CATALOGUE 



BIRDS. 



Order II. PASSERIFORMES 



(Cat. B. vol. iii. p. 1). 



Suborder I. PASSERES 



(Cat. B. vol. iii. p. 1). 



Section B. FIUNGILLIFOBMES. 



(NINE-QUILLED PASSEEES.) 



Wing with nine primaries, the first of which is fully developed 

 and usually very long*. 



Cf. Wallace, Ibis, 1874, p. 410. 



The families which Mr. Wallace has arranged in his Series B, 

 Tanagroid Passercs, do not fall easily into a linear series. The 

 Motacillkla' ally the group with the Larks (Alaudidce), which wiU 

 be treated of under the third Section (C) in a later volume. The 

 Uiccddce cannot be separated far from the Nectariniidiv, described 

 in vol. ix., and some of the aberrant genera, such as Ehamplwcharis, 

 exhibit a great likeness to some of the MeliphagidcB. The Maiotiltidce, 

 or American Warblers, lead through the Ccerehidce to the Tancu/ridce, 

 and thence to the Frinr/UUdie. The Ideridce, which are nearly allied 

 to the Tanaijridce, represent in the IS'ew World the Weaver-bii'ds 

 (Ploceidip) of the Old World. The Chatterers {Ampdidce) and the 

 Swallows (Hirundinidce) are, as Mr. Wallace has remarked, difficult 

 to locate ; but the AmpeUdce maybe arranged somewhere near Far- 

 dalotiis ; and the nearest allies of the Swallows really seem to be the 

 Flycatchers, which approach them closely through the genera Hemi- 

 chelidon, Artomyias, and others. 



* Some exceptions are seen in the family Dicmidts, as, for instance, in the 

 genus Pardalotus and Priotiochilus, which, however, could not be divorced from 

 the rest of the Flower-peckers without doing Tiolence to the general arrange- 

 ment of the family. 



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