The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities

Everything a Victorian found astonishing, gathered into one enormous volume — burning springs and buried cities, freaks of storm and flood, the habits of bees and the manners of nations, filed under headings like “Curiosities Respecting Man.”

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Curiosities Respecting Birds

The Common Peacock-The Egyptian Vulture-The Secretary Vulture-The Stork- The Great Pelican-The Bird of Paradise-The Ostrich-The Mocking-bird of America-The Social Grosbeak-The Bengal Grosbeak-The Humming-bird-The Golden Eagle 204 811

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