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head, in most species, bare of feathers, and cover- 
ed in front by a naked skin; tongue fleshy and 
generally bifid ; neck retractile ; feet strong with 
moderately crooked claws. 
Fatco, (hawk, buzzard, kite, eagle,) beak 
hooked, furnished at the base with a cere; head 
well covered with feathers ; tongue, in met pS 
cies, bifid. 
SERPENTARIUS, (snake-eater,) beak vulturine : 
tongue pointed : legs very long. 
STR1x, (owl,) bill hooked, ‘without cere ; ; nos- 
trils oblong, covered with recumbent setaceous 
feathers ; head, eyes, and ears, large; tongue 
bifid ; exterior toe moveable backward and for- 
ward. 
ORDER II. PASSERES. 
Including all birds, which are not swimmers, 
waders, runners, climbers, birds of prey, or of the 
gallinaceous kind. They are all of the sparrow- 
hike family. 
Section A. Bills indented. 
Lanuus, (shrike, butcher-bird,) bill straightish, 
with a tooth or small process on each side near 
the tip; tongue Jagged ; outside toe connected to 
the middle one, as far as the first joint. 
Tanacra, (tanager,) bill conic, pointed, notch- 
ed, almost triangular at the base, a little inclining 
at the tip. 
Muscicaea, (fiy-catcher, cat-bird,) bill nearly 
triangular, notched each side, bent in at the tip, 
and beset with bristles at the root ; toes (mostly) 
divided to their origin. 
AmpPE is, (chatterer,) bill straight, convex 5; 
each mandible notched ; nostrils covered with 
