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ANALYSIS OF SUB.TECTS. 
Once More in the Virgin Forest — 
The golden-breasted trumpeter 3V4 
His food; his tamable disposition 377 
The Kamichi, or Screamer — 
A bird of the Amazonian forests 377 
His characteristics and habits 378 
About the Jabiru — 
His various peculiarities indicated 385 
Deserves to be considered a model bird 387 
The African Touraco — 
An Abyssinian bird 387 
His handsome appearance 388 
v.— BIRD ARCHITECTURE. 
The Bower-Bird's Bower — 
A remarkable fabric 391 
Particulars of its builder, the bower-bird .... 392 
Description of the fabric itself 393 
Pleasure-bower of the spotted bower-bird 394 
The Hornray — 
Curious nest and curious custom 397 
Mr. Tickell's narrative 398 
The Philippine Weaver-Bird — 
Pendent nest of this member of the Ploceinae 399 
The Baya— 
Another pensile nest-builder 399 
How it is constructed 400 
How it is studded with fire-flies 400 
African Weaver-Birds — 
Habits and haunts of the euplectes 401 
Nest of tlie alecto weaver-bird 402 
Range of the sociable grosbeak 402 
Le Vaillant's description of a feathered com- 
munity 403 
A colony of nests 404 
Story of the Hottentot 404 
" Birds in their little nests agree " 405 
The yellow oriole as a nest-builder 405 
Pensile Nests — 
The purpose they serve 406 
The Baltimore oriole 407 
His choice of materials 408 
The orchard oriole's nest 408 
The Cassiques — 
Fine voice and imitative skill of these birds.. 410 
Their cleverness in nest-building 411 
Their sociability 412 
The Prince de Wied on their nest 412 
Nest of the japiru 413 
The Flycatchers — 
Nest of the great crested flycatcher 414 
Nest of " whip-tom-kelly" 414 
Nest of the white-eyed flycatcher 414 
The Klecko Swallow — 
A curious structure 415 
Edible Nests — 
.\ccount of the esculent swallow 416 
Her nest, and its materials 417 
Nest of the kusappi described 419 
Nests op Ocean-Birds — 
The hooded merganser, and all about him.. . . 420 
His mode of swimming ; his nest 421 
The Mews — 
" Homestead " of the mews 424 
Their various species 424 
Birds of Prey — 
Eude nests of the eagle and vulture 425 
The Egrets — 
About the black-billed egret * 428 
The Curlew — 
The great curlew, or " whaup" 428 
His habitat and nest 429 
The mother-bird and her eggs 432 
Nests at Home — 
Nests of English song-birds 432 
A fable of the magpie and the rook 433 
The Goldfinch — 
Beautiful workmanship of his tiny nest 434 
The Chaffinch — 
Waterton on the chaflinch's nest 437 
The Linnet — 
Digression on the linnet's song 4:38 
TtiE Yellowammer — 
Remarks on the nests of British birds 439 
The Skylark — 
His song ; quotation from Wordsworth 440 
The Sand-Martin — 
A little bird and a great task 441 
The Lapwino— 
The lapwing and his ways described 442 
Dexterity and rapidity of his flight 443 
Audacious aerial performances 444 
The mother-bird's stratagem 445 
The Wagtail — 
His nest and his song, both characteristic. 445, 446 
The swallow wagtail 446 
The Kingfisher — 
Gessner's marvellous collection of fables 447 
Superstitions connected with the kingfisher. . 449 
His nest concealed at the end of a tunnel.. .. 449 
Favourite locality of the Brazilian kingfisher. 450 
The Cock of the Rock — 
Nest of the rupicola, a South American bird. 450 
Sir Richard Schomburgk's account of a danc- 
ing party of rupicoles 453 
I The Diamond-Bird — 
An Australian "chatterer" 454 
His nest a masterpiece of workmanship 455 
The Oven-Bird — 
A South American bird, and his kiln-like 
nest 455, 456 
The Cave Mi dwaller — 
Habits of this little mason-bird 456 
His singular choice of a residence 457 
The Hoopoe — 
All about the characteristics of the hoo- 
poe 457, 458 
The nest which he constructs 459 
Birds that buUd in the hollows of trees 4(i0 
Conclusion 460 
* This description is accidentally misplaced. The reader will be pleased to consider it as an .appendage 
to our account of the heron ipp. 139-149 . 
