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The Bird

by Jules Michelet

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  1. 1Epigraph — Dedication
  2. 2Translator’s Preface
  3. 3Epigraph — How the Author Was Led to the Study of Nature
  4. 4The Egg
  5. 5The Pole — Aquatic Birds
  6. 6The Wing
  7. 7The First Flutterings of the Wing
  8. 8Triumph of the Wing — The Frigate Bird
  9. 9The Shores — Decay of Certain Species
  10. 10The Heronries of America — Wilson, the Ornithologist
  11. 11The Combat — The Tropical Regions
  12. 12Purification
  13. 13Death — Birds of Prey — (The Raptores)
  14. 14The Light — The Night
  15. 15Storm and Winter — Migrations
  16. 16Migrations: Continued — The Swallow
  17. 17Harmonies of the Temperate Zone
  18. 18The Bird as the Labourer of Man
  19. 19Labour — The Woodpecker
  20. 20The Song
  21. 21The Nest — Architecture of Birds
  22. 22The Communities of Birds — Essays at a Republic
  23. 23Education
  24. 24The Nightingale — Art and the Infinite
  25. 25The Nightingale: Continued
  26. 26Conclusion
  27. 27Illustrative Notes

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