PERCHING OMNIVORA. 



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and Java, the birds of Paradise in the isles to the east, 

 and flycatchers more generally in the forests. 



White- crested Flatbill. 



To explain, or even to enumerate, all the varieties 

 in the bills of those omnivorous tribes, and the dif- 

 ferences of food and haunt which those indicate, 

 would be incompatible with the nature of a general 

 sketch ; but the subject once entered on, is one of 

 very easy study ; and there is scarcely any tribe, at 

 least of land birds, traces of resemblance to which 



