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tufted-necked and racquet-tailed Humming-birds. The beak in some 
of the species is of enormous length, in most it is straight or bent 
down, in a few it is turned up. Their food consists of minute insects 
and the h&Mj of flowers. The} 7 fly with a humming noise, and never 
settle on the ground. 
Case 45. The Honey-eaters, peculiar to Australia and New Zealand. 
They have curiously-feathered tongues, which assist them in sipping 
their food. Cases 46, 47. The Creepers, Nuthatches, and Wrens, most 
of which can creep up and down trees, their long hind claws taking a 
firm grasp of any inequality in the bark. The Nuthatches have great 
strength in the beak, in this respect resembling Woodpeckers, and, 
like them, tapping on trees. Cases 48-61. The tooth-billed Passerine 
Birds feed chiefly on insects and grubs. Case 48. The Tailor-birds, 
forming curious nests of leaves, which they stitch together > the superb 
warblers and Emu Wren of Australia, and the Lyre-bird or Alsenura 
of Australia, the largest of song birds. Case 49. The Warblers, 
birds of plain plumage, but famed for their agreeable song ; the Black- 
cap and Nightingale are placed here. Case 50. The Wheatears and 
Titmice ; the latter are very active in flitting from branch to branch 
and suspending themselves in all kinds of attitudes whilst seeking for 
insects on trees. Case 51. The American Wood Warblers. Cases 
53-55. The Thrushes: some of these have long leas and short tails, 
such as the tropical Ant-Thrushes ; many have brilliant plumage ; 
others of more sombre plumage inhabit Europe and the temperate 
parts of the world, and are famed for their powers of song. Cases 56, 
57. The Flycatchers, so named from their feeding on insects . which 
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 amonc> - them is the white Chatterer of the American 
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forests, called the Campanero, or Bell-bird, from its note resembling 
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 whirh 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, using 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 
