The Bird
by Jules Michelet
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About this eBook
- Author
- Michelet, Jules, 1798-1874
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Sonya Schermann and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QL: Science: Zoology
- Subject
- Birds
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 43341
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43341
- Release Date
- July 28, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE BIRD
- 2.To Madame Michelet.
- 3.Translator's Preface.
- 4.Contents.
- 5.How the Author was led to the Study of Nature.
- 6.THE EGG.
- 7.THE POLE. AQUATIC BIRDS.
- 8.THE WING.
- 9.THE FIRST FLUTTERINGS OF THE WING.
- 10.TRIUMPH OF THE WING. THE FRIGATE BIRD.
- 11.THE SHORES. DECAY OF CERTAIN SPECIES.
- 12.THE HERONRIES OF AMERICA. WILSON, THE ORNITHOLOGIST.
- 13.THE COMBAT. THE TROPICAL REGIONS.
- 14.PURIFICATION.
- 15.DEATH. BIRDS OF PREY.—(THE RAPTORES).
- 16.THE LIGHT. THE NIGHT.
- 17.STORM AND WINTER. MIGRATIONS.
- 18.MIGRATIONS: CONTINUED. THE SWALLOW.
- 19.HARMONIES OF THE TEMPERATE ZONE.
- 20.THE BIRD AS THE LABOURER OF MAN.
- 21.LABOUR. THE WOODPECKER.
- 22.THE SONG.
- 23.THE NEST. ARCHITECTURE OF BIRDS.
- 24.THE COMMUNITIES OF BIRDS. ESSAYS AT A REPUBLIC.
- 25.EDUCATION.
- 26.THE NIGHTINGALE. ART AND THE INFINITE.
- 27.THE NIGHTINGALE: CONTINUED.
- 28.CONCLUSION.
- 29.ILLUSTRATIVE NOTES.
- 30.FOOTNOTES:
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