CONTENTS. 



Characteristics of Orders 4 



ORDER 1.— RAPTORES, ROBBERS. 



Family Falconidis, Falcons 7 



Sub-Family Faleoninse, Falcons proper 7 



Accipitrinae, Hawks 22 



Buteoninae, Buzzard-Hawks 34 



Aquilinae, Eagles 49 



Family Strigidse, Owls 60 



Sub-Family Buboninae, Horned Owls 60 



Syrninae, Gray Owls 71 



Nycteininae, Day Owls 77 



ORDER II. — SCANSORES, CLEVIBERS. 



Family Cuculidae, Cuckoos 83 



Picidae, Woodpeckers 87 



ORDER III. — INSESSORES, PERCHERS. 



Sub-Order Strisores 110 



Family Trochilida;, Humming-Birds 110 



Cypselidae, Swifts 116 



Caprimulgidae, Goat-Suckers 119 



Sub-Order Clamatores, Screamers 125 



Family Alcedinldte, Kingfishers 12.5 



Colopteridae, Flycatchers 128 



Sub-Family Tyranninae, Tyrant Flycatchers 128 



Sub-Order Oscines, Singers 



Family Turdidaj, Thrushes 14.5 



Sub-Family Miminae, Mocking-Birds 163 



Family Saxicolidae, Rock-lnhabiters 175 



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