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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