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CONTENTS 



BIRDS 



CHAPTER I. — General Characteristic -. 



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Distinctive Characters of Birds — Skeleton — Skull — External Characters — Plumage — CI 



of Plumage — Eggs — Migration — Distribution — Classification, .... 289 



CHAPTER IL— Perching-Birds,— < >rder Pass< res. 



Characters as the < >rder. — The Crow Tribe (Corvida ) Ravens and < Irows (' 'orvus)— Rook — 

 Jackdaw — Nutcrackers (Nucifraga) — Magpies (Pica) — Azure- Winged Magpies (Cyano- 

 ■pica) — Blui- Magpies (Urocissa) [ndian Tree-Pies (Dendrocitta) — Jays (Garrulus)— 

 Siberian .l.i\ (Perisoreus)- Long-Crested Jay (Cyanocitta) [Jrraca Jay— (Cyanocorax) 

 — Struthidea — Piping Crows (Gymnorhina) —Choughs (Graculus)— Chough - Thrushes 

 (Podoces) — Huia-Bird (Heteralocha) — Bird- of Paradise (Paradiseida) Twelve-Wired 

 Bird of Paradise (Seleucides) — Allied Genera — Gorgcl Bird of Paradise (Astrapia) — 

 Wattled Bird of Paradise (Paradigalla) Typical Group (Paradisea) — King Paradise- 

 Bird (Cincinnurus) — Wilson's Bird of Paradise (Diphyllodes) Six-Plumed Bird of 

 Paradise (Parotid) Standard-Wing (Si miopti ra) — Superb Bird of Paradise ( Lophorhina) 

 — Bower-Birds (Ptilonorhynchidce) -Satin Bower-Bird (Ptilonorhynchus) Spotted 

 Bower-Bird (Chlamydodera) —Gardener Bower-Bird (Amblyornis) —Starlings (Sturnidce) 

 Typical Group (St urn us) — Rnsi- - Coloured Starling (Pastor) Other Genera— Ox- 



