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 CHAPTER XII.

THE SHRIKE AND THE KING CROW.

come now to a mixed multitude of little

birds which have not gaping mouths, nor long and slender bills, nor any other peculiarity, which are, in short, just ordinary "dicky birds." Cuvier divided these into two Tribes, distinguished by their beaks their Those stout, bills, and food. with hard which

eat seeds, he called Conirostres; and the insect eaters, with weaker bills, Dentirostres, because they have