CONTENTS. 



Characteristics of Orders . . . ., 4 



ORDER 1.— RAPTORES, ROBBERS. 



Family Falconidse, Falcons 7 



Sub-Family Falconinse, Falcons proper 7 



Accipitrinae, Hawks 22 



Buteoninse, Buzzard-Hawks 34 



Aquilinse, Eagles 49 



Family Strigidae, Owls 60 



Sub-Family Buboninae, Homed Owls 60 



Syrninae, Gray Owls 71 



Nycteininae, Day Owls 77 



ORDER n. — SCANSORES, CLBIBERS. 



Family Cuculidae, Cuckoos * 83 



Picidae, Woodpeckers 87 



ORDER m. — INSESSORES, PERCHERS. 



Sub-Order Strisores 110 



Family Trochilidae, Humming-Birds 110 



Cypselidse, Swifts 116 



Caprimulgidae, Goat-Suckers 119 



Sub-Order Clamatores, Screamers 125 



Family Alcedinidse, Eangfishers 125 



Colopteridae, Flycatchers 128 



Sub-Family Tyranninae, Tyrant Flycatchers 128 



Sub-Order Oscines, Singers 



Family Turdidae, Thrushes 145 



Sub-Family Miminae, Mocking-Birds 163 



Family Saxicolidae, Rock-Inhabiters 175 



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