THE 
GENERA  OF  BIRDS. 
COMPRISING 
THEIR  GENERIC  CHARACTERS, 
A    NOTICE    OF    THE    HABITS    OF    EACH  GENUS, 
AND 
AN  EXTENSIVE  LIST  OF  SPECIES 
REFERRED  TO  THEIR  SEVERAL  GENERA. 
BY 
GEORGE  ROBERT  GRAY,  F.L.S. 
SKNIOR  ASSISTANT  OF  THE  NATURAL  HISTORY  DEPARTMENT  IN  THE  BRITISH  MUSEUM  ; 
CORRESPONDING   MEMBER  OF  THE  ROYAL  ACADEMY  OF  SCIENCES  OF  TURIN;    OF  THE  IMPERIAL  AND  ROYAL  ACADEMY  OF  GEORGOFIL1  OF  FLORENCE; 
Ol     CHE   ROYAL  SOCIETY  OF  AGRICULTURE,  NATURAL  HISTORY',  AND  USEFUL  ARTS  OF  LYON;  OF  THE  SOCIETY  OF  THE  MUSEUM  OF  NATURAL  HISTORY  OF  STRASBOURG 
OF    THE    LINN.EAN    SOCIETY    OF    LY'ON  ;    OF    THE    ACADEMY"    OF    NATURAL    SCIENCES    OF    PHILADELPHIA,    IT.  S.  ; 
HONORARY  MEMBER  OF  THE  NATURAL  HISTORY"  SOCIETY  OF  HESSE  DARMSTADT  ;    ETC.  ETC. 
AUTHOR  OF 
"  A     LIST     OF     THE     GENERA     OF     BIRDS,"     SEVERAL     ENTOMOLOGICAL     PUBLICATIONS,  F.TC. 
ILLUSTRATED  BY 
DAVID  WILLIAM  MITCHELL,   B.A.  F.L.S. 
SECRETARY  TO  THE  ZOOLOGICAL  SOCIETY  OE  LONDON; 
HONORARY   MEMBER   OF  THE   ROYAL  ZOOLOGICAL  SOCIETY  OF   AMSTERDAM,    \\l>  OX 
SEVERAL  LEARNED  SOCIETIES. 
IX  THREE  VOLUMES. 
VOL.  III. 
1844-1849. 
LONDON: 
LONGMAN,  BROWN,  GREEN,  AND  LONGMANS, 
PATERNOSTER-ROW. 
1849. 
