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Characteristics of Orders 4 



ORDER I.— RAPTORES, ROBBERS. 



Family Falconidae, Falcons 7 



Sub-Family Falconinas, Falcons proper 7 



Accipitrinse, Hawks 22 



Buteoninae, Buzzard-Hawks 3i 



Aquilinse, Eagles 49 



Family Strigidae, Owls 60 



Sub-Family Buboninae, Homed Owls 60 



S}Tninae, Gray Owls 71 



Nycteininse, Day Owls 77 



ORDER n. — SCAXSORES, CLEMBERS. 



Family Cuculidte, Cuckoos 83 



Picidas, Woodpeckers 87 



ORDER m. — IN'SESSORES, PERCHERS. 



Sub-Order Strisores 110 



Family Trochilidse, Humming-Birds 110 



Cypselidae, Swifts 116 



Caprimulgidse, Goat-Suckers 119 



Sub-Oi'der Clamatores, Screamers 125 



Family Alcedinidse, Kingfishers 1 25 



Colopteridfe, Flycatchers 128 



Sub-Fandly T_\Tannina2, Tyrant Flycatchers 128 



Sub-Order Oscines, Singers 



Family Turdidae, Thrushes 145 



Sub-Family Miminae, Mocking-Birds 163 



Family Saxicolidae, Eock-Inhabiters 175 



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