SYNOPSIS OF ORDERS AND FAMILIES. 
CEDAR WAXWING. 
Family 56. WAXWINGS. AMPELIDA. 
Bill short, stout, and rounded, its tip notched; wings rather long; head crested. 
NORTHERN SHRIKE. 
Family 57. SHRIKES. LANIID. Bill stout, its mandible hooked and hawklike; 
feet truly Passerine; pose, in perching, erect; solitary grayish birds. 
RED-EYED VIREO. 
Family 58. VIREOS. VIREONIDA. 
Bill small but distinctly hooked; outer primary usually very small and sometimes 
apparently wanting; olive-green gleaners among the leaves. 
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