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other groups would be a puzzling task in the limited
space at our disposal. It will be enough for us in
this case, as in those that follow, to point out the
general arrangement of the series, merely remarking

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE NIGHTJAR

that ornithologists have been so prone to magnify
their office that in many instances their species are
given less value than the botanist’s varieties.

The next group consists of the woodpecker-like
birds, the picarians, in which many of the tropical
representatives find their place. Here are ‘the wide-
mouthed swifts and wider-mouthed nightjars, the