. Elements of zoology, to accompany the field and laboratory study of animals. Zoology. 40: ZOOLOGY family have salivary glands, whose secretions aid in cementing the nest. Our common representative of this group is the chimney-swift, or chimn(\v-swallow.' Certain Chinese species malvc nests entirely of the mucilaginous secretion of the sali- vary glands; these constitute the edible birds'-nests of the Chinese. The goat-suckers include night-flying birds, with exceedingly broad gape and insectivorous habits. The night-. FiG. 300. â Nest of (â liiinni;\--s\\"ift. Phnto. looking down chinme
. Elements of zoology, to accompany the field and laboratory study of animals. Zoology. 40: ZOOLOGY family have salivary glands, whose secretions aid in cementing the nest. Our common representative of this group is the chimney-swift, or chimn(\v-swallow.' Certain Chinese species malvc nests entirely of the mucilaginous secretion of the sali- vary glands; these constitute the edible birds'-nests of the Chinese. The goat-suckers include night-flying birds, with exceedingly broad gape and insectivorous habits. The night-. FiG. 300. â Nest of (â liiinni;\--s\\"ift. Phnto. looking down chinmej", by D. and S. hawk of North America, and the whippoorwill, named for its characteristic night cry, are familiar examples. The order of perchers, or Passeres, is the most important for us l:)ecausc of the ahundance of species and indiviiluals included in it, and because of the intimacy that many of them have cul- tivated with man. The representatives of the order that live in the United Staters are arranged into about fifteen families, concerning each of which a Ijrief account follows : The flycatchers (or Tvranni(ho) are an exclusively American famil_y, feeding on insects. The best-known representatives are ' Fig. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944; Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty, 1866- joint author. New York, Macmillan
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