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T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S.
I h e Olive-sided Flycatcher, . Muscícapa Cooperi, . . Page
Nuttall's Short-Billed Marsh Wren, . 422
Troglodytes brevirostris, . 427
A MOOSE HUNT,
The Spotted or Canada Grous, . . Tetrao canadensis, . . 437
White-headed Pigeon, . . . . .
The Orange-crowned Warbler, .
^oiumoa teucocephala, .
Sylvia celata, . .
. 443
The Wood Wren, . . .
Troglodytes americana, . . 452
The Pine Finch, Fringilla pinus, . . . 455
JOURNEY IN NEW BRUNSWICK AND MAINE,
The Golden Eagle, .
Falco chrysaetos, . . . 464
The Ground Dove, .
Columba passerina, . • 471
American Golden-crested Wren, Regulus tricolor, . . 476
The Mango Humming Bird, . Trochilus Mango, . . - . 480
Bach man's Warbler, Sylvia Bachmanii, . . 483
I H E JDAY OF FUNDY,
. 485
The Pinnated Grous, . . Tetrao Cumrfn
The Boat-tailed Grakle or Great ^ 490
Crow Blackbird, . . . . ƒ Quiscalus major, . . , 504
The Tree Sparrow, . . j Vringilla canadensis, 511
The Snow Bunting, . . j
The Yellow-hpllJpfl WV»r^r»rt«T™». i
emberiza nivális, . . 515
" v -*• *» u c i i i c u yy ooupecKer, . J 3¿CMS varius, . . 519
The Willow Grous, . . 5 Tetrao Saliceti, . . . .
522
528
The Great Cinereous Shrike, . . Z Excubitor. 534
Lincoln's Finch, . Fringilla Uncolnii, .
539
The Hudson's Bay Titmouse, . . J Darus hudsonicus, . . 543
The Ruby-crowned Regulus, . . ij \egulus Calendula, . . 546
THE MERCHANT OF SAVANNAH,
549
xiie iceiana or Jer Jralcon, F
The Common Crossbill, . . .
aleo islandicus, . . . . 552
oxia curvirostra, 559
Swainson's Warbler, . . . $y avia Swainsonii, 563
The Little or Acadian Owl, . . . Stt
Thn T r»-wL- ^,
rix acadica, . . 567
auda alpestris, . . . . 570
KENTUCKY BARBICUE ON THE FOURTH OF JULY, . 576
ORNITHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY.
T H E R A V E N.
CORVUS CORAX, LINN.
P L A T E CI. MALE.
LEAVING to compilers the task of repeating the mass of fabulous and
unedifying matter that has been accumulated in the course of ages, respecting
tliis and other remarkable species of birds, and arranging the
materials which I have obtained during years of laborious but gratifying
observation, I now resume my attempts to delineate the manners of the
feathered denizens of our American woods and plains. In treating of the
birds represented in the Second Volume of my Plates, as I have done with
respect to those of the First, I will confine myself to the particulars which
I have been able to gather in the course of a life chiefly spent in studying
the birds of my native land, where I have had abundant opportunities of
contemplating their manners, and of admiring the manifestations of the
glorious perfections of their Omnipotent Creator.
There, amid the tall grass of the far-extended prairies of the West, in
the solemn forests of the North, on the heights of the midland mountains,
by the shores of the boundless ocean, and on the bosom of the vast lakes
and magnificent rivers, have I sought to search out the things which have
been hidden since the creation of this wondrous world, or seen only by
the naked Indian, who has, for unknown ages, dwelt in the gorgeous but
melancholy wilderness. Who is the stranger to my own dear country
that can form an adequate conception of the extent of its primeval woods,
—of the glory of those columnar trunks, that for centuries have waved in
the breeze, and resisted the shock of the tempest,—of the vast bays of
our Atlantic coasts, replenished by thousands of streams, differing in
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