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 CHAPTER VI.

THE SWALLOWS AND SWIFTS.

have done with the Birds of Prey now, and

come to Cuvier's second order, viz, the Insessores or Perching Birds, which inelude's more than two-thirds of all creatures that go clad in feathers. All "common or garden" birds belong to this order; fowls and turkeys and ducks and waterfowl are excluded from it. Jerdon divides it into certain Tribes according to the form of the beak, Each Tribe