CLASSIFICATION 



Birds may roughly be classed as land birds and 

 water birds, but there are many that can hardly be 

 included properly in either category ; it is still less 

 possible to divide them by their dwelling-places, as 

 those of the woods, fields, shore, and so forth ; we 

 require some formal classification into " Families " 

 under the larger groups called " Orders," though it is 

 clear that no linear arrangement can be entirely 

 satisfactory, or will shew all the relations between the 

 members of the " class " Aves. We will therefore give 

 here the scheme used in the following pages, which is 

 almost the same as that in Howard Saunders' Mamial 

 of British Birds. The nomenclature is almost exactly 

 that of the new List of the British Ornithologists' Union. 



AVES CARINAT.E 

 ORDER I. PASSBRBS 



Family TTJBDID^ Family ORIOLID.E 



Subfamily Turdince Family LANHDJE 



Subfamily SylviincK Family AMPEUD^J 



Subfamily Accentorince Family MUSCICAPIDJE 



Family CENCLIDJE Family HIRUNDINID^J 



Family PANURIDJE Family FRINGIIXID^J 

 Family PARID^E Subfamily Fringillince 



Family REGULID^J Subfamily Emberizince 



Family SITTID^ Family STURNIDJE 



Family TROGLODYTID^J Family CORVIDJS 



Family CERTBUDJE Family ALAUDID^E 

 Family MOTACILLIDJE 



