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SECTION 2. Upper mandible, with distinct notch and hook at tip, 

 but feet, not armed with talons. 



Toes, four, zygodactyle (two in front, two behind ) ; bill, with 

 cere (skin-like covering over base of bill ) . 



Family PSITTACID^. Parrots and Paroquets. 



See page 160. 



Bill, strong, notched near the end, and decidedly 

 hooked; tarsus, scutellate; tail, rounded. But two 

 species occur with us, both grayish birds with blackish 

 wings and tail, and a dark stripe through the eye. 



Family LANIID^. Shrikes. 

 See page 226. 



Bill, flattened and wide at base; tip, with small hook; numerous 

 black bristles at base of bill; back of tarsus, rounded; wings, longer 

 than tail; first primary, not very short, usually longer than the sixth. 



FIvcatcher. 



Family TYRANNID^. Flycatchers. 



See page 170. 



