THE 
GENERA  OF  BIRDS. 
COMPRISING 
THEIR  GENERIC  CHARACTERS, 
A NOTICE  OE  THE  HABITS  OF  EACH 
GENUS, 
AND 
AN  EXTENSIVE  LIST  OF  SPECIES 
REFEREED  TO  THEIR  SEVERAL  GENERA. 
BY 
-s 
•V  ‘ 
GEORGE  ROBERT  GRAY,  F.L.S. 
SENIOR  ASSISTANT  OF  THE  NATURAL  HISTORT"  DEPARTMENT  IN  THE  BRITISH  MUSEE-M  ^ 
CORltKSVONDlNG  MEMBER  OF  THE  ROYAL  ACADEMY  OF  SCIENCES  OF  TURIN  ; OP  THE  IMPERIAL  AND  ROYAL  ACADEMY  OF  GEORGOFILI  OF  FLORENCE  ; 
the  royal  society  of  AGRICULTURE,  NATURAL  HISTORY,  AND  USEFUL  ARTS  OF  LY'ON  ; OP  THE  SOCIETY  OF  THE  IVIUSEUM  OP'  NATURAL  HISTORY  OF  STRASBOL  lio  ; 
OF  THE  LlNNiE.^^  SOCIETY  OF  LYON  ; OF  THE  ACADEM\'  OF  NATURAL  SCIENCES  OP'  PHILADELI'HIA,  U.  S.  ; 
HONORARY  MEMBER  OF  THE  NATURAL  IIISTORA'  SOCIETY  OF  HESSE  DARMSTADT;  ETC.  ETC. 
AUTHOR  OF 
“ A LIST  OF  THE  GENERA  OF  BIRDS,”  SEVERAL  EKTOMOLOGICAL  I’UBLICATIONS,  ETC. 
ILLUSTRATED  BY 
DAVID  WILLIAM  MITCHELL,  B.A.  F.L.S. 
SECRETARY  TO  THE  ZOOLOGICAL  SOCIETY  OF  LONDON; 
HONORARY  MEMBER  OF  THE  ROYAL  ZOOLOGICAL  SOCIETY  OF  AMSTERDAM,  AND  OP’ 
SEVERAL  LEARNP:D  SOCIETIES. 
IN  THllEE  VOLUMES. 
VOL.  III. 
1844—1849. 
LONDON: 
LONGMAN,  BROM^N,  GREEN,  AND  LONGMANS, 
PATERNOSTOU-ROW. 
1849. 
