| Edinburgh, | } |
| 1st December 1834. | } |
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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| The Raven, | Corvus Corax, | [1] |
| The Blue Jay, | Corvus cristatus, | [11] |
| The Canada Flycatcher, | Muscicapa canadensis, | [17] |
| The Chipping Sparrow, | Fringilla socialis, | [21] |
| The Red-bellied Nuthatch, | Sitta canadensis, | [24] |
| The Runaway, | [27] | |
| The Black Vulture or Carrion Crow, | Cathartes Jota, | [33] |
| The Canada Jay, | Corvus canadensis, | [53] |
| The Fox-coloured Sparrow, | Fringilla iliaca, | [58] |
| The Savannah Finch, | Fringilla Savanna, | [63] |
| The Hooded Warbler, | Sylvia mitrata, | [66] |
| The Lost One, | [69] | |
| The Pileated Woodpecker, | Picus pileatus, | [74] |
| The Downy Woodpecker, | Picus pubescens, | [81] |
| The Blue Bird, | Sylvia Sialis, | [84] |
| The White-crowned Sparrow, | Fringilla leucophrys, | [88] |
| The Wood Pewee, | Muscicapa virens, | [93] |
| The Force of the Waters, | [97] | |
| The Ferruginous Thrush, | Turdus rufus, | [102] |
| The Mississippi Kite, | Falco plumbeus, | [108] |
| The Warbling Flycatcher or Vireo, | Vireo gilvus, | [114] |
| The Yellow-throated Flycatcher, or Vireo, | Vireo flavifrons, | [119] |
| The Pewee Flycatcher, | Muscicapa fusca, | [122] |
| The Squatters of the Mississippi, | [131] | |
| The Snowy Owl, | Strix nyctea, | [135] |
| The Blue Grosbeak, | Fringilla cærulea, | [140] |
| The Black and Yellow Warbler, | Sylvia maculosa, | [145] |
| The Green Black-capped Flycatcher, | Muscicapa Wilsonii, | [148] |
| The Brown-headed Nuthatch, | Sitta pusilla, | [151] |
| The Squatters of Labrador, | [154] | |
| The White-headed Eagle, | Falco leucocephalus, | [160] |
| The Rose-breasted Grosbeak, | Fringilla ludoviciana, | [166] |
| The Cat Bird, | Turdus felivox, | [171] |
| The Great Crested Flycatcher, | Muscicapa crinita, | [176] |
| The Yellow-winged Sparrow, | Fringilla passerina, | [180] |
| Townsend's Bunting, | Emberiza Townsendii, | [183] |
| Death of a Pirate, | [185] | |
| The American Robin, or Migratory Thrush, | Turdus migratorius, | [190] |
| The Three-toed Woodpecker, | Picus tridactylus, | [197] |
| The Black-poll Warbler, | Sylvia striata, | [200] |
| The Hemlock Warbler, | Sylvia parus, | [205] |
| The Blackburnian Warbler, | Sylvia Blackburniæ, | [208] |
| A Ball in Newfoundland, | [211] | |
| The Meadow Lark or American Starling, | Sturnus ludovicianus, | [216] |
| The Yellow-breasted Chat, | Icteria viridis, | [223] |
| The Connecticut Warbler, | Sylvia agilis, | [227] |
| The Field Sparrow, | Fringilla pusilla, | [229] |
| The Pine Creeping Warbler, | Sylvia pinus, | [232] |
| The Live-Oakers, | [236] | |
| The Goshawk, | Falco Palumbarius, | [241] |
| The American Sparrow-hawk, | Falco Sparverius, | [246] |
| The Golden-crowned Thrush, | Turdus aurocapillus, | [253] |
| The Small Green Crested Flycatcher, | Muscicapa acadica, | [256] |
| The Yellow Red-poll Warbler, | Sylvia petechia, | [259] |
| Spring Garden, | [263] | |
| The Fish-Crow, | Corvus ossifragus, | [268] |
| The Night-hawk, | Caprimulgus virginianus, | [273] |
| The Pine Swamp Warbler, | Sylvia sphagnosa, | [279] |
| The Sharp-tailed Finch, | Fringilla caudacuta, | [281] |
| MacGillivray's Finch, | Fringilla Macgillivraii, | [283] |
| The Red-eyed Vireo, | Vireo olivaceus, | [287] |
| St John's River in Florida, | [291] | |
| The Turkey Buzzard, | Cathartes Aura, | [296] |
| The White-breasted Nuthatch, | Sitta carolinensis, | [299] |
| The Yellow-rump Warbler, | Sylvia coronata, | [303] |
| The Tennessee Warbler, | Sylvia peregrina, | [307] |
| The Black-throated Blue Warbler, | Sylvia canadensis, | [309] |
| The Florida Keys, | [312] | |
| The American Crow, | Corvus americanus, | [317] |
| The Rusty Grakle, | Quiscalus ferrugineus, | [325] |
| The Chimney Swallow, or American Swift, | Cypselus pelasgius, | [329] |
| The Cardinal Grosbeak, | Fringilla Cardinalis, | [336] |
| The Carolina Titmouse, | Parus carolinensis, | [341] |
