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REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[part I. 



PLATYCICHLA, Baied. 

 Platycichla, Baird, Rev. Am. Birds, I, 1864, 82. (Type P, brevipes, Bd.) 



Platydchla brevipes, Baikd. (Brazil.) 



General appearance that of Cichlopsis, the bill rather longer and much more 

 attenuated at the end ; the lower mandible much weaker and narrower, the 

 toes perhaps a little more deeply cleft ; the feet larger, but similarly propor- 

 tioned ; the claws longer and less curved. The wings and tail are similar, 

 the latter rather shorter ; the outer quill one-third the 2d. Inside and bases 

 of quills colored as in Planesticus, and throat similarly streaked. 



This generic form in many respects, with Cichlopsis, unites the 

 Thrushes to the Myiadestes, and shows clearly that all three should 

 belong rather with the Turdidae as a subfamily, than with Ampe- 

 lidee. I find no differences in any to throw them out of the Turdidae, 

 with which they agree so closely in the undivided tarsi (except 

 occasionally at lower end), the short spurious primary, the toothed 

 and bristled bill, etc. 



For further remarks relative to this genus I refer to page 32 of 

 the present work. I there placed it among the Thrushes, and now 

 consider it as showing the relationship between the true Turdinas 

 and Amjyelinae, and proving the propriety of combining them in 

 the same family. 



Platycichla brevipes. 



Platycichla brevipes, Baied, Rev. Am. Birds, I, 1864, 32 (Brazil). 

 Hab. Brazil. 



For the description of this species I would refer to the page of 

 the present work cited above. 



