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( Motacilla )—White Wagtail—Yellow-Headed, Grey, Blue-Headed, and Cape Wagtails— 
Pipits ( Anthus )—True Pipit—Meadow Pipit—Richard’s Pipit—Tawny Pipit—The 
Creepers , ( Gerthiidce )—Wall Creeper ( Tichodroma )—Australian Straight Claws (Or- 
thonyx )—The Nuthatches (Sittidce )—The Honey-Eaters ( Meliphagidce )—Parson-Bird 
(Prosthemadera) —Stitch-Bird ( Pogonornis )—White-Eyes (Zosterops )—The Sun-Birds 
( Nedariniidce )—Typical Group ( Nectarinia )—The Honey-Peckers (Dicceidce )—The Tits 
(Paridce )—True Tits ( Parus )—Crested Tits ( Lophophanes )—Long-Tailed Tits ( Acredula) 
—Bearded Tits ( Panurus )—New Zealand Creepers (Certhiparus )—Allied Types—The 
Shrikes ( Laniidce )—Shrike Tits (Falcunculus )—True Shrikes ( Lanius )—Great Grey, 
Lesser Grey, Red-Backed, Woodcliat, Masked and Hooded Shrikes—Minivets ( Peri - 
crocotus )—Other Genera—The Waxwings ( Ampelidce )—Cedar Bird, . . . 417 
CHAPTER Y.—Perching-Birds,— continued. 
The Thrushes and Warblers (. Turdidce )—True Thrushes (Turdus) —Missel-Thrush—Song- 
Thrush—Redwing—Fieldfare—Blackbirds(itfmiZa)—Rock-Thrushes(MoniicoZa)—Blue- 
Birds ( Sialia )— Cha,ts(Saxicola) —Wheatear—Blackchat—Whinchat—Stonechat—Fork- 
Tails ( Henicurus )—Redstarts ( Rutidlla )—Black Redstart—Blue-Throated Warbler 
( Erythacus )—Redbreast—Ruby throat—Nightingales—New Zealand Robins ( Miro )— 
Dhyal Birds ( Gopsychus )—Sliamas ( Cittocincla )—Grey Warbler (Gerygone )—True 
Warblers ( Sylvia) —Whitethroats—Subalpine, Spectacled, Sardinian, Orphean, and 
Garden Warblers—Blackcap—Barred, Dartford, and Willow Warblers—Icterine 
Warbler ( Hypolais )—Reed Warblers ( Acrocephalus )—Grasshopper Warbler ( Locustella ) 
—River-Warbler—Savi’s Warbler—Pheasant-Tailed Warbler (Stipiturus malacurus )— 
Cetti’s Warbler ( Bradypterus )—Fan-Tailed Warblers ( Cisticola )—Accentors ( Accentor )— 
Hedge-Sparrow—Goldcrest ( Regulus ) — Firecrest—Rubycrest—The Wood Warblers 
(Mniotiltidce )—The Dippers ( Ginclidce )—The Wrens ( Troglodytidce )—True Wrens (Tro¬ 
glodytes) —Cactus-Wrens ( Gampylorhynchus )—The Mocking-Birds ( Mimidce )—The 
Babblers ( Crateropodidce )—Typical Babblers ( Crateropus )—Green Bulbuls ( Ghloropsis )— 
True Bulbuls ( Pycnonotus)—-Liothrix —The Flycatchers ( Muscicapidce )—True Fly¬ 
catchers ( Muscicapa) —Spotted, Pied, White-Collared, and Red-Breasted Flycatchers— 
Paradise Flycatchers ( Terpsiphone )—Fantail - Flycatchers ( Rhipidura )—The Swallows 
(Hirundinidce )—True Swallows ( Hirundo )—Chimney and Red-Rumped Swallows— 
Martins ( Chelidon )—Sand-Martins ( Cotile )—Purple Martins ( Progne ), . . . 468 
CHAPTER VI.—Perching-Birds,— concluded. 
The American Flycatchers ( Tyrannidce )—Tyrant Flycatchers (Tyrannus )—Bienteveo 
Tyrant—Ant-Birds (Formicivora )—The Chatterers ( Cotingidce )—Umbrella-Bird ( Ceph - 
alopterus) —Bell-Birds ( Ghasmorhynchus )—Cotingas (Gotinga)— Manakins ( Piprci )— 
Cocks of the Rock ( Rupicola )—The Plant-Cutters ( Phytotomicla ?)—The Broadbills 
(Eurylcemidce )—The Pittas ( Pittidce )—The Wood-Hewers ( Denclrocolaptidce) —Oven- 
Birds ( Furnarius )—Spine-Tails ( Synallaxis )—The Lyre-Birds ( Menuridce ), . 527 
CHAPTER YII.—The Picarian Birds,—O rder Picarice. 
General Characters of the Order — The Jacamars ( Galbulidce) — True Jacamars 
( Galbula) —Broad-Billed Jacamars ( Jacamerops )—The Puff-Birds (Bucconidce )—The 
Woodpeckers ( Picidcc) — Ground Woodpecker ( Geocolaptes) — Bright - Shafted Wood¬ 
peckers ( Colaptes )—Golden-Winged, and Pampas Woodpeckers—Green Woodpeckers 
(. Gecinus) — Grey-Headed Woodpecker — African Green Woodpeckers ( Ghloron - 
erpes) — Red - Headed Woodpeckers (Melanerpes) — Sap - Suckers (Sphyropicus) — Pied 
Woodpeckers ( Dendrocopus) —Three-Toed Woodpeckers ( Picoides) —Crimson-Headed 
Bay Woodpecker ( Lepocestes )—Rufous Woodpeckers ( Micropternus) —Ivory-Billed 
