BIRDS. 



351 



(p. 335). Here belong the woodpeckers (Picus, Colaptes) and the wrynecks 

 (7yx). 



SECTION III. ^GITOGNATH^E. Birds with the maxillopalatines 

 not united, the vomer single, broad, and notched in front. In the family 

 PASSERES, which embraces over half the known species of birds, three toes 

 are directed forwards. These birds group themselves in five divisions,. 



FIG. 344. 



Bird of Paradise {Paradissa apoda\ male, from Hertwig, 

 after Levaillant. 



typified by the following forms : The lyre-bird (Menura), the broad-bills 

 (Eurylamia),'i\\& tyrant-birds and king-birds \Tyrannus), the ant-shrikes 

 {Formicaria), and the sparrows (Passer), those allied to the last being fre- 

 quently known as Oscines or singing-birds. Of these the number is legion ; 

 no attempt can be made here to even enumerate their names. 



