. Birds: the elements of ornithology . The Metallic Sun-bird (Nectarinia metallica). forms, but they also range through India to Australia. TheMetallic Sun-bird {Nectarinia metallica) may be taken as a typeof the group, which embraces a hundred and five differentspecies, arranged in nine genera. They have long and slenderbills like the Humming-birds. Of those charming familiar little Birds known to us as Tits,one of the most charming is the Blue Tit {Parus cceruleus), 102 HLBMBNTS OP OEIflTEOLO&Y. which shows itself even in our towns. We take the Coal Tit(Parus britannious)- as our example of
. Birds: the elements of ornithology . The Metallic Sun-bird (Nectarinia metallica). forms, but they also range through India to Australia. TheMetallic Sun-bird {Nectarinia metallica) may be taken as a typeof the group, which embraces a hundred and five differentspecies, arranged in nine genera. They have long and slenderbills like the Humming-birds. Of those charming familiar little Birds known to us as Tits,one of the most charming is the Blue Tit {Parus cceruleus), 102 HLBMBNTS OP OEIflTEOLO&Y. which shows itself even in our towns. We take the Coal Tit(Parus britannious)- as our example of this group of Birds,of which there are seventy-seven species, the greater number,and the brighter kinds, being confined to the Old few exceptions, they do not extend beyond the NorthernHemisphere. Fig. Goal Titmouse (Parus bntatmiciis). A very numerous group of small, brilliant Birds, confined toAmerica, and mainly to Tropical America, are known asTanagers, and there seem to be no less than three hundred andseventy-four species of them. Their plumage is very oftenmore or less extensively or markedly red, but may be of variousother bright tints, and Tanagra episcnpus, which may stand asour type, is of a pale blue colour marked with white spots. 108. 103
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