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ELEMENTS OF OENITHOIOGY. 



species. They are climbing birds, and many of them have 

 much the appearance of Creepers. A very handsome species 

 is Bridges's Woodhewer {Drymornis hridgesi). 



The Oven-bird (Farnarius albogularis, fig. 129), which is said 

 to burrow in the ground, is another example of a special section 

 of the group. 



Fig. 127. 



The Barred Woodhewer {Bendrocolaptes radiolatus). 



There is a pugnacious, irritable set of Birds exclusively con- 

 fined to the New World, and mainly to South America. The 

 King Tyrant-bird {Tyrannus earolinensis) may be taken, as a type 



