270 AVES. 



We consider it proper to approximate to it the Thrush of 

 Neiv Guinea, -whose tail is three times the length of the body, 

 and has a double tuft on the head, which has been considered a 

 Bird of Paradise Paradissxa gularis, Lath., and Shaw; Par. 

 nigra, Gmel.j Vaill. Ois. de Par. 20 and 21; Vieill. Ois. de Par. 

 pi. viii, and Galer. 107, simply on account of the singularity 

 and incomparable magnificence of its plumage. (1) 

 Other Thrushes, with brilliant plumage, have the feathers of the 

 occiput pointed like the Starling; they are the Stournes or Lampro- 

 TORNis of Temminck.(2) 



Some of them have so slender a beak, that they approach the Saxi- 

 colse the Turdoides, or Ixos, Temm.;(3) others again have a 

 slender but strong and straight beak, and among them are some with 

 a widely forked tail, Enicures, T.(4) 



There are some of them also, which are distinguished by the 

 height of their legs, which gives them the appearance of Waders, 

 they are the Grallines of Vieill. Galer. 150; or the Tanypus of 

 Oppel. Mem. Acad. Munich, 1812, pi. viii. 



The Criniger, Temm., comprehends those Thrushes, which have 

 very strong setae on the beak, and whose neck feathers sometimes 

 have a setaceous termination. Such is the Criniger barbatus. Col. 

 88. 



Buffon has very properly separated from the Thrushes, the 



Myothera, Illig.(5) 

 The Ant-Catchers are known by their long legs and short tail. They 



(1) Vieillothas given to this bird the generic name of Astbapia. 



N.B. I think it is proper to approximate to the Thruslies which are allied to 

 the Shrikes, the Muscicapa carinaia. Swains., Zool. 111., 147, of which Vigors and 

 Horsfield make their genus Monaecha. 



(2) Tiirdus mauritianus, Gm., Enl. 648, 2 and Col. 149; T. cantor, Sonnerat, 

 Voy. I, pi. Ixxiii; Lamprotomis metalUcus, Tem. Col. 266. We should distin- 

 guish the Lampr. erythropkris,on account of its beautiful red eye-brows formed of 

 cartilaginous feathers. 



(3) Such are the Podobe{T. erythropterus, Gm.), Enl. 334 ; the Jatifredic, Vaill. 

 Afr. Ill; the Grivetin, Id., 118; the Condor, Id., 119; the Turdus tric/ias, Enl. 

 709, 2. The Terat-boulan {Turdus orientalis, Gm. Enl. 273, 2,) approximates this 

 group to the straight-beaked Shrikes. 



Add, Ixos chalcocephalus, Tem. Col. 453, I; /. squammatus, lb. 2; R- atriceps. 

 Col. 137, and particularly T. dispar. Col. 137, which has red cartilaginous feathers 

 under the throat similar to the appendages of the wing of the Chatterer. 



(4) JEnicurus coronatus, Tem. Col. 113, or Turd. LeschenauHii, Vieill. Gal. 145, 

 or Motacilla speciosa, Horsf.; ^Wlnic. velatus, Tem. Col. 160. There is quite as 

 much reason for approximating them to the straight-beaked Shrikes. 



(5) Vieill. has changed this name Into Mtrmothera. 



