54 may T0 FAMILIES.

plumage,olive-green or yellow heing the most frequent; hill Various, never notched at the tip, usually slender and sharply pointed, without ennspieunus bristles, but sometimes flattened and hrmnler than high at the luls‘e, when the bristles are evident \thus l‘t‘s‘ulllllllll}: the hill 01' a true Flyeateher, hut the hack of the tarsus is ulwz

‘s thin and narrow, and never rounded as in

front); rarely the hill is heuner, more. tlirushlike or tinehlilie: second or third primary longest, the first little it" any shorter; tail generally square, sometimes rounded, the outer feathers frequently hlutehed “ith white, p.333.

Family 13. .l/ota(‘il/itlw.—\VAGT.-\ILs and l’uu'rs tl-‘ig. 541.

N0 hristles over the nostrils: hill slender, mueh as in the preceding; hind tne~nail mueh lengthened, as long as or longer than the toe : first three primaries of equal length, p. 375.

Family 14. Troylod‘I/tirlw.“Tums”— Ens, WRENS, ete. (Fig. 57)). Subfzunily Jliminw. — ’l'uRAsIIERs, llIoeKiNoisnum. and (,‘Arismns. Length 500—1251"); tarsus sealed; tail rounded, the outer feathers zit, least half an ineh shorter than the middle ones. third tr; til'th primary longest, the first about half as long, p. 376.

Suhf’amily Troy/ImIII/n'nam—W1u£.\'s. Length 41NHJ'4)I’: hill moderate. the upper mandi lJlU slitrhtly curved, no bristles at its base: third to fourth primary longest, first ulmut halt‘ns long; tail short and round— ed; hrmvn or hrmrnish birds with indistinetly barred wings and tail, p. 376.

Family 1:3. I”:rl/Ii1'x/rr.~(‘iuim'fiks (Fig. 5oz),

Bill slender and mueh euned; tail—

feathers pointed and slightly still'ened, p.355.