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DE^'TTKOSTKES. 



SUB-FAMILY IV. 



Campephagin.e.'"' Tlie Caterpillar- eatei's. 



Gen. Charac. — Bill short and rather depressed, with the culmen slightly 

 curved, and the sides compressed to the tip, which is emarginated, and 

 sometimes hooked ; the gape furnished with a few short bristles; the nostrils 

 basal, rounded, and more or less exposed ; the wings moderate, with the 

 third, fourth, and fifth quills the longest ; the tail long and rounded on the 

 sides ; the tarsi short and covered with transverse scales; the toes generally 

 short, and the lateral ones unequal ; the claws moderate, compressed, and 

 much curved. 



Fig. 76.— the braceleted caterpillak-eater. 

 {Ftilogonys armillatits.) 



These birds are found in Africa and Australia^ as 

 well as in India and tlie neiglibouring islands. 

 They are shy and wary, and are usually seen upon 

 trees slowly and carefully searching among the 

 foliasre and examining the leaves for all kinds of 



* ifa/JTT?;, canipe, a caterinllar ; ^oyw, phago, to cat ; Caterpillar- 

 eater. 



