CASSELL'S
BOOK OF BIRDS.
FROM THE TEXT OF DR. BREHM.
BY
THOMAS RYMER JONES, F.R.S.,
PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY IN KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON.
WITH UPWARDS OF
Four Hundred Engravings, and a Series of Coloured Plates.
IN FOUR VOLUMES.
VOL. I.
LONDON:
CASSELL, PETTER, AND GALPIN;
AND NEW YORK.
CONTENTS.
CRACKERS (Enucleatores).
| Parrots (Psittacini). The True Parrot (Psittacinæ):—The Jako—The Amazon Parrot—The Maitakka—The | |
| Crested Hawk Parrot | 24-43 |
| The Dwarf Parrots (Psittacula):—Swinder's Love Bird—The Sparrow Parrot—The Siskin Parrot | 43-45 |
| Cockatoos (Plyctolophus):—The Lemon-crested Cockatoo—Leadbeater's Cockatoo—The Helmet Cockatoo—The | |
| Nose Cockatoo—The Nestor Cockatoo—The Eagle Cockatoo—The Casmalos—Banks's Raven | |
| Cockatoo—The Kakapo, or Night Parrot of New Zealand | 45-57 |
| The Araras (Aræ): The Scarlet Macaw—The Soldier Arara—The Anakan—The Ararauna—The Hyacinth-coloured | |
| Arara. The Parrakeets, or Conical-tailed Parrots (Conurus):—The Garuba—The | |