Ornithological Biography/Volume 1
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ORNITHOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY, OR AN ACCOUNT OF THE HABITS OF THE BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; ACCOMPANIED BY DESCRIPTIONS OF THE OBJECTS REPRESENTED IN THE WORK ENTITLED THE BIRDS OF AMERICA, AND INTERSPERSED WITH DELINEATIONS OF AMERICAN SCENERY AND MANNERS.
FELLOW OF THE LINNEAN AND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON; MEMBER OF THE LYCEUM AND LINNEAN SOCIETY OF NEW YORK, OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF PARIS, THE WERNERIAN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH; HONORARY MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF NATURAL HISTORY OF MANCHESTER, AND OF THE SCOTTISH ACADEMY OF PAINTING, ARCHITECTURE, AND SCULPTURE, &C. EDINBURGH: ADAM BLACK, 55. NORTH BRIDGE, EDINBURGH; R. HAVELL JUN., ENGRAVER, 77. OXFORD STREET, AND LONGMAN, REES, BROWN, & GREEN, LONDON; GEORGE SMITH, TITHEBARR STREET, LIVERPOOL; T. SOWLER, MANCHESTER; MRS ROBINSON, LEEDS; E. CHARNLEY, NEWCASTLE; POOL & BOOTH, CHESTER; AND BEILBY, KNOTT, & BEILBY, BIRMINGHAM. MDCCCXXXI. |
NEILL & CO. PRINTERS,
Old Fishmarket, Edinburgh.
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| The Wild Turkey, | Meleagris Gallopavo, | 1 |
| The Yellow-billed Cuckoo, | Coccyzus Americanus, | 18 |
| The Prothonotary Warbler, | Sylvia Protonotarius, | 22 |
| The Purple Finch, | Fringilla purpurea, | 24 |
| Bonaparte's Fly-catcher, | Muscicapa Bonapartii, | 27 |
| The Ohio, | 29 | |
| The Wild Turkey. Female. | Meleagris Gallopavo | 33 |
| The Purple Grakle, or Common Crow-Black-bird, | Quiscalus versicolor, | 35 |
| The White-throated Sparrow, | Fringilla pennsylvanica, | 42 |
| Selby's Flycatcher, | Muscicapa Selbii, | 46 |
| The Brown Titlark, | Anthus Spinoletta, | 49 |
| The Great Pine Swamp, | 52 | |
| The Bird of Washington, | Falco Washingtonii, | 58 |
| The Baltimore Oriole, | Icterus Baltimore, | 66 |
| The Snow Bird, | Fringilla hyemalis, | 72 |
| The Prairie Warbler, | Sylvia discolor, | 76 |
| The Blue Yellow-backed Warbler, | Sylvia americana, | 78 |
| The Prairie, | 81 | |
| The Great-footed Hawk, | Falco peregrinus, | 85 |
| The Carolina Turtle Dove, | Columba carolinensis, | 91 |
| Bewick's Wren, | Troglodytes Bewickii, | 96 |
| The Louisiana Water Thrush, | Turdus ludovicianus, | 99 |
| The Blue-winged Yellow Warbler, | Sylvia solitaria, | 102 |
| The Regulators, | 105 | |
| The Mocking Bird, | Turdus polyglottus, | 108 |
| The Purple Martin, | Hirundo purpurea, | 115 |
| The Yellow-breasted Warbler, or Maryland Yellow-throat, | Sylvia Trichas, | 121 |
| Roscoe's Yellow-throat, | Sylvia Roscoe, | 124 |
| The Song Sparrow, | Fringilla melodia, | 126 |
| Improvements in the Navigation of the Mississippi, | 130 | |
| The Carolina Parrot, | Psittacus carolinensis, | 135 |
| The Red-headed Woodpecker, | Picus erythrocephalus, | 141 |
| The Solitary Fly-catcher, or Vireo, | Vireo solitarius, | 147 |
| The Towhe Bunting, | Fringilla erythrophthalma, | 150 |
| Vigors's Warbler, | Sylvia Vigorsii, | 153 |
| A Flood, | 155 | |
| The White-headed Eagle, | Falco leucocephalus, | 160 |
| The Black-billed Cuckoo, | Coccyzus erythrophthalmus, | 170 |
| The American Goldfinch, | Fringilla tristis, | 172 |
| The Worm-eating Warbler, | Sylvia vermivora, | 177 |
| Children's Warbler, | Sylvia Childrenii, | 180 |
| Meadville, | 182 | |
| The Stanley Hawk, | Falco Stanleii, | 186 |
| The Golden-winged Woodpecker, | Pictis auratus, | 191 |
| The Kentucky Warbler, | Sylvia formosa, | 196 |
| The Crested Titmouse, | Parus bicolor, | 199 |
