224 ANIMAL FORMS 
differ widely, but in every case the young are helpless at 
the time of hatching, and require the care of the parents. 
The perchers constitute the greater number of the birds 
living in the meadows and woods, and are more or less 
Fie. 128,—Anna hummer ( Calypte anna) on nest. 
common, and consequently familiar everywhere. Among 
the families into which the order is divided that of the fly- 
catchers (Tyrannide), the crows and jays (Corvide), the 
orioles and blackbirds (Jcteride), the finches and sparrows 
(Fringtllide), the swallows (Hirundinide), the warblers 
(Mniotiltide), the thrushes, robins, and bluebirds ( Turdida@), 
are the more familiar, though the others are equally inter- 
esting. 
