INTEODUCTION. 



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Sedge Warblers and the Wood Wren are also contained. It 

 embraces about two hundred and ninety species. They are all 

 dull-coloured Birds inhabiting the Old World, having their head- 

 quarters in the countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. 

 But there are a number of other Birds, also called Warblers, 



Fig. 113. 







The Blackcap {Sylvia atricapilla). 



but distinguished as " American Warblers " (Mniotiltidce), of 

 which there are some hundred and thirty-seven kinds. 



The songster whose note is the most familiar to the inhabi- 

 tants of these islands is, perhaps, the Thrush (Turdus mvsieus), 

 and it is the type of a large cosmopolitan family of Birds num- 

 bering fully three hundred and forty-four species. Amongst 



