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fifteenth and sixteenth families. The next three families are 

 the MniotiltidcB or American Warblers, the true Creepers or 

 Certhiidce, and the Honey-eaters or Meliphagiclm ; while the 

 twentieth family is composed of the Sun-birds, Nectariniidm, so 

 apt to be confounded, popularly, with the Humming-birds. Next 

 come the Flower-peckers or Dicoddce, followed by the White- 

 eyes, Zosteropidm, and then the attractive families of Titmice ' 

 or Paridce, and Gold-crests, Regulidfr.. The twenty-fifth family 

 is that of the Shrikes, Laniidce ; after which comes the family 

 of Swallow-shrikes, sometimes called " Wood-swallows," Arta- 

 midce, which consists of only two genera. Then follows the 

 small family represented by our Waxwing ' (Ampelidw), followed 

 by the Greenlets or Vireonidw. The Warblej-s, Syhiidce, form 

 the twenty-ninth family, after which come the Thrushes or 

 Turdidce ^ (containing the Nightingale), followed by the Dip- 

 pers * or the Cinclidm, which seem to be modified aquatic Wrens 

 and far away, indeed, from the Kingfisher in their affinities. 

 Then come the Wrens ^ Troglodylidw, followed by the Mimidoe, 

 or Mocking-birds, and the Accentors or Accentoridce. Next 

 comes the thirty-fifth family, or the great family of Babblers, 

 TimeliidcB, followed by that of the Bulbuls ", Pycnonotidoe, that 

 of the Cuckoo-shrikes, Campophagidoe, and that of the Fly- 

 catchers', Muscicapidce. The thirty-ninth and last family of 

 the first section of Passeres is formed by the Martins and 

 Swallows ", or Eirundinidce. 



The second section of the suborder Passeres, the section 

 Mesomyodi, contains twelve families, which are separable into 

 divisions, distinguished as Oligomyodce, Tracheophonce, Atriehm, 

 and Menurce. 



In the first the lower end of the trachea is not modified to 

 form a vocal organ, but in the Tracheophonce it is so modified, 

 while in them the bronchi do not contribute to form it. 



The first of the twelve families, the fortieth of the suborder 

 of Passeres, is that of the Tyrant-birds ° or Tyrannidm ; then 

 comes a family of but three, as yet determined species, the 

 Sharp-bills or Oxyrhamphidce, followed by the Pipridm or 

 Manakins, which are small shy birds inhabiting South-American 

 woods, and consisting of about seventy species. After this 



