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Family 8. Iflru ndini Jos.— HwAhhowa (Fig. 49). 

 Bill short and flattened, much wider 

 than high at the butte ; no bristles at 

 the base of the bill ; wings long and 

 pointed, tips, when closed, generally 

 reaching beyond the end of the tail ; 

 lirst primary the longest ; outer tail- 

 feathers longest; feet small, tarsus 

 short, round in front, narrower and 

 bharpcr in the back, p. 318. 



Fio. 49. 



Family 9. Ampelid<x. — Waxwinos 

 ^Fig. 50). 

 Plumoge generally soft, brownish 

 gray or grayish brown; a black 

 band across the forehead and 

 tlirough the eyes ; tail tipped 

 with yellow; bill short, notched 

 at the tip; head conspicuously 

 crested, p. 323. 



Fio. 50. 



Family 10. Zanwrf*.— Shrikes (Fig. 51). 

 Grayish birds, 8'00-9-00 in length, most of the 

 tail-feathers tipped with white; bill hooked and 

 hawklike, p. 325. 



Family 11. Vireonidce. — Vireos (Fig. 52) 

 Small birds, 500- 

 7"00 in length, with 

 genernlly olive- 

 green l)acks ; tail- 

 feathers without 

 white spots ; bill 

 rather stout, higher 

 than broad at tiie 

 base, tiio tip of the uppjr nmiidlblo 

 notched and hooked, bristles at the 

 base of the bill barely evident ; tarsi 

 scaled, round in front, narrower and 

 sharper behind; toes united at the 

 base, p. 327. 



Family 12. MniotiUid<t.—Vfoo\y War- 

 blers (Fig. 53). 

 Small birds, length generally under 

 G-UO, but in four spttoics 6-50-7-50, 

 with, as a rule, brightly colored 





