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CONTENTS. 
Part IV. 
DOMESTIC AND SOCIAL LIFE. 
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Chapter I. Every-day Life ..... 255 
„ II. Courtship and Marriage .... 269 
,, III. Nest Building ..... 299 
,, IV. Breeding ...... 321 
,, Y. Breeding Colonies .... 337 
„ YI. Migration ..... 367 
,, VII. Life in Foreign Lands .... 408 
Part V. 
MAN AND THE BIRD. 
Chapter I. Birds and Poetry .... 425 
„ II. Birds and their Friends .... 446 
,, III. The Cage-bird and the Bird-fancier . . 457 
„ IY. Sportsmen and Birds .... 469 
,, V. Bird-catcliing ..... 480 
,, YI. The Naturalist and the Bird . . .495 
Part VI. 
SKETCHES FROM NATURE. 
Chapter I. The Cinerous Vulture .... 509 
„ II. The Bearded Vulture .... 517 
„ III. The Golden Eagle .... 530 
,, IY. The Honey Buzzard .... 542 
„ V. The Greenland Falcon .... 547 
„ YI. The Sparrow Hawk . . . .558 
„ VII. The Eagle Owl.565 
„ VIII. The Nightjar, or Fern Owl . . . 574 
„ IX. The Chimney Swallow .... 583 
,, X. The Cuckoo ..... 592 
