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noisy Birds, dwelling in forests, and remarkable for their 

 brilliant* coloration. Tbey feed on insects, snails, slugs, and 

 other small creatures. 



Certain birds are known as American Ant-thrushes, and 

 they have much the habit of Butcher-birds. They rarely de- 

 scend to the ground, and are yery noisy. The Brazilian Ant- 

 thrush (Formioarius erissaUs) may stand as a type of the group, 

 which contains some two hundred and fifty-four species. 



Fig. 119. 



The Barred Wagtail (Motacilla luguhris). 



The "Wagtail, or lD\&\iw&sh.ev(JMotacilla luguhris), is a type of 

 an almost exclusively Old- World group of Birds — Wagtails or 

 Pipits — consisting of about sixty-four species, one section of 

 ' which is very like our Wagtail, while another resembles our 

 Meadow Pipit (AntTvug prdtensis), which is to be seen on com- 

 mons and waste grounds all the year round. 



The Common Starling (Stumus vulgaris), with which ahnost 

 all our readers must be familiar, is a convenient example of 



