Their Eggs and Nests. 



ORDER IL— INSESSORES. 



Group 1. — DentirostI' 



Family I Laniadce . . 



1 1. MuscicapidcB 



J II. MenilidcE 



IV. Sylviadce^ 



V. ParidcB . 



VI. Ampelidcc 



VII. MotacillidcB 



VIII. Anthidce . 



!•>: (Tooth-Billed). 



Butcher-bird-kind. 



Flycatcher-kind. 



Thrush-kind. 



Wood-bird-kind. 



Titmouse-kind. 



Waxwinf^-kind. 



Wagtail-kind. 



Anthus-kind. 



Family 



Group 2. — Conirostres (Cone-Billed). 



What is mtoAit by the use of the words in question is that the birds 

 grouped together in any one Family, all participate in some likeness 

 of kind— are, so to speak, *' connections " of each other, or that there 

 is a sort of kinship among them. This I have tried to convey in the 

 annexed translation. It ought to be observed also that the bird 

 whose name is given to the entire Family is selected for such pur- 

 pose as possessing the characteristic qualities or peculiarities of tlic 

 Family in question, or, at least, most of them, in the strongest and 

 most marked degree. [The reader sliould, on this point, consult the 

 Introduction to the present edition.] 



1 Sylviachp, I have translated WoofJ -bird-kind, because SyJvkt 

 means something connected with wood, if it means anything. Sylvia 

 is taken, in bird-nomenclature, to denote a Warbler ; and it may be 

 said, that most of those birds which come under this division arc 

 Warblers in some sense, and are, in some degree or other, of sylvan 

 habits ; at least if we give to the word "sylvan" some latitude of 

 meaning. 



