BIRDS. 83 



kingfishers, with their large strong beaks; and those gems 

 of bird-life, the humming-birds. To the Oscines belong an 



FIG. 35. Bird of Paradise (Paradisea apoda). After Levaillant. 



enormous series of feathered songsters, the mere enumera- 

 tion of which would take a volume the size of the present 



