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Garden "Warblers — Blackcap — Barred, Dartford, and "Willow Warblers— Icterine 

 "Warbler (Hypolais) — Reed Warblers (Acrocephalus) — Grasshopper Warbler (Locustella) 

 — River-Warbler — Savi's Warbler — Pheasant-Tailed Warbler (Stiptiuru&malacwrus) — 

 Cetti's Warbler (Bradypterus) — Fan-Tailed Warblers (Cisticola) — Accentors (Accentor) — 

 * Hedge-Sparrow — Goldcrest (Regulus) — Firecrest — Rubycrest — The Wood Warblers 

 (Mniotiltidce) — The Dippers (Ginclidce) — The Wrens (Troglodytidce) — True Wrens (Tro- 

 glodytes) — Cactus- Wrens (Campy iorhynchus)— The Mocking - Birds (Mimidee) — The 

 Babblers (C rater opodid(e) — Typical Babblers (Crateropus) — Green Bulbuls (Chloropsis) — 

 True Bulbuls (Pycnonotus) — Liothrix — The Flycatchers (Muscicapidce) — True Fly- 

 catchers (Muscicapa) — Spotted, Pied, White-Collared, and Red-Breasted Flycatchers — 

 Paradise Flycatchers (Terpsiphone) — Fantail- Flycatchers (Rhipidura) — The Swallows 

 (Hirundiiiidw) — True Swallows (Hirundo) — Chimney and Red-Rumped Swallows — 

 Martins (Chelidon) — Sand-Martins (Cotile) — Purple Martins (Progne), . . . 468 



CHAPTER VI. — Perching-Birds, — concluded. 



The American Flycatchers (Tyrannicke) — Tyrant Flycatchers (Tyrannus) — Bienteveo 

 Tyrant — Ant-Birds (B'ormicivora)— The Chatterers (Cotingidae)— Umbrella-Bird (Ceph- 

 alopterus) — Bell- Birds (Chasmorhy7ichus) — Cotingas (Cotinga) — Manakins (Pipra) — 

 Cocks of the Rock (Rupicola) — The Plant-Cutters (Phytotomida;) — The Broadbills 

 (Eurybemidce) — The Pittas (Pittida>) — The Wood-Hewers (Dendrocolaptidce) — Oven- 

 Birds (Furnarius) — Spine-Tails (Synallaxis)— The Lyre-Birds (Menurida>), . . 527 



CHAPTER VII.— The Picarian Birds— Order Picarice. 



General Characters of the Order — The Jacamars (Galbulidce) — True Jacamars 

 (Galbula) — Broad-Billed Jacamars (Jacamerops) — The Puff-Birds (Bucconidaz) — The 

 Woodpeckers (Picidce) — Ground Woodpecker (Gcocolaptes) — Bright - Shafted Wood- 

 peckers (Colaptes) — Golden-Winged, and Pampas Woodpeckers- Green Woodpeckers 

 (Gecinus) — Grey - Headed Woodpecker — African Green Woodpeckers (Chloron- 

 erpes) — Red - Headed Woodpeckers (Melanerpes) — Sap - Suckers (Sph yropieus) — Pied 

 Woodpeckers (Deudrocopus) — Three-Toed Woodpeckers (Picoides) — Crimson-Headed 

 Bay Woodpecker (Ijepocestes) — Rufous Woodpeckers (Micropternus) — Ivory -Billed 

 W T oodpeckers (Herailophus) — Great Black Woodpecker (Picus) — Piculets (Picwmnus) - 

 Rufous Piculets (Sasia) — The Wrynecks (Iyngidce) — The Honey-Guides (Indicaiorida ) 

 — The Barbets (Capitonidce) — Tooth-Billed Barbets (Pogonwlvynchus) — Tinker Barbets 

 (Barbatula) — Brown Barbets (Colorhamphus) — Great Barbets (Megalcema) — Crimson- 

 Headed Barbet (Xantholwma) — The Toucans (Rhamphastidce) — Toco Toucan (Rham- 

 £>/<.«$<«;;)— Aracari Toucans (Pteroglossus), ...... 515 



Ixdex, ............ 577 



ERRATA 



PACE 



343. Line 7 from foot, for " five " read " nine." 



350. The superb glossy starling (Lamprocolius superbus), figured on this page, is a native of Easl 



Africa, and is easily recognised by tin- white band across the chesl ; tin' mantle being Bteelj 

 green, and the upper part of the head and neck black. 



351. Line 11 from foot, for "later on'' read "p. 347"; line 4 from foot, for "Eulabetes" read 



" Eulabes." 

 3fi3. Line 10 from foot, for " A leucocephala " read " Dinemellia b ucocephala." 

 364. First line, after "the " add " typical representative of a." 

 376. Transpose numbers 4 and 5 in Plate. 



