Some Woodhewers’ beaks. 
1 he Woodhewei^ Family, 239 
by their feather-hooks when engaged in dislodging 
insects. Another curious variation is found in 
Sylviothorhjnchus, a small wren-like bird and the 
only member known of the genus, with a tail 
resembling that of the lyre-bird, the extravagantly 
long feathers being so narrow as to appear almost 
