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Super-family V. Passeroideae. 

 Family 1. Alaudid^e. 



2. motacillid^, 



3. Enicurid^. 



4. TlMALIID^. 



o. LioTEiCHU)^. 



6. MuSCICAPID^. 



7. TUEDID^. 



8. ClXCLID^. 



9. Troglodytid^. 



10. Cham^id^. 



11. MlMID^. 



12. HlRUNDIlSriD.E. 



13. Campephagid^. 



14. DlCRURID^. 



15. Ampelid^. 



16. Artajted^. 



17. Lanxcd-5;. 



18. VlREOOTD^E. 



19. Parid^. 



20. Oriolid^. 



21. Paradiseid^. 



22. CORVID^. 



23. Sturnid^^. 



24. Meliphagid^e. 



25. Nectarinhd^e. 



26. Dic^iD^. 



27. Certhhj)^. 



28. ccerebid^. 



29. jMniotiltid^. 



30. Tanagrid^. 



31. PliOCEID^. 



32. ICTERID^. 



33. Fringillid^, 



Although Dr. Stejneger secured the co-operation o£ such competent 

 naturalists as Mr. D. G. Elliot, Mr. W. B. Barrows, and Mr. J. S. 

 Kingsley to describe some of the orders in the ' Standard Natural 

 History,^ there is no doubt that the original work in the volume is 

 almost entirely his own, and he shows a wide insight into the details of 

 the subject. Not only does he incorporate all the best recent work of 

 contemporary authors, but he leaves plenty of food for reflection to the 

 systematist, and no one can doubt that his conclusions have had con- 

 siderable weight with many writers who have succeeded him. 



Compared with Dr. Sclater's arrangement, which was tlic immediate 

 predecessor of Dr. Stejneger's, there are considerable differences to be 

 found in the one proposed by the latter author. Of the Passerine 

 series I shall have to speak presently. The Oligomyodce and Tra- 

 cheophonce of the former scheme are split up by Stejneger into three 

 super-families, each of which is equivalent in value to the Oscines 



