CONTENTS. 
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CHAPTER VII. 
INSESSORES: SYNDAOTYLI AND ZYGODACTYLI. 
Belted Kingfisher — California and Red-headed Wood- 
peckers — A Narrative of the California Woodpecker, 
by “ Kelley” — Ivory-billed, Golden-wing, Yellow- 
bellied, and Downy Woodpeckers — Cuckoo — Parrots 
— Anecdote of a Parrot, from Gosse’s “Natural His- 
tory of Birds” 127 
CHAPTER VIII. 
INSESSORES : SYNDACTYLI. 
Humming Birds. s 152 
CHAPTER IX. 
INSESSORES: A CCIP1TRES. 
Walk to the Fields — Habits of Different Birds — Tur- 
key Buzzard — V ulture — Cond or — Eagle — Hawk — 
Falcon — Kite — Hawk Owl — and the Owl 168 
CHAPTER X. 
INSESSORES: PULLASTRJE. CURSORES: GALLINAE. 
Pigeons — Great Flight of Pigeons, by “Audubon” — - 
Turtle Dove — Wild Turkey — American and Gamble’s 
Partridge — Canada, Ruffled, and Pinnated Grouse 
— Ptarmigan 189 
