Birds with Long Bills

Crested birds

Birds with very long legs

Birds with legs feathered to the toe

1. Birds with the tail deeply forked

2. Birds with long tails (i.e. long in proportion to rest of body)

3. Birds with a very short tail

4. Birds in which a part of the tail feathers are prolonged beyond the rest as bristles

Birds in which the sexes differ greatly in appearance

1. Birds with a quantity of black in their plumage

2. Black-headed birds

3. Black collaret or gorget or band across the breast

4. Black streak through the eye (i.e. from beak to back of head)

5. Black and another colour

6. Black and two other colours

Birds with blue in their plumage

1. Birds whose general hue is earthy brown

2. Birds with chocolate or rich brown in plumage

3. Brown and black birds.

1. A fawn-coloured bird with black and white wings and tail

2. Black and coffee colour

Birds in the plumage of which bright green predominates

1. Prevailing hue grey

2. The head only grey

3. Grey and black

4. Grey, black, and white

5. Grey and red bird

6. Grey and white

1. Birds with red in plumage, or having red wattles or red skin on head

2. Red crest

3. Red-legged birds

4. Red patch of feathers under the tail, birds with

5. Red patch of feathers on shoulder, birds with

6. Red patch of skin on side of head, birds with

7. Red and black

1. Birds of which the plumage is pure white

2. Birds in the plumage of which white largely predominates

3. Dull-coloured bird whose wings appear all white when flying

4. White bar in wing, birds with

5. Two white bars in wing, birds with

6. White cheeks, birds with

7. Ring of white feathers round eye

8. White and black

9. White, black, and blue

10. White, black, and brown

11. White, black, and chestnut

12. White, grey, and black

13. White, pink, black

1. Birds with bright yellow in the plumage

2. Birds with bright yellow or orange legs

3. Birds with dull-coloured upper plumage and bright yellow under parts

4. Yellow patch of feathers under the tail, birds with

5. Yellow patch of feathers on the throat, bird with

6. Yellow patch of skin on side of head or yellow wattles, birds with

7. Yellowish red

8. Yellow and black

9. Birds in the plumage of which at least four bright colours appear

1. Birds of very powerful flight, i.e. birds which spend a great part of the day on the wing

2. Birds which make little sallies into the air from a perch after insects

3. Little birds which fly from the ground some twenty or thirty feet and then drop to the ground, singing as they descend

1. Birds which feed largely on the ground

2. Birds that run up and down the trunks of trees, on which they find their food

3. Birds that feed largely on insects which they pick off the foliage, sometimes hovering on vibrating wings in order to secure their quarry

4. Birds which feed on insects which they catch in the air by making little sallies from a perch

5. Birds which either catch fish or take their food off the surface of water