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 
GEORGE ROBERT GRAY, F.L.S. 
senior assistant of the natural history department in the British museum ; 
CORRESPONDING MEMBER OP THE ROYAL ACADEMY OP SCIENCES OP TURIN; OF THE IMPERIAL AND ROYAL ACADEMY OP OL-OROOllU l Ol 
<** ROYAL SOCIETY OP AGRICULTURE, NATURAL HISTORY, AND USEFUL ARTS OP LYON; OP THE SOCIETY OP THE MUSEUM OP NATURAL HISTORY 
OP THE LINN A3 AN SOCIETY OP LYON; OP THE ACADEMY OP NATURAL SCIENCES OP PHILADELPHIA, U. S. ; 
HONORARY MEMBER OF THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF HESSE DARMSTADT; ETC. ETC. 
AUTHOR OF 
« „ , OP THE GENERA OF BIRDS," SEVERAL ENTOMOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS, ETC. 
ILLUSTRATED BY 
DAYID WILLIAM MITCHELL, B.A. F.L.S. 
SECKETARY TO THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON; 
HONORARY MEMBER OP THE ROYAL ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OP AMSTERDAM, AND OP 
SEVERAL LEARNED SOCIETIES. 
IN THREE VOLUMES. 
VOL. I. 
1844 — 1849 . 
LONDON: 
LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS, 
PATERNOSTER-ROW. 
1849 . 
