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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: bees, large beetles, particularly those called by the boys goldsmiths, seem his favorite game. I have taken four of these large beetles from the stomach of a Purple Martin, each of which seemed entire and even unbruised. The flight of the Purple Martin unites in it all the swiftness, ease, rapidity of turning and gracefulness of motion of its tribe. Like the Swift of Europe, he sails much with little action of the wings. . (d). His usual notepeuopeuopeuo, is loud and musical; but it is frequently succeeded by others more low and guttural. To the above extract I have nothing of interest to add. 13. The VireonidSB, or vireos (sometimes called green- lets.), possess the following features in common with the Lani- idce, or shrikes ( 14), at least with our subfamily, Laniince. Bill rather short and stout, distinctly notched and hooked, also well furnished with bristles: tarsus scutellate; primaries ten, but with the first in the Vireonidce often spurious, or seemingly absent. (Fig. 6.) The Laniidce differ distinctly in being more than seven inches long, in having the sides of the tarsi scutellate behind, and in having long, rounded tails. The bill, moreover, is large and stout (not so broad as high, and scarcely twice as long), while the feet are comparatively weak. The shrikes might well be called raptorial passeres, being notorious for their boldness and mode of slaughter among others birds, etc. They are unsocial and unmusical, though perhaps mimics. Like the vireos, normally they are never seen on the ground, but they possess a much stronger flight than their small relatives. They build rather bulky nests in the woods, and lay eggs, rather coarsely marked, and never ( ?) with a pure white ground. The Butcher-bird is a type (fig. 7). The vireos, ...
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