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(Motacilla) White Wagtail Yellow-Headed, Grey, Blue-Headed, and Cape Wagtails 



Pipits (Anthus)Tru& Pipit Meadow Pipit Richard's Pipit Tawny Pipit The 

 Creepers (Gerthiidce) Wall Creeper (Tichodroma) Australian Straight Claws (Or- 

 thonyx~)The Nuthatches (Sittidw)^}^ Honey-Eaters (Meliphagidce) Parson-Bird 

 (Prosthemadera) Stitch-Bird (Pogonornis) White-Eyes (Zosterops) The Sun-Birds 

 (Nectariniidw) Typical Group (NedanVim) The Honey- Peckers (Dicceidce)The. Tits 

 (Paridce) True Tits (Parus) Crested Tits (Lophophanes) Long- Tailed Tits (Acredula) 

 Bearded Tits (Pcwmrws) New Zealand Creepers (Gerthiparus) Allied Types The 

 Shrikes (Laniidce) Shrike Tits (Falcunculus) True Shrikes (Lanius) Great Grey, 

 Lesser Grey, Bed-Backed, Woodchat, Masked and Hooded Shrikes Miiiivets (Peri- 

 crocotus) Other Genera The Waxwings (Ampelidm) Cedar Bird, . . . 417 



CHAPTER V. PERCHING-BIRDS, continued. 



THE THRUSHES AND WARBLERS (Turdidce) True Thrushes (Turdus) Missel-Thrush Song- 

 Thrush Redwing Fieldfare Blackbirds(MerWa) Rock-Thrushes(Mow^'coZa) Blue- 

 Birds (Sialia) Chats (Saxicola) Wheatear Blackchat Whinchat Stonechat Fork- 

 Tails (Henicurus) Redstarts (Ruticilla) Black Redstart Blue-Throated Warbler 

 (Erythacus) Redbreast Rubythroat Nightingales New Zealand Robins (Miro) 

 Dhyal Birds (Gopsychus) Shamas (Gittocincla) Grey Warbler (Gerygone) True 

 Warblers (Sylvia) Whitethroats Subalpine, Spectacled, Sardinian, Orphean, and 

 Garden Warblers Blackcap Barred, Dartford, and Willow Warblers Icterine 

 Warbler (Hypolais) Reed Warblers (Acrocephalus) Grasshopper Warbler (Locustella) 

 River- Warbler Savi's Warbler Pheasant-Tailed Warbler (Stipiturus malacurus) 

 Cetti's Warbler (Bradypterus) Fan-Tailed Warblers (Gisticola) Accentors (Accentor) 

 Hedge-Sparrow Goldcrest (Reyulus) Firecrest Rubycrest The Wood Warblers 

 (Mniotiltidce) The Dippers (Cindidce) The Wrens (Troglodytid(e)Trne Wrens (Tro- 

 glodytes') Cactus -Wrens (Campylorhynchus)^^ Mocking - Birds (Mimidce) The 

 Babblers (Crateropodidce) Typical Babblers (Crateropus) Green Bulbuls (Chloropsis) 

 True Bulbuls (Pycnonotus) Liothrix The Flycatchers (Muscicapidce) True Fly- 

 catchers (Muscicapa) Spotted, Pied, White-Collared, and Red-Breasted Flycatchers 

 Paradise Flycatchers (Terpsiphone) Fantail- Fly catchers (Ehipidura) The Swallows 

 (Hirundinidw) True Swallows (Hirundo) Chimney and Red-Rumped Swallows 

 Martins (Chelidon) Sand-Martins (Cotile) Purple Martins (Progne\ . . 468 



CHAPTER VI. PERCHING-BIRDS, concluded. 



THE AMERICAN FLYCATCHERS (Tyrannidce) Tyrant Flycatchers (Tymnnus) Bienteveo 

 Tyrant Ant-Birds (Formicivora) The Chatterers (Cotingidce) Umbrella-Bird (Ceph- 

 alopterus) Bell -Birds (Chasmorhynchus) Cotingas (Cotinga) Manakins (Pipra) 

 Cocks of the Rock (Eupicola) The Plant-Cutters (Phytotomidce)T}iQ Broadbills 

 (Eurylcemidce)^^ Pittas (Pittidce) The Wood-Hewers (Dendrocolaptidce)0\en- 

 Birds (Furnarius) Spine-Tails (Synallaxis) The Lyre-Birds (Menuridce), . . 527 



CHAPTER VII. THE PICARIAN BIRDS, Order Picarice. 



GENERAL CHARACTERS OF THE ORDER The Jacamars (Galbulidv) True Jacamars 

 (Galbula) Broad-Billed Jacamars (Jacamerops) The Puff-Birds (Bucconidce) The 

 Woodpeckers (Picidce) Ground Woodpecker (Geocolaptes) Bright - Shafted Wood- 

 peckers (Colaptes) Golden- Winged, and Pampas Woodpeckers- -Green Woodpeckers 

 (Gecinus) Grey - Headed Woodpecker African Green Woodpeckers (Chloron- 

 erpes) Red - Headed Woodpeckers (Melanerpes) Sap - Suckers (Sphyropicus) Pied 

 Woodpeckers (Dendrocopus) Three-Toed Woodpeckers (Picoides) Crimson Headed 

 Bay Woodpecker (Lepocestes) Rufous Woodpeckers (Micropternus) Ivory - Billed 



