CONTENTS. 



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 CHARACTERISTICS OF ORDERS . 4 



ORDER I. RAPTORES, ROBBERS. 



Family Falconidse, Falcons 7 



Sub-Family Falconinae, Falcons proper 7 



Accipitrinae, Hawks 22 



Buteoninae, Buzzard-Hawks 34 



Aquilinae, Eagles 49 



Family Strigidae, Owls 60 



Sub-Family Buboninas, Horned Owls 60 



Syrninae, Gray Owls 71 



Nycteininae, Day Owls 77 



ORDER II. SCANSORES, CLIMBERS. 



Family Cuculidae, Cuckoos 83 



Picidae, Woodpeckers 87 



ORDER III. INSESSORES, PERCHERS. 



Sub-Order Strisores 110 



Family Trochilidae, Humming-Birds 110 



Cypselidae, Swifts 116 



Caprimulgidae, Goat-Suckers 119 



Sub-Order Clamatores, Screamers 125 



Family Alcedinidae, Kingfishers 125 



Colopteridae, Flycatchers 128 



Sub-Family Tyranninae, Tyrant Flycatchers 128 



Sub-Order Oscines, Singers . 



Family Turdidae, Thrushes 145 



Sub-Family Miminae, Mocking-Birds 163 



Family Saxicolidae, Rock-Inhabiters 175 



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