Reptiles and Birds / A Popular Account of Their Various Orders, With a Description of the Habits and Economy of the Most Interesting
HAWKING IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
Frontispiece.
REPTILES AND BIRDS.
A POPULAR ACCOUNT OF THEIR VARIOUS ORDERS,
WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE HABITS AND ECONOMY OF THE MOST INTERESTING.
By LOUIS FIGUIER, AUTHOR OF THE WORLD BEFORE THE DELUGE, THE VEGETABLE WORLD, THE INSECT WORLD, ETC. ETC.
ILLUSTRATED WITH 307 WOODCUTS.
BY MM. A. MESNEL, A. DE NEUVILLE, AND E. RIOU.
Edited and Adapted by PARKER GILLMORE ( UBIQUE ).
NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND CO. 1870.
LONDON: PRINTED BY VIRTUE AND CO., CITY ROAD.
Louis Figuier
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REPTILES AND BIRDS.
PREFACE.
ERRATA.
INTRODUCTORY.
Amphibia—(Batrachia, Cuv.)
Chelonia, or Turtles.
Lacertilia.
Ophidia.
Crocodilia.
I. Batrachia.
Tailed Batrachians,
Ophidians.
The Colubrine Venemous Snakes.
The Viperine Snakes,
Pachyglossa,
Strobilosaura
Flying Lizards.
Geckotidæ, or Thick-Tongued Lizards.
Chameleo. (Laurenti.)
Emydosaurians
Crocodiles.
The Alligatoridæ
Land Tortoises.
Marsh Tortoises.
Potamians, or River Tortoises.
Thalassians, or Sea Tortoises.
INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER.
Aves—Birds.
I. Natatores, or Palmipedes.
II. Grallatores.
III. Rasores.
IV. Cantores.
V. Volitores.
VI. Scansores.
VII. Raptores.
The Grebes.
The Crested Grebe.
The Common Duck, or Mallard.
The Golden-eyed Garrot.
The Poachard.
The Shoveller.
The Shieldrake.
The Eider Duck.
The Common Teal.
The Velvet Duck.
The Black Scoter.
The Great-billed Scoter.
The Goosander.
The Smew.
The Wild Goose.
The White-fronted Bernicle Goose.
The Whooping Swan.
Pelicans.
The Green Cormorant, or Shag.
Pelicanidæ.
The White Pelican.
The Crested Pelican.
Gulls and Allied Species.
The Palmidactyles
Macrodactyles.
Cultrirostres.
Pressirostres (Compressed Bills).
Brevipennes (Short-winged Birds).
Extinct Brevipennæ.
Gallinaceæ Proper
Tetraonidæ.
Perdicides.
Tinamides.
Chionidæ.
Megapodidæ.
Phasianidæ.
Columbidæ.
Colombi-Gallines.
Colombes.
Colombars.
Parrots.
Toucans.
Cuckoos.
Woodpeckers.
Jacamars.
Syndactyles.
Tenuirostres.
Conirostres.
Fissirostres.
Dentirostres.
Nocturnal Birds or Prey.
Horned Owls.
Hornless Owls.
Diurnal Birds of Prey.
Falcons.
Sea Eagles.
Vultures.
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