CHAPTER VI. 



THE SWALLOWS AND SWIFTS. 



WE have done with the Birds of Prey now, and 

 come to 

 Cuvier ' s 

 second 

 order, 

 ?'?., the 

 Insessores 

 or Perch- 

 ing Birds, 

 which in- 

 elude s 

 more than 

 two-thirds 

 of all crea- 

 tures that 

 go clad in 

 feathers. 

 All "com- 

 mon or 

 ga rde n" 

 birds be- 

 long to 

 this order; 

 fowls and House Swift and red-backed Swallow. 



turkeys and ducks and waterfowl are excluded 

 from it. Jerdon divides it into certain Tribes 

 according to the form of the beak, Each Tribe 



