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fifteenth and sixteenth families. The next three families are 
the Mniotiltcde or American Warblers, the true Creepers or 
Certhiide, and the Honey-eaters or Meliphagide; while the 
twentieth family is composed of the Sun-birds, Vectarinude, so 
apt to be confounded, popularly, with the Humming-birds. Next 
come the Flower-peckers or Dicwide, followed by the White- 
eves, Zosteropide, and then the attractive families of Titmice ! 
or Paride, and Gold-crests, Regulide. The twenty-fifth family 
is that of the Shrikes, Zantide ; after which comes the family 
of Swallow-shrikes, sometimes called ‘* Wood-swallows,” Arta- 
mide, which consists of only two genera. Then follows the 
small ‘family represented by our Waxwing * (Ampelider), followed 
by the Greenlets or Vireonide. The Warblers, Sylviide, form 
the twenty-ninth family, after which come the Thrushes or 
Turdide * (containing the Nightingale), followed by the Dip- 
pers * or the Cinclidew, which seem to be modified aquatic Wrens 
and far away, indeed, from the Kingfisher in their affinities. 
Then come the Wrens’, T'roglodytida, followed by the Mimide, 
or Mocking-birds, and the Accentors or Accentoride. Next 
comes the thirty- fifth family, or the great family of Babblers, 
Timeliider, followed by that of the Bulbuls ° , Pycnonotide, that 
of the Cuckoo-shrikes, Campophagide, and that of the Fly- 
catchers’, Muscicapide. The thirty-ninth and last family of 
the first section of Passeres is formed by the Martins and 
Swallows °, or Hirundinide. 
The second section of the suborder Passeres, the section 
Mesomyodi, contains twelve families, which are separable into 
divisions, distinguished as Oligomyode, Tracheophone, Atrichie, 
and Menure. 
In the first the lower end of the trachea is not modified to 
form a vocal organ, but in the Tracheophone it is so modified, 
while in them the bronchi do not contribute to form it. 
The first of the twelve families, the fortieth of the suborder 
of Passeres, is that of the Tyrant-birds® or Tyrannide ; then 
comes a family of but three, as yet determined species, the 
Sharp-bills or Oawyrhamphide, followed by the Pipride or 
Manakins, which are small shy birds inhabiting South-American 
woods, and consisting of about seventy species. After this 
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