CASSELL'S BOOK OF BIRDS. [Illustration: THE BLUE-STRIPED LORY ____ LORIUS CYANOSTRIATUS (_about four fifths Life size_)] CASSELL'S BOOK OF BIRDS. _FROM THE TEXT OF DR. BREHM._ BY THOMAS RYMER JONES, F.R.S., PROFESSOR OF NATURAL HISTORY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY IN KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. WITH UPWARDS OF Four Hundred Engravings, and a Series of Coloured Plates. _IN FOUR VOLUMES._ VOL. I. LONDON: CASSELL, PETTER, AND GALPIN; AND NEW YORK. CONTENTS. PAGE EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION 1-22 CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS 23 CRACKERS (_Enucleatores_). PARROTS (_Psittacini_). The TRUE PARROT (_Psittacinæ_):--The Jako--The Amazon Parrot--The Maitakka--The Crested Hawk Parrot 24-43 THE DWARF PARROTS (_Psittacula_):--Swinder's Love Bird--The Sparrow Parrot--The Siskin Parrot 43-45 COCKATOOS (_Plyctolophus_):--The Lemon-crested Cockatoo--Leadbeater's Cockatoo--The Helmet Cockatoo--The Nose Cockatoo--The Nestor Cockatoo--The Eagle Cockatoo--The Casmalos--Banks's Raven Cockatoo--The Kakapo, or Night Parrot of New Zealand 45-57 THE ARARAS (_Aræ_): The Scarlet Macaw--The Soldier Arara--The Anakan--The Ararauna--The Hyacinth-coloured Arara. The PARRAKEETS, or CONICAL-TAILED PARROTS (_Conurus_):--The Garuba--The Tiriba--The Carolina Parrakeet--The Choroy 58-66 THE LONG-TAILED PARROTS, OR PARRAKEETS (_Palæornithes_):--The Collared, or Rose-ringed Parrot--The Bettet. The SUPERB PARROTS (_Polytelis_):--The Scarlet-crested Superb Parrot--The Black-tailed Superb Parrot. The GRASS PARROTS (_Platycerci_):--The Rosella--The Variegated Parrot--The Waved Parrot--The Corella--The Ground Parrakeet 66-79 THE LORIES (_Lorii_):--The Purple-capped Lory--The Dappled Lorikeet--Swainson's Lorikeet--The Maiden Lorikeet--The Papuan Lory--The Blue-striped Lory 79-82 PASSERINE BIRDS (_Passeres_). THE CROSS-BILLS (_Loxiæ_):--The Large-beaked Cross-bill--The Pine-tree Cross-bill--The Banded Cross-bill--The Parrot Greenfinch 85-92 THE BULLFINCHES (_Pyrrhulæ_):--The Parrot Bullfinch--The Pine Grosbeak--The Carmine Grosbeak--The Rose Bullfinch--The Carmine Bullfinch--The Siberian Bullfinch--The Vinous Grosbeak, or Desert Trumpeter--The Bullfinch--The Girlitz--The Canary 92-114 THE FINCHES (_Fringillæ_):--The Chaffinch--The Mountain Finch--The Snow Finch--The Winter Finch. The LINNETS (_Cannabinæ_)--The Brown Linnet--The Mountain or Grey Linnet--The Birch-tree Siskin--The Common Siskin--The Goldfinch--The Golden Thistle Finch 114-130