| The American Redstart, | Muscicapa Ruticilla, | 202 |
| The Cougar, | 205 | |
| The Ruffed Grouse, | Tetrao Umbellus, | 211 |
| The Orchard Oriole, | Icterus spurius, | 221 |
| The Cedar Bird, | Bombycilla carolinensis, | 227 |
| The Summer Red Bird, | Tanagra æstiva, | 232 |
| Traill's Fly-catcher, | Muscicapa Traillii, | 236 |
| The Earthquake, | 239 | |
| The Barred Owl, | Strix nebulosa, | 242 |
| The Ruby-throated Humming Bird, | Trochilus colubris, | 248 |
| The Azure Warbler, | Sylvia azurea, | 255 |
| The Blue-green Warbler, | Sylvia rara, | 258 |
| The Black-and-yellow Warbler, | Sylvia maculosa, | 260 |
| The Hurricane, | 262 | |
| The Red-tailed Hawk, | Falco borealis, | 265 |
| Chuckwill's Widow, | Caprimulgus carolinensis, | 273 |
| The Painted Finch, | Fringilla ciris, | 279 |
| The Rice Bird, | Icterus agripennis, | 283 |
| Cuvier's Regulus, | Regulus Cuvierii, | 288 |
| Kentucky Sports, | 290 | |
| The Red-shouldered Hawk, | Falco lineatus, | 296 |
| The Loggerhead Shrike, | Lanius ludovicianus, | 300 |
| The Hermit Thrush, | Turdus minor, | 303 |
| The Chestnut-sided Warbler, | Sylvia icterocephala, | 306 |
| The Carbonated Warbler, | Sylvia carbonata, | 308 |
| The Traveller and the Pole-cat, | 310 | |
| The Great Horned Owl, | Strix virginiana, | 313 |
| The Passenger Pigeon, | Columba migratoria, | 319 |
| The White-eyed Flycatcher, or Vireo, | Vireo noveboracensis, | 328 |
| The Swamp Sparrow, | Fringilla palustris, | 331 |
| The Rathbone Warbler, | Sylvia Rathbonia, | 333 |
| Deer Hunting, | 335 | |
| The Ivory-billed Woodpecker, | Picus principalis, | 341 |
| The Red-winged Starling, or Marsh Blackbird, | Icterus phœniceus, | 348 |
| The Republican, or Cliff Swallow, | Hirundo fulva, | 353 |
| The Bay-breasted Warbler, | Sylvia castanea, | 358 |
| Henslow's Bunting, | Emberiza Henslowii, | 360 |
| Niagara, | 362 | |
| The Winter Hawk, | Falco hyemalis, | 364 |
| The Swallow-tailed Hawk, | Falco furcatus, | 368 |
| The Wood Thrush, | Turdus mustelinus, | 372 |
| The Indigo Bird, | Fringilla cyanea, | 377 |
| Le Petit Caporal, | Falco temerarius, | 381 |
| Hospitality in the Woods, | 383 | |
| The Virginian Partridge, | Perdix virginiana, | 388 |
| The Belted Kingsfisher, | Alcedo Alcyon, | 394 |
| The Great Carolina Wren, | Troglodytes ludovicianus, | 399 |
| The Tyrant Fly-catcher, | Muscicapa tyrannus, | 403 |
| The Prairie Titlark, | Anthus pipiens, | 408 |
| The Original Painter, | 410 | |
| The Fish Hawk, or Osprey | Falco Haliaetus, | 415 |
| Whip-poor-will, | Caprimulgus vociferus. | 422 |
| The House Wren, | Troglodytes ædon, | 427 |
| The Blue-grey Fly-catcher, | Muscicapa cœrulea, | 431 |
| The Yellow-throated Warbler, | Sylvia pensilis, | 434 |
| Louisville in Kentucky, | 437 | |
| The Black Warrior, | Falco Harlani, | 441 |
| The Florida Jay, | Corvus floridanus, | 444 |
| The Autumnal Warbler, | Sylvia autumnalis, | 447 |
| The Nashville Warbler, | Sylvia rubricapilla, | 450 |
| The Black-and-white Creeper, | Certhia varia, | 452 |
| The Eccentric Naturalist, | 455 | |
| The Broad-winged Hawk, | Falco pennsylvanicus, | 461 |
| The Pigeon Hawk, | Falco columbarius, | 466 |
| The Sea-side Finch, | Fringilla maritima, | 470 |
| The Grass Finch, or Bay-winged Bunting | Fringilla graminea, | 473 |
| The Yellow-poll Warbler, | Sylvia æstiva, | 476 |
| Scipio and the Bear, | 479 | |
| The Columbian Jay, | Corvus Bullockii, | 483 |
| The Little Screech Owl, | Strix Asio, | 486 |
| The White-bellied Swallow, | Hirundo bicolor, | 491 |
| The Cow-pen Bird, | Icterus pecoris, | 493 |
| The Marsh Wren, | Troglodytes palustris, | 500 |
| Colonel Boon, | 503 | |
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