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Title: The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885 Ralph, W. L., former owner. DSI
Subjects: Zoology Animals
Publisher: London : W.S. Orr and Co.
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tiis, Spix). The beak of another, twice as long as the head, is arched only towards the tip (Je Nasican of Vaillant). That ofa third is long, slender, and as much arcuated as in Melithreptus. The Tichodromes (Tichodroma, Ilhger),Or Wall-creepers, do not lean upon the tail, although they creep up walls and rocks as the precedingdo tbe trunks of trees, but they chng to them with their strong claws. Their beak is triangular anddepressed at its base, very long and slender. (They moult twice in the year.) One only is known, an inhabitant of the south of Europe (Certhia nmraria, Lin.). It is a handsome bird of alight ash-colour, with some bright red on the wings. Throat of the male black (in summer. The affinities ofthis curious little bird are not obvious). The Honey-suckers (Nectarinea, lUiger)—Neither use tlie tail, nor indeed climb, although their beak, of medium length, arched, pointed, andcompressed, resembles that of the Tree-creepers. A.^ of them are foreign. lLrMMIIK(& BIMIDS
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J, Tr.,.liilns l;.m.li.nn2. Tiorlnlus Ci-isi.-itu.s 3. Tiwliiliis Coi. Tiuu-hilus A.I PASSERIN.dE. 20/ The name Gult-guit is applied to certain small species, tbe males of ^liicb have vivid colours. Their tongue isbifid and filamentous. Cerihia eyanea, Tem., and C. ccerulea, Edwards, are American examples, to which we addsome eastern species, most of which are red,—the Coereba, Vieillot. We may separate, however, the largest and least handsome of them, wherein the tong^ue is short and cartila-ginous ; as the Merops rufiis of Spix, which constructs a nest upon shrubs, arched over hke an oven, and of whichM. Teniminck forms his genus Opetiorhynchus, and M. Vieillot his Funtarius. The Figulus of Spix doesnot difter. DlCEUM, Cuv. The members of this group also do not climb, nor employ the tail: their arched and pointed beak,longer than the head, is depressed and widened at its base. They inhabit the East Indies, are veiy small, and have generally some scarlet on tlieir plumage. In Melit

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