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CHAPTEE XL 



Subulirostres, Awl-sliaped Bills. — Manakins. —Curious Nests of. — Tom- 

 tits. — Wagtails. — Redstarts. — Robins, &c. — Migration of this Tribe. — 

 Nightingales. — Whether they return to same Nests. — Ear for Music. 

 — Night Singing-birds. — Planirostres, Flatbilled. — Swallow Tribe. — 

 Whether occasionally Dormant, Instances of. — Migration of. — Insects, 

 Number devoured by Swallows. — Spiders, high flights of. — Curious 

 Nests of Swallows. — Courage of. 



Table XI. Order 2. Passerine. 



Of the four genera included in this tribe, three are common in 

 England, but the fourth, that of the Pipras or Manakins, is 

 entirely foreign, comprising a number of little birds of beau- 

 tiful plumage. Some of these species are exceptions to the 

 general rule of classification, as the upper mandible, on ex- 

 amination, will be found, as in the Manakins, notched ; in 

 other respects the beak has a tolerably marked character, being 

 short and usually feeble and flexible, and, as the word subuli- 





The Lark. 



rostrum implies, awl-shaped, from a Latin word subula, signi- 

 fying an awl, and rostrum, a beak. 



Under the second genus are comprehended the various 

 species o*f Titmouse. Under the third, the Wagtails, Wrens, 



