The domestic habits of birds / [Anon].

  • James Rennie
Date:
1833
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The domestic habits of birds / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Page King of the Quails ...... 43 Origin of the notion of King Birds . . . .43 King Bird of Paradise . . . . . ,44 King of the Vultures ...... 45 Eagle as King of the Birds . . . . .46 Eagle standards of nations . . . , .47 The Condor . . ..... 48 The Wren, a King Bird ‘ . . . . .49 Solitary Birds . . ‘ . . . . . .50 The Jack-snipe ....... 50 The Sand-piper and Wagtail . . . . .52 The Dunlin . . . . . . .53 CHAPTER III. Birds, solitary or gregarious, on account of shelter or assist- ance ........ 54 The sociable Grosbeak of Africa . . . .54 Anecdote of a Swallow . . . . .55 Analogy from Insects and Quadrupeds . . .56 Crowding together of House Sparrows . • .59 Contest for places among Bottle-tits . . .60 Roosting of the Blackbird, Thrush, and Starling . , 61 Roosting of the Wren . , . . . .62 Analogy from Sheep ...... 63 Birds solitary and gregarious at different seasons . 65 The Lark ........ 65 The Wheat-ear 67 ' CHAPTER IV. Pairing of Birds ....... 69 Extraordinary proportion of the sexes . . .69 Difference in the male parents of quadrupeds and birds 70
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