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Chapter IV. Cuneirostral continued. — Woodpecker — 
Tame one. — W ryneck — 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. — Turkies, 
Wild — Social habits of. — Partridges, tamed — Nests 
of— Various sorts of. — Quails — Immense flights of. 
— Bustards. — Ostrich — N ests of — Affection — Hunt- 
ing — Strength of. — Cassowary and Emu . . .80 
Chapter V. Water-Birds.— Waders. — Pressirostral— 
Narrow-beaked. — W ater-Hens — Anecdotes of — 
N ests of. — Coots — N ests of. — Jacanas — Singular 
foot of. — Horned Screamers. — Rails. — Oyster- 
Catchers— Tamed. — Cultrirostra — Cutting-billed. — * 
Herons — Tootlied-claw of — Voracity of. — Storks 
and Cranes — Migrations of — Respect paid to. — 
Gigantic Crane — Particulars respecting. — Jabiru.— 
Anastomus — Open-beaked. — Tantalus . . .118 
Chapter VI. Latirostral — Flat-beaked. — Boat-bill. — 
Spoon-bill. — Flamingo — Mode of feeding — Nest of— 
Watchful habits. — Tenuirostral, or Longirostral — 
Long, slender-billed Birds. — Avoset. — Sand-Pipers. 
—Dotterel— Preservation of its Young. — Dunlin’s 
Nest and Eggs. — Plover- — Mode of catching. — Ibis 
- — Mummies of — Why held sacred . . . .144 
Chapter VII. Palmipedes — Web-footed — Serrated or 
tooth-billed. — Geese — Flocks of — How managed — 
Plucking. - — Singular attachment — Sagacity — Cou- 
rage of.— Tree Geese. — Swans — Muscular strength 
—Courage. — Black Swans. — Trade in Swan-quills . 169 
