(51)8 CALAMOPIIILUS BIARMICUS. 



Remarks. — The only known species of this genus has by 

 most authors been referred to that of the Tits, and by the rest 

 considered as intimately allied to them ; but the examination 

 of its bill, tongue, and digestive organs has induced me to place 

 it in connexion with the Passerinse. In some respects it is dis- 

 tantly allied to Emberiza Schoeniclus ; but its more direct 

 affinities are, I think, to the species of the American genera 

 Ammodramus, whose mode of life is very similar. Its affinity 

 to the Tits is very remote, and, although I have been cen- 

 sured for pointing out errors, I cannot allow such an associa- 

 tion to remain undisturbed. The bird in question has not the 

 abrupt, bristle-tipped tongue of a Tit, and its (esophagus is 

 dilated toward the right side, as in all the birds which I have 

 referred to the order of Huskers. 



