PASSEHES. 



71. AMPELIS. Secondaries plain. A. carnifex. 



Bill destitute of a hook at the end. The notch is less 

 distinct than in the preceding division 

 1. Bill compressed. 

 Nostrils remarkably large. 



72. PHTLEDON. Nostrils covered with a cartilaginous 

 scale. Bill slightly bent. Tongue ending in a pencil of 

 hairs. Merops molluccensis. 



73. MENURA. Nostrils without scale, and covered with 

 feathers. M. vulgaris. 



Nostrils common. 



A naked space above the eye. 



74. GIIACULA. A belt of downy feathers at the base of 

 the bill. Paradisea tristis. 



Above the eyes feathered. 



Nostrils thickly covered with feathers. 



75. PYRRHOCORAX. The habit of the crow. Corvus 

 PyrrJiocorax. 



Nostrils naked, or covered with hair. 

 Tail long. 



76. TURDUS. Thrush. Bill slightly arched. 



77. ORIOLUS. Bill stronger, and the legs shorter, than 

 in the thrush. 



Tail short. 



78. MYOTHERA. With the bill of the thrush. It has 

 longer limbs. Turdus cyanurus. 



79. CINCLUS. Dipper. Beak straight. Mandibles 

 equal. C. vulgaris. This bird is able to sink to the bot- 

 tom of the water in pools, and walk thereon, like the hip- 

 popotamus among quadrupeds. 



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