+----------------------------------------------------------------- + | Transcriber's Note: | | | | Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. | | | | Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant | | form was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed. | | | | Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained. | | | | Mid-paragraph illustrations have been moved between paragraphs | | and some illustrations have been moved closer to the text that | | references them. The pagination of corresponding index entries | | was corrected. | | | | Italicized words are surrounded by underline characters, | | _like this_. | | | | The Contents table was added by the transcriber. | | | | The index contains links to articles in other issues of _Birds | | and Nature_ magazine: Volume VIII Number 1, June, 1900, Volume | | VIII Number 2, September 1900, Volume VIII Number 3, October | | 1900, Volume VIII Number 4, November 1900. | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Birds and Nature, Vol. VIII, No. 5, December 1900, by Various