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grains and fruits. Their spiritual energies or capacities 

 are also more strongly developed. 



Order 3. Ancyliozooid Birds Dentirostres. 



3556. Bill with a notch; food consists of worms and 

 flesh. 



Fain. 7. Worm-Birds, Cantor es or Songsters. 



Bill tolerably long and straight ; eat worms and 

 berries. 



Fain. 8. Crustacean Birds, Fly -catchers. 



Bill straight, with sharp edges superiorly, point de- 

 curved or bent downwards. Their aliment consists of 

 insects, which they mostly snap at during flight Ely- 

 catchers, Shrikes, Swallows. 



Fam. 9. Ptilotoid Birds Eapaccs. 



Bill unciform ; seize upon the Sarcozoa with their 

 claws. 



B. SARCOSE BIRDS NESTFLUCHTER. 



3557. Run about soon after being hatched, and nourish 

 themselves. Bill and feet very varied, the former being 



mostly obtuse. 



These Birds do not fly much nor hop, but walk, run, 

 or swim. In them are found all the diversities of bill 

 and feet ; the latter are mostly placed far back, so that 

 the body is usually directed upwards. 



Their food also is very varied, consisting of seeds, 

 grass, fruits, worms, and flesh. 



Order 4. Sarcose Birds. 



3558. Neck long, i. e. much longer than the head 

 and bill, frequently longer than the body. 



Fam. 10. Fish-Birds, Natatores. 



Natatory feet short. 



Mostly large Birds, which live upon fishes, worms, 

 and many of them even upon herbs. Their bills are so 

 varied, that they could represent several families, a fact 

 which likewise speaks in favour of their higher position. 

 It may be regarded as an instructive hint, that animals 



