Orders of Birds 153 



Sub-Order MUSOPHAGI. (Plantain-eaters.) Nest of sticks, 

 ia a bush. Eggs three in number, greenish or bluish- 

 white. Africa. 



Sub-Order CUCULI. (Cuckoos.) Nest, none, or a rough 

 one of sticks in a tree or a domed structure on the ground. 

 Many species parasitic. Cosmopolitan. 

 Order SCANSORES. (Climbing Birds.) 



Sub-Order RHAMPHASTIDES. (Toucans.) Nest, none. Eggs 

 white, two in number, laid in hole of tree. South 

 America. 



Sub-Order CAPITONES. (Barbets.) Nest, none. Eggs from 

 three to five, laid in hole of tree or bank. Africa, India, 

 Indo-Malayan countries, South America. 

 Sub-Order INDICATORES. (Honey-Guides.) Nest, none. 

 Eggs white, said to be laid in the nest of Barbets or some 

 other birds. Africa, Himalayas, Mountains of Malayan 

 Peninsula and Borneo. 

 Order PICIFORMES. (Picine Birds.) 



Sub-Order PICI. (Woodpeckers.) Nest, none. Eggs glossy 



white, varying in number according to the genus, from one 



to ten, laid on chips of wood at the bottom of a hole, or 



in ant-hills or even wasps' nests. Cosmopolitan. 



Sub-Order BUCCONES. (Puff-birds.) Nest, none. Eggs two, 



glossy white, laid in hole of bank. South America. 

 Sub-Order GALBUUE. (Jacamars.) Nest, none. Eggs four, 



glossy white, laid in hole of bank. South America. 

 Order EURYUEMI. (Broad-bills.) Nest, pendent from end of 

 bough, of large size, of grass and leaves. Eggs white or salmon- 

 buff, thickly spotted with dull reddish-brown or black. India, 

 Indo-Malayan Region. 



Order MENUR^E. (Lyre-birds.) Nest, a large oven-shaped 

 structure of sticks and moss. Only one egg, of a purplish-grey 

 colour, with spots of darker purplish-brown. Australia. 

 Order PASSERIFORMES. (Perching Birds.) 



Section A. O seines. 



FAMILY I. Corvifa. (Crows.) Nest of sticks and grass in a 



