islands and their feathered colonies 178 
Birds everywhere 179 
Mr. White's description 180 
Digression on the romance of islands 180 
The isles of the Pacific, and their beauty 181 
The gannet and the frigate-bird ISl 
The tropic-bird, or " the boatswain" 182 
Her gracefulness of flight 182 
Bennett's description 183 
The Earl of Pembroke at Tubai 183 
Tropic-birds, their eggs and their young 184 
Albatross-fishing 185 
Catching Cape-pigeons 185 
The pelican's fabled affection for her young. . ISfi 
Illustrations from the old emblem-writers 187 
Toussenel on the pelican 188 
Fact and fiction contrasted 189 
Mode of fishing adopted by the pelicans 190 
The Penguin — • 
Inaccessible Island 195 
Description of the penguin 196 
A penguin colony described 197 
Another colony on Nightingale Island 198 
Intrusion resented 199 
Enemies of the penguin ; a " rookery " 200 
The Solan Goose — 
The solan goose and the Bass Rock 203 
Arctic Sea-Birds — 
An Arctic scene 204 
A bird ' ' bazaar " 204 
A resort of the lummes 205 
A general disturbance 206 
Haunts of the guillemots 206 
Egg-hunting 207 
Guillemots and their eggs 208 
The Wild Swan — 
Migrations of the swan 208 
The mute swan 209 
Poetic fable of her death-song; Tennyson's 
poem 210 
The swan: her mission and her gracefulness.. 213 
Toussenel on the swan 214 
Maternal tenderness of the swan 217 
A Digression — 
A bird of the Himalayan forest 218 
The mandarin duck; the Carolina duck 219 
Isles of the Eastern Seas — 
The islands of the Eastern Archipelago 220 
Form two distinct sections 221 
Differing in animal and vegetable life 221 
Forests of Java — 
Exuberance of vegetation 222 
Rich tropical forests 222 
Trees and tree-ferns 223 
The Birds of Java — 
Precaution against the rice-bird 223 
Owls, eagles, and falcons 224 
The peacock of Java 227 
The great Argus pheasant 228 
