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the Alcedinidte (KINGFISHER), and Bucerotidaz (HORNBILL). The 

 Coliidze are small birds, with a rather Finch-like bill, a more or less 

 crested head, a very long tail, and are generally of a dun or slate- 

 coloured plumage that sometimes brightens into blue or is pleasingly 

 diversified with white or chestnut. They feed almost wholly on 

 fruits, but occasionally take insects, in quest of which they pass in 

 bands of fifteen or twenty from tree to tree, and hang in all 



MOUSE-BIRD. (Partly after Mitchell.) 



attitudes from the branches as they feed. It is even said that they 

 sleep suspended by their powerful and versatile toes. Ten species 

 are recognized by Dr. Sharpe (Cat. B. Br. Mus. xvii. pp. 338-346, 

 and 500), all belonging to the Ethiopian Kegion (of which the 

 Family is one of the most characteristic), and ranging from 

 Abyssinia southwards. Three species inhabit the Cape Colony. 



MUGGY, possibly cognate with the latter part of Grasmiicke 

 (Grass-Midge), the common German name of the WHITETHROAT, 

 and allied birds ; but perhaps only a corruption of MEGGY. 



MULLET-HAWK, a name for the OSPREY. 



MUMKUFFIN, said to be a local name of the Long-tailed TIT- 

 MOUSE. 



MUNIA, the general name in many parts of India for several 

 kinds of small seed-eating birds, commonly placed in the Family 



