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NATURAL HISTORY. 



cry. These birds range over Africa, Asia, and the Pa- 

 cific Ocean. In the Hawaian Islands their feathers are 

 highly esteemed as ornaments of head-dresses, and com- 

 mand a high price. 



263. The Honeysuckers are an aberrant family pecul- 

 iar to Australia and 

 the neighboring isl- 

 ands. The Hoopoes 

 are a still more aber- 

 rant family. The Eu- 

 ropean Hoopoe, Fig. 

 131, with its crest, 

 which it can raise or 

 depress at pleasure, 

 is a very beautiful 

 bird. It is quite 

 abundant in France. 

 The Creepers are still 

 another aberrant 

 family, some species 

 of which verge to- 

 ward the Perjchers, 

 especially the War- 

 bler family, and others toward the next order to be con- 

 fddered, the Scansores. The common Creeper of Europe, 



Fig. 132. Creeper. 



