ENUMERATION OF ANIMALS 



II. BIRDS. 



11. PASSEliES. (Thruslies, stone-chats and blue birds, dippers, king- 

 lets, titmice, nuthatches, creepers, wrens, larks, 

 wagtails, warblers, tanagers, swallows, waxwings, 

 greenlets, shrikes, finches, starlings, black-birds 

 and orioles, crows and jays, flycatchers, and do- 

 mesticated sparrow, canary, &g.) 

 Useful products : 



Foods, (thrushes, rice-birds, &c.) D. 1. 

 Ornamental feathers. D. 23. 

 Useful traits : 



Destroy insects. 



Song-birds, (generally susceptible of domestication.) 

 12-13. PICAET^ AND CUCULI. (Night-hawks, whippoorwills, swifts, 



humming-birds, trogons, saw-bills, 

 kingfishers, cuckoos, woodpeck- 

 ers.) 

 Useful products : Ornamental feathers, (humming-birds, tro 



gons.) D. 23. 

 Useful traits : 



Destroy noxious insects, (night-hawks, swifts.) 

 Destroy tree- borers, (woodpeckers.) 

 Injurious traits : 



Destroy fish, (kingfishers.) 

 Destroy birds'-eggs, (cuckoos.) 

 Destroy fruit, (woodpeckers.) 

 Destroy trees, (sap-sucker.) 



14. PSITTACI. (Parroquet and domesticated parrots.) 



Useful products : Ornamental feathers. D. 23. 

 Useful traits : Susceptible of domestication. 



15. EAPTORES. (Owls, hawks, eagles, vultures, buzzards.) 



Useful products : 



Ornamental feathers. D. 23. 



Quills. D. 22. 

 Useful traits : 



Susceptible of domestication and use in hunting.* 



' Nine species of falcons, hawks, and otvIs have been employed in the chase by 

 Europeans. 



