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their enormously lengthened tail-feathers (see Case S). The two 

 hundred and fifty species of this tropical Old World family are 

 mainly confined to Africa, with a few species distributed eastward 



Fig. 17. Honey Creeper (Ccrthiola flaveold). 



through India to Australia. The Weavers are well known for 

 their extraordinary nest-building (see Fig. 16). 



The Tanagers ( Tanagridce) form also a very large assemblage ; 

 they are strictly American birds, remarkable for the brilliancy of 

 their plumage, and mostly tropical, only five or six of the three 



