KEY TO FAMILIES. LAND BIRDS. 



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Section 3. Upper mandible, not notched and hooked at tip. 



Part 1. First primary less than one half as long as third. 



Toes, four, two iu trout uud two behiud; or toes, three, two iu front and one behind; tail 

 feathers, stiff (ind pointed. (If tail feathers are not stiff and pointed, see Nuthatches, next 

 family.) Order PICI. Woodpeckers. Family PICID/E. Woodpeckers. 



See page 100. 



Bill, as ilhistrated; nostrils, concealed b_v bristly tufts; 

 tarsus, scnteliate ; first primary, very short; tail feathers, 

 not stiff and pointed. (If tail feathers are stitTand pointed, 

 look for the bird under Family Picidii?.) 

 Family PARID/E. 

 Subfamily SITTIN/E. Nuthatches. 

 See page 317. 



Bill, as illustrated; nostrils, concealed by bristly tufts of hair-like 

 feathers; first primary, short; forehead, black; back, gray: head, with 

 more or less crest ; sides of liody, washed with brown (Tufted Titmou-ie^ . 



Family PARID.-E. Titmice. 

 See page 818. 



First primary, about one half as long as 

 -: third; feet, zygodactyle (toes, two in front. 

 U two behiud) ; outer tail feathers, very much 

 B shorter than middle feathers. 



Family CUCULID/E. Cuckoos. 



See page ISS. 



