SYNOPSIS OF ORDERS AND FAMILIES. 
EVENING GROSBEAK. CARDINAL 
Family 53. FINCHES, SPARROWS, ETC. FRINGILLIDA. 
Bill short, stout, conical; third or fourth primaries longest; first about half an inch: 
shorter; the majority are small’birds and but few are over eight inches in length. 
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SUMMER TANAGER. 
Family 54. TANAGERS. TANAGRIDA. 
Bill somewhat finch-like but more swollen in outline; the upper mandible, in typical. 
forms, toothed or dentate. _ 
TREE SWALLOW. 
Family 55. SWALLOWS. HIRUNDINIDA. 
Bill short, broad and flat; feet smail and weak: wings long and narrow; tail notched 
and sometimes forked; birds of the air, feeding while on the wing. 
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