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curred all over the United States and Mexico. It 

 was first taken to Europe in 1524, was domesticated 

 there, and now occupies much of its former habitat 

 as a domesticated fowl. On- the top shelf at the left 

 are the Columbinse, or pigeons and doves. On the 

 top shelves on the right are birds of the order Cypse- 

 lomorphee, the swifts, goat-suckers, and the midget- 

 like humming birds. Here are the night hawk and 

 the whippoorwill, noted for its characteristic night 

 cry. 



Perchers. — The next case contains several hundred 

 of the little birds that make up a large part of bird 

 life of the average landscape. They are the birds of 

 our gardens, fields, and woods, which give an undertone 

 of melody to the roadsides and fences. These are the 

 Passers or perching birds. Here are the sparrows, a 

 single family that comprises about one-seventh of all 

 the species of birds in the United States; here are 

 warblers, the chickadees, the wrens, the creepers and 

 nutthaches, the vireos and shrikes } the wax- wings 

 and swallows, the tanagers and orioles, the crows 

 and blackbirds and jays, the fly-catchers, the cour- 

 ageous king-bird, the pewees, and the water-loving 

 phcebe. 



Woodpeckers. — The small case directly in front con- 

 tains the woodpeckers belonging to the order Picarise. 



