i 4 o THE STORY OF THE BIRDS 



Crows (Corvidae), the Wagtails and Pipits 

 (Motacillidae), the Finches (Fringillidae) ; but the 

 latter have no Australian Region representatives ; 

 the Swallows (Hirundinidae) and the Thrushes 

 (Turdidae). There are few parts of the world 

 where these groups are not represented. Among 

 the families of less general dispersal, yet repre- 

 sented in both the New and Old Worlds, we may 

 instance the Dippers (Cinclidae), the Wrens 

 (Troglodytidae), the Creepers (Certhiidae), the 

 Nuthatches (Sittidae), the Titmice (Paridae), the 

 Shrikes (Laniidae), the Waxwings (Ampelidae) 

 and the Larks (Alaudidae), but the latter are 

 very poorly represented in America. Among 

 the Passerine families entirely confined to the 

 Old World we may mention the heterogeneous 

 assemblage of small birds, chiefly remarkable for 

 their short rounded wings, of which the most 

 typical are the Babbling Thrushes (Timeliidae), 

 the Hill Tits (Liotrichidae), the Green Bulbuls 

 (Phyllornithidae), the Bulbuls (Pycnonotidae), the 

 Orioles (Oriolidae), the Cuckoo Shrikes (Campe- 

 phagidae), the Drongo Shrikes (Dicruridae), the 

 Flycatchers (Muscicapidae), the Birds of Paradise 

 (Paradiseidae), the Honey-suckers (Meliphagidae), 

 the Sun-Birds (Nectariniidae), the Flower-peckers 

 (Dicaeidae), the Weaver Finches (Ploceidae), the 



