Identifier: fivehundredfasci00mile (find matches)
Title: Five hundred fascinating animal stories, with numerous colored plates, illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., etc., ect.
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Miles, Alfred H. (Alfred Henry), 1848-1929
Subjects: Animal behavior Zoology
Publisher: New York, The Christian herald
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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sed bythe habit of perching; II Picariae: birds that climb, etc.Ill Psittacini: the Parrots; IV Columbae ■ the Doves; VGallinae : the Fowls; VI Opisthocomi: the Hoazin of Braziland Guinea; VII Accipitres: the Birds of Prey; VIII Gralla-tores: the birds that wade; IX Anseres: the Birds that swim;X Struthiones: the Ostrich, the Emu, etc., etc.ORDER I. ^he species of this order are very numerous, andPerching have been variously divided by different authorities.Birds. Mr. Wallace forms them into five groups, whichclassification we shall find it convenient to follow. Thesefive groups are: I The Thrushes and Thrush-like perchingbirds; II The Tanagers and similar kinds; III The Starlingsand allied species; IV The Ant-eaters, etc., and V The LyreBirds, and the Scrub Birds of Australia. The first groupincludes many well known feathered favourites : the Thrush;the Blackbird; the Mocking Bird; the Tailor Bird; theWren; the Robin; the Nightingale; the Titmouse; the No. 13 MILES NATURAL HISTORY.
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TATOU(Priodonta gigas)

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