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THE ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT. 
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they capture when flying. The Tyrants of North and South America 
pursue and catch small birds as well as insects. One of the most 
curious is the King Tody of South America, with a finely coloured 
and peculiar radiated crest on its head. Cases 58, 59. The Chatterers: 
many of these are of beautiful plumage and feed on berries and insects ; 
remarkable among them is the white Chatterer, called the Campanero, 
or Bell-bird, from its note at mid-day in the American forests resem- 
bling the convent bell. Case 59-61. Shrikes and Butcher birds : 
many of these impale insects and small birds on thorns, and hence 
their name ; some of the Drongos, or Indian forked-tailed Shrikes, 
have great powers of song. 
Cases 62-73. The Conirostral Passerine Birds feed chiefly on grain 
and fruit, but may be called omnivorous. The Crows and Jays ; the 
curious bare-necked Grakles of South America ; the gorgeous Birds of 
Paradise from New Guinea and the adjoining islands, to which they 
prove a considerable source of revenue. Selections of the finest spe- 
cimens of the Birds of Paradise have separate glazed cases allotted to 
them. Case 65. The metallic-plumed shining Thrushes; the satin 
Bower Bird of Australia forms a bower of twigs, which it adorns with 
feathers and strews with bones and stones, and uses it as a place to 
play in. The Oxpeckers of Africa with their strong beaks pick grubs 
out of the skin of oxen and other beasts. 
Case 67. The yellow and black Orioles, some of which, like the 
Cuckoos and Cowpen Bunting of North America, lay their eggs in the 
nests of other birds. Case 68. The Weavers of Africa and Asia, so named 
from the elegant nests they weave with dried grasses : some of these 
live in great colonies with the nests under one great cover ; the Gros- 
beaks, particularly the thick-billed Ground-sparrow of the Galapagos ; 
the Tanagers of the New World, remarkable for the gay plumage of the 
males; the Finches and Buntings, living chiefly on seeds; the Larks, 
which sing when fluttering in the air ; the Crossbills, with the points of 
the beak crossing each other and giving them great power in tearing 
pine-cones to pieces to get at the seeds ; the Colies of Africa and 
India, which sleep in companies, suspended by one foot ; the African 
Plantain-eaters. Cases 72, 73. The Hornbills, with their enormous 
beaks : the females when incubating are imprisoned in the nest and 
fed by the male. Cases 74-83. The Scansorial Birds, powerful grasp- 
ers from the arrangement of the toes, two before and two behind ; 
they chiefly live on fruit ; the long-tailed Brazilian Maccaws with their 
naked cheeks ; the Australian Parakeets ; the Cockatoos ; the New 
Zealand Strigops with its owl-like aspect ; and the red and blue Lories 
of the Indian Archipelago. 
Case 77. The Toucans of the New World, with large beaks ; one of 
the most curious is the curl -crested species. Cases 78-80. The 
W oodpeckers, with their wedge-shaped beaks and bristly-pointed tails ; 
they live on insects and larvas, which they extract from trees, by peck- 
ing with their strong chisel-like beaks, and then insinuating their long 
extensile tongues. The species are most numerous in America and 
Asia. Cases 81-83. The Cuckoos. Many of these deposit their 
