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The Canada Goose, Anser canadensis,[1]
The Red-throated Diver,Colymbus septentrionalis,[20]
The Great Red-breasted Rail, or Fresh-water Marsh-Hen, Rallus elegans,[27]
The Clapper Rail, or Salt-water Marsh-Hen,Rallus crepitans,[33]
The Virginian Rail,Rallus virginianus,[41]
The American Sun Perch,[47]
The Wood Duck,Anas Sponsa,[52]
The Booby Gannet,Sula fusca,[63]
The Esquimaux Curlew,Numenius borealis,[69]
Wilson’s Plover,Charadrius Wilsonius,[73]
The Least Bittern,Ardea exilis,[77]
The Eggers of Labrador,[82]
The Great Blue Heron,Ardea Herodias,[87]
The Common American Gull,Larus zonorhynchus,[98]
The Puffin,Mormon arcticus,[105]
The Razor-billed Auk,Alca Torda,[112]
The Hyperborean Phalarope,Phalaropus hyperboreus,[118]
Fishing in the Ohio,[122]
The Wood Ibis,Tantalus Loculator,[128]
The Louisiana Heron,Ardea ludoviciana,[136]
The Foolish Guillemot,Uria Troile,[142]
The Black Guillemot,Uria Grylle,[148]
The Piping Plover,Charadrius melodus,[154]
The Wreckers of Florida,[158]
The Mallard,Anas Boschas,[164]
The White Ibis,Ibis alba,[173]
The American Oyster-Catcher,Hæmatopus palliatus,[181]
The Kittiwake Gull,Larus tridactylus,[186]
The Kildeer Plover,Charadrius vociferus,[191]
The White Perch and its Favourite Bait,[197]
The Whooping Crane,Grus americana,[202]
The Pintail Duck,Anas acuta,[214]
The Green-winged Teal,Anas Crecca,[219]
The Scaup Duck,Fuligula Marila,[226]
The Sanderling,Tringa arenaria,[231]
A Racoon Hunt in Kentucky,[235]
The Long-billed Curlew,Numenius longirostris,[240]
The Hooded Merganser,Mergus cucullatus,[246]
The Sora Rail,Rallus carolinus,[251]
The Ring-necked Duck,Fuligula rufitorques,[259]
The Sooty Tern,Sterna fuliginosa,[263]
A Wild Horse,[270]
The Night Heron,Ardea Nycticorax,[275]
The Hudsonian Curlew,Numenius hudsonicus,[283]
The Great Marbled Godwit,Limosa Fedoa,[287]
The American Coot,Fulica americana,[291]
The Roseate Tern,Sterna Dougallii,[296]
Reminiscences of Thomas Bewick,[300]
The Great Black-backed Gull,Larus marinus,[305]
The Snowy Heron,Ardea candidissima,[317]
The American Snipe,Scolopax Wilsonii,[322]
The Common Gallinule,Gallinula Chloropus,[330]
The Large-billed Guillemot,Uria Brunnichii,[336]
Pitting of Wolves,[338]
The Eider Duck,Fuligula mollissima,[342]
The Velvet Duck,Fuligula fusca,[354]
The Pied-billed Dobchick,Podiceps carolinensis,[359]
The Tufted Puffin,Mormon cirrhatus,[364]
The Arctic Tern,Sterna arctica,[366]
A Tough Walk for a Youth,[371]
The Brown Pelican,Pelecanus fuscus,[376]
The Florida Cormorant,Phalacrocorax floridanus,[387]
The Pomarine Jager,Lestris pomarinus,[396]
Wilson’s Phalarope,Phalaropus Wilsonii,[400]
The Red Phalarope,Phalaropus fulicarius,[404]
Breaking up of the Ice,[408]
The Reddish Egret,Ardea rufescens,[411]
The Double-crested Cormorant,Phalacrocorax dilophus,[420]
The Hudsonian Godwit,Limosa hudsonica,[426]
The Horned Grebe,Podiceps cornutus,[429]
The Forked-tailed Petrel,Thalassidroma Leachii,[434]
A Maple-sugar Camp,[438]
The Whooping Crane,Grus americana,[441]
The Tropic Bird,Phaeton æthereus,[442]
The Curlew Sandpiper,Tringa subarquata,[444]
The Fulmar Petrel,Procellaria glacialis,[446]
The Buff-breasted Sandpiper,Tringa rufescens,[451]
The Opossum,[454]
The Common Cormorant,Phalacrocorax Carbo,[458]
The Arctic Jager,Lestris parasiticus,[470]
The American Woodcock,Scolopax minor,[474]
The Greenshank,Totanus Glottis,[483]
Wilson’s Petrel,Thalassidroma Wilsonii,[486]
A Long Calm at Sea,[491]
The Frigate Pelican,Tachypetes Aquilus,[495]
Richardson’s Jager,Lestris Richardsonii,[503]
The Cayenne Tern,Sterna cayana,[505]
The Semipalmated Snipe, or Willet,Totanus semipalmatus,[510]
The Noddy Tern,Sterna stolida,[516]
Still Becalmed,[520]
The King Duck,Fuligula spectabilis,[523]
Hutchins’s Goose,Anser Hutchinsii,[526]
Schinz’s Sandpiper,Tringa Schinzii,[529]
The Sandwich Tern,Sterna cantiaca,[531]
The Black Tern,Sterna nigra,[535]
Natchez in 1820,[539]
The Great White Heron,Ardea occidentalis,[542]
The White-winged Silvery Gull,Larus leucopterus,[553]
The Wandering Shearwater,Puffinus cinereus,[555]
The Purple Sandpiper,Tringa maritima,[558]
The Forked-tailed Gull,Larus Sabini,[561]
The Lost Portfolio,[564]
The White-fronted Goose,Anser albifrons,[568]
The Ivory Gull,Larus eburneus,[571]
The Yellowshank,Totanus flavipes,[573]
The Solitary Sandpiper,Totanus chloropygius,[576]
The Red-backed Sandpiper,Tringa alpina,[580]
Labrador,[584]
The Herring Gull,Larus argentatus,[588]
The Crested Grebe,Podiceps cristatus,[595]
The Large-billed Puffin,Mormon glacialis,[599]
The Pectoral Sandpiper,Tringa pectoralis,[601]
The Manks Shearwater,Puffinus Anglorum,[604]
Great Egg Harbour,[606]
The Barnacle Goose,Anser leucopsis,[609]
The Harlequin Duck,Fuligula histrionica,[612]
The Red-necked Grebe,Podiceps rubricollis,[617]
The Dusky Petrel,Puffinus obscurus,[620]
The Golden Plover,Charadrius pluvialis,[623]
Remarks on the Form of the Toes of Birds,[629]

ORNITHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY.