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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 |