Synopsis of Orders and Families. 



CEDAR WAXWING. 



Family 56. WAXWINGS. AMPELID/E. 



Bill short, stout, and rounded, its tip notched; wings rather long; head crested. 



NORTHERN SHRIKE. 



Family 57. SHRIKES. LANIID/E. Bill stout, its mandible hooked and hawklike; 

 feet truly Passerine; pose, in perching, erect; solitary grayish birds. . . 



Family 58. VIREOS. VlREONID/E. 



Bill small but distinctly hooked; outer primary usually very small and sometimes 

 apparently wanting; olive-green gleaners among the leaves. 



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