De Kay. Bird Gods

Today's free book is Bird Gods by Charles De Kay with illustrations by George Wharton Edwards. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

The book is available at Internet Archive, Hathi Trust, and Google Books.

The illustrations are by George Wharton Edwards, and I have made a Flickr collection.

1. The Douve with her Eyen Meeke
2. Picus the Woodpecker
3. The Cuckoo Gods
4. The Couvade in Ireland and Persia
5. Paan the Peacock
6. 'Tis nothing but a little Downy Owl
7. I swear by the Swan
8. The Bird of Fire and Lightning