| The Florida Keys, | [345] | |
| The Caracara Eagle, | Polyborus vulgaris, | [350] |
| The Zenaida Dove, | Columba Zenaida, | [354] |
| The Yellow Red-Poll Warbler, | Sylvia petechia, | [360] |
| The Tawny Thrush, | Turdus Wilsonii, | [362] |
| Bachman's Finch, | Fringilla Bachmanii, | [366] |
| The Turtlers, | [370] | |
| The Rough-legged Falcon, | Falco lagopus, | [377] |
| The Key West Pigeon, | Columba montana, | [382] |
| The Fork-tailed Flycatcher, | Muscicapa savana, | [387] |
| The Mangrove Cuckoo, | Coccyzus Seniculus, | [390] |
| The Pipiry Flycatcher, | Muscicapa dominicensis, | [392] |
| The Burning of the Forests, | [397] | |
| The Barn Owl, | Strix flammea, | [403] |
| The Blue-headed Pigeon, | Columba cyanocephala, | [411] |
| The Barn Swallow, | Hirundo rustica, | [413] |
| The Olive-sided Flycatcher, | Muscicapa Cooperi, | [422] |
| Nuttall's Short-Billed Marsh Wren, | Troglodytes brevirostris, | [427] |
| A Moose Hunt, | [431] | |
| The Spotted or Canada Grous, | Tetrao canadensis, | [437] |
| White-headed Pigeon, | Columba leucocephala, | [443] |
| The Orange-crowned Warbler, | Sylvia celata, | [440] |
| The Wood Wren, | Troglodytes americana, | [452] |
| The Pine Finch, | Fringilla pinus, | [455] |
| Journey in New Brunswick and Maine, | [459] | |
| The Golden Eagle, | Falco chrysaëtos, | [464] |
| The Ground Dove, | Columba passerina, | [471] |
| American Golden-crested Wren, | Regulus tricolor, | [476] |
| The Mango Humming Bird, | Trochilus Mango, | [480] |
| Bachman's Warbler, | Sylvia Bachmanii, | [483] |
| The Bay of Fundy, | [485] | |
| The Pinnated Grous, | Tetrao Cupido, | [490] |
| The Boat-tailed Grakle or Great Crow Blackbird, | Quiscalus major, | [504] |
| The Tree Sparrow, | Fringilla canadensis, | [511] |
| The Snow Bunting, | Emberiza nivalis, | [515] |
| The Yellow-bellied Woodpecker, | Picus varius, | [519] |
| Cod-fishing, | [522] | |
| The Willow Grous, | Tetrao Saliceti, | [528] |
| The Great Cinereous Shrike, | Lanius Excubitor, | [534] |
| Lincoln's Finch, | Fringilla Lincolnii, | [539] |
| The Hudson's Bay Titmouse, | Parus hudsonicus, | [543] |
| The Ruby-crowned Regulus, | Regulus Calendula, | [546] |
| The Merchant of Savannah, | [549] | |
| The Iceland or Jer Falcon, | Falco islandicus, | [552] |
| The Common Crossbill, | Loxia curvirostra, | [559] |
| Swainson's Warbler, | Sylvia Swainsonii, | [563] |
| The Little or Acadian Owl, | Strix acadica, | [567] |
| The Shore Lark, | Alauda alpestris, | [570] |
| Kentucky Barbicue on the Fourth of July, | [576] |
ORNITHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY.
THE RAVEN.
Corvus Corax, Linn.
PLATE 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 this 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 magnitude, as differ the stars that sparkle in the expanse of the pure heavens,—of the diversity of aspect in our western plains, our sandy southern shores, interspersed with reedy swamps, and the cliffs that protect our eastern coasts,—of the rapid currents of the Mexican Gulf, and the rushing tide streams of the Bay of Fundy,—of our ocean-lakes, our mighty rivers, our thundering cataracts, our majestic mountains, rearing their snowy heads into the calm regions of the clear cold sky? Would that I could delineate to you the varied features of that loved land! But, unwilling, as I always am, to attempt the description of objects beyond my comprehension, you will, I hope, allow me to tell you all that I know of those which I have admired in youth, and studied in manhood,—for the acquisition of which I have braved the enervating heats of the south, and the cramping colds of the north, penetrated the tangled cane-swamp, thrid the dubious trail of the silent forest, paddled my frail canoe in the creeks of the marshy shore, and swept in my gallant bark o'er the swelling waves of the ocean. And now, Kind Reader, let me resume my descriptions, and proceed towards the completion of a task which, with reverence would I say it, seems to have been imposed upon me by Him who called me into existence.