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CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS. 



Fifteenth Group— Thrushes — {Turd/)— Two Families. 

 i. Wood Thrushes — Turdus. 

 2. Merles — Merula. 



-Three Families. 



Sixteenth Group — Mocking Thrushes — (Mimi) 



i. Mocking Thrushes — Mimus. 



2. Red Mockers — Taxostoma. 



3. Cry Mockers — Galeoscoptes. 



Seventeenth Group— Bustle Thrushes — (Tim a lies)— Four Fami- 

 lies. 



1. Gray Thrushes — Pycnonotus. 



2. Tattling Thrushes — Timalia. 



3. Thrushlings — Crater of us. 



4. Laughing Thrushes — Garrulax. 



Eighteenth Group — Water Thrushes — (Cincli) — One Family. 

 1. Water Ouzels — Cinclus. 



Nineteenth Group — Pomp Thrushes — (Pittce) — One Family. 

 1. Pittas — Pitta. 



Twentieth Group — Ant Thrushes) — Myiothercz) — Three Families. 



1. Ant Birds — Pyriglena. 



2. Ant Kings — Grallaria. 



3. Rail Slippers — Ptero-ptochus. 



Twenty first Group — Lyre-tails — (Menurce) — One Family. 

 1. Lyre-tails — Menura. 



Twenty-second Group — Grassmonks, Hedge Sparrows — (Sylvia) 

 — Two Families. 



1 . Grassmonks — Curruca. 



2. Bush Singers — Pyrophthahna. 



Twenty-third Group — Leaf Singers — (Phylloscopi) — Three Fam- 

 ilies. 



1. Leaf Singers — Phyllopneuste. 



2. Leaf Kings — Reguloides. 



3. Bastard Nightingales — Hypolais. 



Twenty-fourth Group — Bullrush Singers — (Calamodytce) — Three 



Families. 



1. Reed Singers — Acrocephalus. 



2. Bullrush Singers — C alamo dus. 



3. Cricket Singers — Locustella. 



Twenty-fifth Group — Bush Singers — (Drymoicce) — Three Fam- 

 ilies. 



1. Reed-grass Singers — Cisticola. 



2. Taylor-birds — Ortothomus. 



3. Emu Slippers — Stipiturus. 



Twenty-sixth Group — Slippers, Wrens — (TrogloditcB) — Three 



Families. 



1. Wren Slippers — Troglodytes. 



2. Rush Slippers — Thryothorus. 



3. Flageolet-birds — Cyphorhinus. 



Twenty -seventh Group — Pipers — (Ant hi) — Three Families. 



1. Pipers — Anthus. 



2. Field Pipers — Agrodro?na, 



3. Stilt Pipers — Corydalla. 



Twenty-eighth Group — Stilts, Wag-tails — (Motacillce) Five 



Families. 



1. Stilts — Motacilla. 



2. Water Stilts — Calobates. 



3. Sheep Stilts — Budytes. 



4. Wood Stilts — Nemoricola. 



5. Swallow r Stilts — Enicurus. 



Twenty-ninth Group — Flue Birds — (Accentores) — Two Families. 



1. Wood Flue Birds — Tharrhaleus. 



2. Flue Larks — Accentor. 



Thirtieth Group — Titmice — (Pari) — Six Families. 



1. Golden Crowns — Regulus. 



2. Marsh Tits — Aegithalus. 



3. Reed Tits — Panurus. 



4. Tail Tits — Orites. 



5. Tit Kings — Lophophanes. 



6. Wood Tits — Parus. 



THIRD CLASS. 

 SEARCHERS — Investigator es) — Three Orders. 



SEVENTH ORDER. 



Climbing Birds — (Scansores) — Seventeen Groups. 



First Group — Flower Birds — (Certhiolce) — Two Families. 



1. Bluebirds — Ccereba. 



2. Pit-pits — Certhiola. 



Second Group — Honey Suckers — (Nectarinice) — Three Families. 



1. Honey Suckers — Hedydipna. 



2. Fire Honey Suckers — Aethopyga. 



3. Flower Gleaners — Cyrtostomus. 



Third Group — Plantain Runners — (Arachnotherce) — Two Fam- 

 ilies. 



1. Half Bills — Hemignathus. 



2. Hang Birds — Arachnocestra. 



Fourth Group — Brush Tongues — (Meliphagce) — Four Families. 



1. Honey Eaters — Myzomela. 



2. Ear Tufts— Ptilotis. 



3. Flower Tongues — Melichccra. 



4. Monk Birds — Tropidorhynchus. 



Fifth Group — Hoopoes — (Upupce) — Two Families. 



1. Hoopoes — Upupa. 



2. Tree Hoopoes — Irrisor. 



Sixth Group — Tree Mounters — (Anabatcz) — One Family. 

 1. Bunch Nestlers — Phacellodomus. 



Seventh Group- — (Potter Birds — (Furnarii) — Three Families. 



1. Oven Birds — Furnarius. 



2. Ground Mud-wall Makers — Geositta. 

 3* Mount Bills — Xenops. 



Eighth 6V<?a^>— Nuthatches — (Sittce) — Two Families. 



1. Nuthatches — Sitta. 



2. Tree Cleavers — Sittella. 



Ninth Group — Wall Climbers — (TichodromcB) — One Family. 

 1. Alps Wall Climbers — Tichodroma. 



