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I.   FIRST   ORDER.
Rapaces.
The first order of birds in the table is represented by two
families, Day-Rapaees and Nights Rapaces.
The day-rapaces form two tribes : the first—vultures, is repre-
sented by only a single species. In the second—falcons—there
are four genera of fourteen speeies.
The following are the names of aU the species in the first
family :—
The Turkey-Vulture—Cathartes Aura.
The Golden Eagle—Aquila Chrysaetot.
The Bald Eagle—Aquila Leucocephela.
The Osprey Eagle—Aquila Haliœeta.
The Peregrine Falcon—Falco Peregrinus.
The Gyr-Falcon—Falco Islandicus.
The Little Rusty-crowned Falcon—Falco Sparveriut.
The Pigeon-Hawk—Falco Columbarius.
The Merlin—Falco ^Esalon.
The Goshawk—Accipiter Palumbarius.
The Slate-colored Hawk—Accipiter Pennsylvanicus.
The Common Buzzard—Buteo Vulgaris.
The Red-tailed Buzzard—Buteo Borealis.
The Rough-legged Falcon—Buteo Lagopus.
The American Hen-Harrier—Buteo Cyaneus.
In the foregoing list, there is but one vulture, and it is neither
the king of its tribe nor the blaèk vulture ;—but it is a brown
one, found only in the Saskatchewan district, whither it is
attracted probably by the carrion, upon which, alone, it feeds.
The vulture is merely a bird of passage : it arrives later than
other birds, and hence the belief that it does not come at one
flight, but is drawn on gradually by the carcases that engage its
attention en route.
The Golden Eagle is by far the largest of the three of its species
ound here : its home is in the Rocky Mountains.
Plains Indians are passionately fond of the feathers of this bird,
which warrriors' plumes are made.    The number of feathers in