E-text prepared by Jane Robins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 57450-h.htm or 57450-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57450/57450-h/57450-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/57450/57450-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/cassellsbookofbi02breh Project Gutenberg has another volume of this work. Volume I: see http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48675 Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Text enclosed by equal signs is in bold face (=bold=). [Illustration: _Plate 15. Cassell's Book of Birds_ THE PURPLE CRESTED CORYTHAIX ____ Corythaix macrorhynchus _Nat. Size_] 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. II. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin; and New York. CONTENTS. PAGE CATCHERS (_Captantes_).--_Continued._ THE HAWKS (_Accipiter_):--The Laughing Hawk--The Double-toothed Hawk--The Sparrow Hawk--The True Hawk, or Gos Hawk. The SINGING HAWKS (_Melierax_):--The True Singing Hawk--The Serpent Hawk 1-7 RAPTORIAL BIRDS. THE EAGLES (_Aquila_):--The Tawny Eagle--The Golden Eagle--The Imperial Eagle--The Spotted Eagle. The DWARF EAGLES (_Hieraëtos_):--The Booted Eagle--The Dwarf Eagle. The WEDGE-TAILED EAGLES (_Uroaëtos_):--The Bold Wedge-tailed Eagle. The HAWK EAGLES (_Pseudaëtos_, _Eudolmaëtos_, or _Asturaëtos_):--Bonelli's Hawk Eagle. The HOODED EAGLES (_Spizaëtos_):--The Martial Hooded Eagle--The Tufted Eagle. The DESTROYING EAGLES (_Pternura_):--The Urutaurana. The BRAZILIAN EAGLES (_Morphnus_):--The Crested Brazilian Eagle--The Harpy Eagle. The SEA EAGLES (_Haliaëtos_):--The Sea Eagle--The White-headed Sea Eagle--The African Screaming Sea Eagle--The Osprey, River Eagle, or Fish Hawk 7-31 THE KITES (_Milvus_):--The Short-tailed Kite. The GLIDING KITES (_Elanus_):--The True Gliding Kite. The HOVERING KITES (_Ictinia_):--The Mississippi Kite. The CROOKED-BILLED KITES (_Cymindis_):--The Buzzard Kite--The Syama or Baza 31-37