. The living world : containing descriptions of the several races of men, and all species of animals, birds, fishes, insects, etc., etc. : with numerous anecdotes, illustrative of their instincts, reasoning powers and domestic habits . tance, and is said to varyaccording to the season. It is stated that the noise uttered by one of thesebirds is like the tolling of a distant church bell, which is more distinctlyheard during the heat of the day, when every other bird has ceased to bird utters a toll, and a minute pause ensues ; then another toll, with arepetition of the pause, and then
. The living world : containing descriptions of the several races of men, and all species of animals, birds, fishes, insects, etc., etc. : with numerous anecdotes, illustrative of their instincts, reasoning powers and domestic habits . tance, and is said to varyaccording to the season. It is stated that the noise uttered by one of thesebirds is like the tolling of a distant church bell, which is more distinctlyheard during the heat of the day, when every other bird has ceased to bird utters a toll, and a minute pause ensues ; then another toll, with arepetition of the pause, and then again a toll, and so on : the note of an-other species has been compared to the noise produced by striking a hammeron an anvil. Of the Psarince, or Becards, Gray gives the following account, whentreating of the genus Tityra:— The birds that compose this genus arc found in the warmer parts ofSouth America and the islands of the West. Indies. They migrate fromplace to place, and are usually seen perched on the highest branches of thelofty trees of the primeval forests. Insects form their chief subsistence ;these they capture by short flights, and return again to the same perch towatch for others passing within a certain /tuA Plalalm ijaja ..,...„/,.// Siimucl 1 Irov & Co Tiuulm tree ( keepers. 13 Family Tree Creepers and group is divided into two sub-families. A\ IRATIDJS. I nearly equal to the middle Outer toe .... \ shorter than the middle. Hallux louger thau in the preceding Of the Anabatince, the habits of Anabates, as given by Gray, will fur-nish the example. It is in the warmer parts of South America that these birds reside inbushv places on the sides of the rivers. They are sedentary, generally insmall flocks of ten or twelve, dispersed in the neighboring shrubs, onwhich they arc constantly on the move, sometimes leaping from branch tobranch, or hopping about on the ground round the stems of the t
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