CHAPTER II. 



SUBULIROSTRES ; AWL-SHAPED BILLS. MANAKINS ; "CURIOUS 



NESTS OF. TOMTITS. WAGTAILS. REDSTARTS. ROBINS, 



&C. MIGRATION OF THIS TRIBE. NIGHTINGALES. WHE- 

 THER THEY RETURN TO SAME NESTS. EAR FOR MUSIC. 



NIGHT SINGING-BIRDS. PLANIROSTRES ; FLAT-BILLED. 



SWALLOW TRIBE. WHETHER OCCASIONALLY DORMANT ; IN- 

 STANCES OF. MIGRATION OF. INSECTS, NUMBER DEVOURED 



BY SWALLOWS. SPIDERS, HIGH FLIGHTS OF. CURIOUS NESTS 



OF SWALLOWS. COURAGE OF. 



TABLE XI. Order 2. PASSERINE. 



OF the four genera included in this tribe, three are 

 common in England, but the fourth, that of the 

 Pipras or Manakins, is entirely foreign, comprising 

 a number of little birds of beautiful plumage. Some 

 of these species are exceptions to the general rule 

 of classification, as the upper mandible, on exami- 

 nation, will be found, as in the Manakins, notched ; 

 in other respects, the beak has a tolerably marked 

 character, being short and usually feeble and flexible; 

 and, as the word subulirostrum implies, awl-shaped, 

 from a Latin word, siibula^ signifying an awl, and 

 rostmm^ a beak. 



Under the second genus, Parus, are comprehended 

 the various species of Titmouse. Under the third, 

 Motacilla, the Wagtails, Wrens, Robins, and a large 

 family of singing-birds, usually separated from the 

 rest, under the term Sylvias or Warblers; at the head 

 of which stands the Nightingale. Under the fourth, 

 the AlaudcE, or Larks. The Tomtits are familiar 



