Volume 1: Preface; 1. On the nature of birds; 2. Explanation of technical terms; Birds of Prey: 4. The eagles; 5. The golden eagle; 6. The ring-tail eagle; 7. The rough-footed eagle; 8. The erne; 9. The osprey; 10. The sea-eagle; 11. The white john; 12. The vultures; 13. The alpine vulture; 14. The fulvous vulture; 15. The cinereous vulture; 16. The hare vulture; 17. The ash-coloured vulture; 18. The condor; 19. The kite and the buzzards; 20. The buzzard; 21. The honey buzzard; 22. The bird Saint Martin; 23. The soubuse; 24. The harpy; 25. The moor buzzard; 26. The sparrow-hawk; 27. The gos-hawk; 28. The jer-falcon; 29. The lanner; 30. The sacre; 31. The common falcon; 32. The hobby; 33. The kestrel; 34. The stone-falcon; 35. The merlin; 36. The shrikes; 37. The great cinereous shrike; 38. The woodchat; 39. The red-backed shrike; 40. The nocturnal birds of prey; 41. The great-eared owl; 42. The long-eared owl; 43. The scops-eared owl; 44. The aluco owl; 45. The tawny owl; 46. The white owl; 47. The brown owl; 48. The little owl; 49. Birds which have not the power of flying; 50. The ostrich; 51. The touyou; 52. The galeated cassowary; 53. The hooded dodo; 54. The solitary dodo, and Nazarene dodo. Volume 2: 1. Great bustard; 2. Little bustard; 3. The cock; 4. The turkey; 5. The guinea pintado; 5. The wood grouse; 6. The black grouse; 7. The black grouse; 8. Broad-tailed black grouse; 9. The black grouse with variable plumage; 10. The hazel grouse; 11. The scotch hazel grouse; 12. The pin-tailed grouse; 13. The red grouse; 14. The white attagas; 15. The ptarmigan; 16. Hudson's-bay ptarmigan; 17. The peacock; 18. The common pheasant; 19. The hoccos; 20. The partridge; 21. The red partridge; 22. The quail; 23. The pigeon domestica; 24. The ring pigeon; 25. The common turtle. Volume 3: 1. The red-legged crow; 2. The hermit crow; 3. The raven; 4. The jackdaws; 5. The alpine daw; 6. The magpie; 7. The jay; 8. The nutcracker; 9. The rollers; 10. The Chinese roll; 11. The grivert, or Cayenne rolle; 12. The garrulous roller; 13. Variety of rollers; 14. The greater bird of paradise; 15. The manucode; 16. The magnificent bird of paradise; 17. The black manucode of New Guinea, called the superb; 18. The sifilet, or manucode with six filaments; 19. The calybe of New Guinea; 20. The ox-pecker; 21. The common stare; 22. Varieties of the stare; 23. The troupiales; 24. The troupiale; 25. The aeolchi of Seba; 26. The ring-tailed oriole; 27. The japacani; 28. The xochotol and the costotol; 29. The tocolin; 30. The commander; 31. The black troupiale; 32. The little black troupiale; 33. The black-capped troupiale; 34. The spotted troupiale of Cayenne; 35. The olive troupiale of Cayenne; 36. The weaver oriole; 37. The whistler; 38. The baltimore; 39. The bastard baltimore; 40. The yellow caffique of Brazil, or the yapou; 41. Variety of the yapou; 42. The carouge; 43. The lesser bonana; 44. The yellow-headed oriole; 45. The olive carouge of Louisiana; 46. The kink; 47. The loriot; 48. Varieties of the loriot; 49. The thrushes; 50. The throstle; 51. Variety of the missel thrush; 52. The fieldfare; 53. Variety of the fieldfare; 54. The mocking birds; 55. The blackbird; 56. The ring ouzel; 57. Varieties of the ring ouzel; 58. The rose-coloured ouzel; 59. The rock blackbird; 60. The blue ouzel; 61. The solitary ouzel; 60. The grisin of Cayenne; 61. The verdin of Cochin China; 62. The azurin; 63. The short tail; 64. The mainate of the East-Indies; 65. The goulin; 66. The paradise Grakle; 67. The chatterer; 68. The grosbeak; 69. The crossbill; 70. The house sparrow; 71. The tree sparrow; 72. The ring sparrow. Volume 4: 1. The canary finch; 2. The habesh of Syria; 3. The linnet; 4. The minister; 5. The bengals, and the senegals; 6. The chaffinch; 7. The brambling; 8. The widows; 9. The greenfinch; 10. The goldfinch; 11. The lesser redpoll; 12. The si