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CHAPTER VI.
THE SWALLOWS AND SWIFTS.
We have done with the Birds of Prey now, and
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come to Cuvier's second order, viz, the Insessores or Perching Birds, which inelude's more than two-thirds of all creatures that go clad in feathers. All "common or garden" birds belong to this order; fowls and turkeys and ducks and waterfowl are excluded from it. Jerdon divides it into certain Tribes according to the form of the beak, Each Tribe
