Families of Birds 157 



grass, bents, etc. Eggs of various colours, plain or 

 spotted or marbled. Old World generally. 



FAM. XXXI. Turdida. (Thrushes.) Nest of various materials, 

 cup-shaped, in trees or holes. Eggs various, plain blue, or 

 bluish with red and brown markings. Cosmopolitan. 



FAM. XXXII. Cindida. (Dippers.) Nest domed, of moss, 

 under a rock or roots of a tree. Eggs white. Europe, 

 Northern Asia and the Himalayas, Mountains of North 

 and Central America and the Andes. 



FAM. XXXIII. Troglodytida. (Wrens.) Nest domed and 

 rounded, with an opening on the side, made of moss and 

 lined with feathers, in a hole of tree or building, or against 

 stems or trellis-work ; in some species suspended in reeds. 

 Eggs white, or white slightly speckled with reddish and 

 grey. Europe, Northern Asia, and Himalayas, North and 

 South America. 



FAM. XXXIV. Mimidce. (Mocking-birds.) Nest of twigs or 

 rootlets, in bushes and trees. Eggs plain, bluish-green, or 

 green speckled with rufous. North and South America. 



FAM. XXXV. Timeliida. (Babbling-Thrushes.) Nest various, 

 a rough domed nest of leaves and grass on the ground, or 

 cup-shaped of moss, etc. Eggs uniform greenish-blue or 

 creamy-buff or olive, with spots and blotches of reddish- 

 brown, olive and grey. Africa, India, Indo-Malayan 

 Region, Australia. 



FAM. XXXVI. Pycnonotida. (Bulbuls.) Nest of twigs, grass, 

 and moss, built in trees and bushes. Eggs white, or 

 greenish-white, or pinkish, spotted with purple or brown. 

 Africa, India, Indo-Malayan Region. 



FAM. XXXVII. Campophagida. (Cuckoo-Shrikes.) Nest a 

 shallow cup, of roots or grass and felted with vegetable 

 fibres and moss or lichens. Eggs white or greenish-white, 

 with brown or purplish spots and markings. Africa, India, 

 Indo-Malayan Region, Australia. 



FAM. XXXVIII. Muscicapida. (Fly-catchers.) Nest a rough 

 structure of grass or moss in a hole or on the ground, or in 

 the bark of a tree ; sometimes a beautiful little cup of moss 



