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pleted. — Curious Nests in Africa. — Age of small Birds. 
— Canary Birds. — Trade in. — Bullfinches, Piping. — How 
trained. — Boldness of. — Affectionate and social Habits 
of — Also of Linnets. — Use of small Birds in destroying 
Insects 211 
Chapter XI. Subulirostres ; Awl-shaped Bills.— Manakins : 
curious Nests of. — Tomtits. — Wagtails. — Redstarts. — - 
Robins, &c. — Migration of this Tribe. — Nightingales. — 
Whether they return to same nests. — Ear for Music. — 
Night- Singing Birds. — Planirostres ; Flat-billed. — Swal- 
low Tribe. — Whether occasionally Dormant ; instances 
of — Migration of. — Insects, number devoured by Swal- 
lows. — Spiders, high Flights of. — Curious Nests of Swal- 
lows. — Courage of . . . 232 
Chapter XII. Swallows’ nests, continued. — Edible Nests, 
East Indies. — Goat-suckers. — Mode of seizing Moths. — ■ 
Cavern with their Nests, described. — Tenuirostres ; 
Narrow-billed. — Nuthatch. — Tree-Creeper. — Bee-Eater. 
Hoopoe. — Kingfisher. — Humming Birds. — Climbing 
Birds. — Cuneirostres ; Wedge-billed. — J acamar. — Anis. 
Cuckoo. — Anecdotes and Habits of 253 
Chapter XIII. Cuneirostral, continued. — Woodpecker — 
Tame one.— Wryneck — Tongue of. — Levirostral; Light- 
billed. — Parrots. — Toucan. — Gallinaceous ; Poultry 
tribe. — Pigeons, American — Prodigious numbers of — 
Rapid flight — Employed as Messengers — Mode of 
catching — Attachments of. — Cocks. — Pheasants — 
Courage of. — On breeding Pheasants — Box for Feeding 
— Prized by Ancients. — Turkeys, Wild — Social Habits 
of. — Partridges, tamed — Nests of — Various sorts of. — ■ 
Quails — Immense Flights of. — Bustards. — Ostrich — 
Nests of — • Affection — - Hunting — Strength of — 
Cassowary and Emu . . , 273 
CHAPTER XIY. Water Birds. — Waders. — Pressirostral ; 
Narrow-beaked. — Water-Hens. — Anecdotes of — Nests 
of.— Coots— Nests of.— Jacanas— Singular Foot of,— 
