CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER I. 
INTRODUCTION. 
Description of the Different Parts of Birds — Classifi- 
cation : Raptores, Insessores, Scansores, Rasores, 
Grallatores, Natatores — On the Flight of Birds — 
Their Plumage, Instinct, Migration, Nests, Eggs, 
Generic Divisions Page 11 
CHAPTER II. 
INSESSORES: PASSERES— OSCINES. 
Description of the Bobolink by “Washington Irving ” 
— Cow-bird — Red-winged Blackbird — Baltimore 
Oriole — Bullock’s Oriole — Orchard Oriole — Meadow 
Lark — Raven 30 
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