General- Remarks on the Classification of the Passerines. 



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Corvidae. 

 Paradiseidae. 

 Tanagridae. 

 Fringillidae. 



Sylvidae 

 Hirimd'midae 

 Alaudidae 

 Certkidae. 



Tribus II. Tracheophones. Wiudpipe-voiced Birds. 

 Myiotheridae. 8cytalopidae. Anahatidae. 



Tribus III. Picarii. Pecking Birds. 



Ampelidae. Opist/iocomidae. 



Tyrannidae. Musophagidae. 



Trochilidae. Galbulidae. 



Fiisirostres. Picidae. 



Colidae. Cuculidae. 



Prmiitidae. Bucconidae. 



Meropidae. Trogonidae. 



Lipoglossi. Rhamphastidae. 



Coraciadae. Psittacidae. 



This classification is not free from objections, and it may be said against it, as would be 

 said against the orders of Oscines, and Picarii, that Setophaga and Sglvicola are thus placed 

 nearer to one another than Setophaga and Psittacus ; and similarly Eirundo and Cypselus, 

 nearer than Cypsehis and the Psittacidae. If we further consider, that there are no external 

 characters which correspond to internal structure, the most natural classification would 

 be to simply make the families, carefully founded, and united by the form of their larynx, 

 succeed one another in such a way that the Singing Birds and the Parrots should be at 

 the ends. 



Lanidae. Paradiseidae. 



Muscicapidae. Fringillidae. 



Turdidae. Tanagridae. 



Sticrnidae. Sylvidae. 



Meliphagidae. Hirundinidae. 



Cindidae. Alaudidae. 



Corvidae. Certkidae. 



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