ENUMERATION OF ANIMALS 9 
I. BIRDS. 
11. PASSERES. (Thrushes, stone-chats and blue-birds, dippers, king- 
lets, titmice, nuthatches, creepers, wrens, larks, 
wagtails, warblers, tanagers, swallows, waxwings, 
greenlets, shrikes, finches, starlings, black-birds 
and orioles, crows and jays, fly-catcbers, and do- 
nesticated sparrow, canary, &c.) 
Useful products : 
- Foods, (thrushes, rice-birds, &c.) D. 1. 
Ornamental feathers. D. 23. 
Useful traits : 
Destroy insects. 
Song-birds, (generally susceptible of domestication.) 
12-13, PICARI ZA AND CUCULI. (Night-hawks, whippoorwills, swifts, 
humming-birds, trogons, saw-bills, 
kingfishers, cuckoos, woodpeck- 
ers.) A 
Useful products: Ornamental feathers, (humming-birds, tro 
gous.) D. 23. 
Useful traits: 
Destroy noxious insects, (night-hawks, swifts.) 
Destroy tree-borers, (woodpeckers.) 
Injurious traits: 
Destroy fish, (kingtishers.) 
Destroy birds’-eggs, (cuckoos.) 
Destroy fruit, (woodpeckers.) 
Destroy trees, (sap-sucker.) 
14, PSITTACI. (Parroquet and domesticated parrots.) 
Useful products: Ornamental feathers. D. 23. 
Useful traits: Susceptible of domestication. 
15. RAPTORES. (Owls, hawks, eagles, vultures, buzzards.) 
Useful products: 
Ornamental feathers. D. 23. 
Quills. D. 22. 
Useful traits : 
Susceptible of domestication and use in hunting.! 
1 Nine species of falcons, hawks, and owls have been employed in the chase by 
Europeans. 
