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Larks (Melanocorypha) Horned Larks (Otocorys) The Wagtails and Pipits 

 (Motacillidce) Wagtails (Motacilla) White Wagtail Yellow-Headed, Gray, 

 Blue-Headed, and Cape Wagtails Pipits (Antlnis) True Pipit Meadow Pipit 

 Richard's Pipit Tawny Pipit The Creepers (Certhiidce) Wall Creeper (Ticho- 

 droma) Australian Straight Claws (Ort/ionyx) The Nuthatches (Sittidce) The 

 Honey Eaters (Melipliagidce) Parson Bird (Prosthemadera) Stitch Bird (Pog- 

 onornis) White-Eyes (Zosterops) The Sunbirds (Nectariniidce) Typical Group 

 (Nectatinia) The Honey Peckers (Dic&ida;) The Tits (Paridcz) True Tits 

 (Parus) Crested Tits ( Lop/iopfianes) Long-Tailed Tits (Acredula) Bearded Tits 

 (Panurus) New Zealand Creepers (Certhiparus) Allied Types The Shrikes 

 (Laniidtz) Shrike Tits (Falcunculus) True Shrikes (Lanius) Great Gray, 

 Lesser Gray, Red-Backed, Woodchat, Masked_, and Hooded Shrikes Minivets 

 (Pericrocotus) Other Genera The Waxwings (Ampelidte) Cedar Bird, . 1591 



CHAPTER V. PERCHING BIRDS, continued. 



THE THRUSHES AND WARBLERS (Turdidte) True Thrushes (Turdus) Missel Thrush 



Song Thrush Redwing Fieldfare Blackbirds (Merula) Rock Thrushes 

 (Monticola) Bluebirds (Sialia) Chats (Saxicola) Wheatear Blackchat 

 Whinchat Stonechat Forktails (Henicurus) Redstarts (Ruticilla) Black Red- 

 start Blue-Throated Warbler (Erythacus) Redbreast Rubythroat Night- 

 ingales New Zealand Robins (Miro) Dhyal Birds (Copsychus) Shamas (Cil- 

 tocincla) Gray Warbler (Gerygone) True Warblers (Sylvia) Whitethroats 

 Subalpine, Spectacled, Sardinian, Orphean, and Garden Warblers Blackcap 

 Barred, Dartford, and Willow Warblers Icterine Warbler (Hypolais) -r- Reed War- 

 blers (Acrocepkalus) Grasshopper Warbler (Locustella) River Warbler Savi's 

 Warbler Pheasant-Tailed Warbler (Stipiturus malacurus) Cetti's Warbler 

 (Bradypterus) Fan- Tailed Warblers (Cisticola} Accentors (Accentor) Hedge 

 Sparrow Goldcrest (Regulus) Firecrest Rubycrest The Wood Warblers 

 (Mniotiltidce) The Dippers ( Cinclidce) The Wrens ( Troglodytidce) True Wrens 

 ( Troglodytes) Cactus Wrens ( Campylorhynchus) The Mocking Birds (Mimidce) 



The Babblers (Crateropodidce) Typical Babblers (Crateropus) Green Bulbuls 

 (Chloropsis) True Bulbuls (Pycnonotus) Liothrix The Flycatchers (Musci- 

 capidce) True Flycatchers (Muscicapa) Spotted, Pied, White-Collared, and 

 Red-Breasted Flycatchers Paradise Flycatchers ( Terpsiphone) Fantail Fly- 

 catchers (Rhipidura) The Swallows (Hirimdinidce) True Swallows (Hirundo) 



Chimney and Red-Rumped Swallows Martins (Chelidon) Sand Martins 

 (Cotile) Purple Martins (Progne), . . . . . . . 1643 



CHAPTER VI. PERCHING BIRDS, concluded. 



THE AMERICAN FLYCATCHERS (Tyrannidcz) Tyrant Flycatchers (Tyrannus) Bien- 

 teveo Tyrant Ant Birds (Formicivora) The Chatterers (Cotingidce) Umbrella 

 Bird (Cepkalopterus) Bell Birds (Chasmorhynchus) Cotingas (Cotinga) 

 Manakins (Pipra) Cocks of the Rock (Riipicola) The Plant Cutters (Pliytoto- 

 midce) The Broadbills (Eurylcemida) The Pittas (Pittidce) The Woodhewers 

 (Dendrocolaptidce) Oven Birds (Furnarius) Spine Tails (Synallaxis) The 

 Lyre Birds (Menuridfz), ........ J 7O3 



CHAPTER VII. THE PICARIAN BIRDS, Order Picarice. 



GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ORDER The Jacamars (Galbulidte) True Jacamars 

 (Galbula) Broad-Billed Jacamars (Jacamerops) The Puff Birds (Bucconidce) 

 The Woodpeckers (Picidce) Ground Woodpecker (Geocolaptes) Bright- Shafted 

 Woodpeckers (Colaptes) Golden- Winged, and Pampas Woodpeckers Green 



