Their Eggs and Nests, 



ORDER IL— INSESSORES. 

 Group 1. — Dentirostres (Tooth- Billed). 



Family I. Laniadce . . 

 1 1. Muscicapidce 



III. Merulidcs , 



IV. Sylviadce'^ . 

 V. ParidcB . . 



VI. AmpelidcB . 



VII. Motacillidcs. 



VIII. AntlddcB . . 



Butcher-bird-kind. 



Flycatcher-kind. 



Thrush-kind. 



Wood-bird-kind. 



Titmouse-kind. 



Waxwin^-kind. 



Wagtail-kind. 



Anthus-kind. 



Family 



Group 2. — Conirostres (Cone-Billed). 



What is mtant by the use of the words in question is that the birds 

 grouped together in any one Family, all participate in some likeness 

 of kind — are, so to speak, ** connections " of each other, or that there 

 is a sort of kinship among them. This I have tried to convey in the 

 annexed translation. It ought to be observed also that the bird 

 whose name is given to the entire Family is selected for such pur- 

 pose as possessing the characteristic qualities or peculiarities of the 

 Family in question, or, at least, most of them, in the strongest and 

 most marked degree. [The reader should, on this point, consult the 

 Introduction to the present edition.] 



1 Sylviad(E I have translated Wood -bird-kind, because Sylvia 

 means something connected with wood, if it means anything. Sylvia 

 is taken, in bird-nomenclature, to denote a Warbler ; and it may be 

 said, that most of those birds which come under this division are 

 Warblers in some sense, and are, in some degree or other, of sylvan 

 habits ; at least if we give to the word " sylvan" some latitude of 

 meaning. 



