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

 an enormous series of feathered songsters, the mere enume- 



FIG. 155. Bird of Paradise (Paradisea apoda). After Levaillant. 



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

 one, the whole series reaching its apex in that pestilential 



