+---------------------------------------------------------+ | Note: | | | | _ around word indicats italics _IN FOUR VOLUMES._ | | = around word indicats bold =T= | +---------------------------------------------------------+ [Illustration: _Plate 21, Cassell's Book of Birds_ THE BLUE GRANDALA ____ Grandala Coelicolor _about 2/3 Nat. 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. III. LONDON: CASSELL, PETTER, AND GALPIN; AND NEW YORK CONTENTS. PAGE THE SEARCHERS (_Investigatores_). THE CLIMBERS. The CLIMBING BIRDS (_Scansor_):--The Tenuirostral. The FLOWER BIRDS (_Certhiola_). The BLUE BIRDS (_Cæreba_):--The Sai, or Blue Caereba. The PITPITS (_Certhiola_):--The Banana Quit, or Black and Yellow Creeper. The HONEYSUCKERS (_Nectarinia_):--The Abu-Risch. The FIRE HONEYSUCKERS (_Æthopyga_):--The Cadet. The BENT-BEAKS (_Cyrtostomus_):--The Australian Blossom Rifler. The SPIDER-EATERS (_Arachnothera_). The HALF-BILLS (_Hemignathus_):--The Brilliant Half-bill. The HANGING BIRDS (_Arachnocestra_):--The True Hanging Bird. The HONEY-EATERS (_Meliphaga_). The TRUE HONEY-EATERS (_Myzomela_):--The Red-headed Honey-eater. The TUFTED HONEY-EATERS (_Ptilotis_):--The Yellow-throated Tufted Honey-eater. The BRUSH WATTLE BIRDS (_Melichæra_):--The True Brush Wattle Bird--The Poe, or Tui. The FRIAR BIRDS (_Tropidorhyncus_):--The "Leatherhead." The HOOPOES (_Upupa_):--The Common Hoopoe. The TREE HOOPOES (_Irrisor_):--The Red-beaked Tree Hoopoe 1-15