2 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



separated them, some of them being placed as a sub-family, 

 Timalijue, o^\)\s Maluridce ; and others in the l-'tilorJu/uchhice. a 

 sub-family of the Gm'ruliiUe, or Jays. Latterlj^ however, lie fully 

 recognized the extent of the group, so far as to locate in his 

 family, Timalidce, most of the birds now usually placed here ; 

 but he included in it many of the short-legged Thrushes, 

 BracliypodbKS ; and, with more justice, I consider, the group 

 of Mocking-birds, or American short-winged Thrushes, Blyth, 

 in his Catalogue, also classed them much as the Prince 

 formerly did ; but now nearly adopts the group as deHned by 

 Gray and Horsfield, with some additions. This naturalist also 

 is inclined to place the diminutive, short-winged warblers, such 

 as -Dri/moica, Prinia, &c., with the Babblers ; but I prefer class- 

 ing them as a type of the Sylviadcs. 



Taking all their characters and habits into consideration, I fully 

 agree with Gray and Horsfield in their views as to the extent of 

 this fam.ily ; but I believe that many other forms, not itsually 

 associated with this family, also belong here, some of which will 

 be pointed out in the proper place. As we approach the limits 

 of the group on either side, there are of course a few forms whose 

 place is not so clear or marked ; and one or more have been placed 

 in the next family, the Brachypodidce ; and tliis we can easily under- 

 stand (as the two groups approach each other, if they do not actu- 

 ally unite,) without agreeing with the Prince of Canino, and placing 

 the short-legged Thrushes, of strict arboreal habits, with these 

 strong-legged and active clamberers, and ground birds. A few of 

 this family also approach the MyiotherincB, and several of the smaller 

 members of the Timalta section were classed hy Temminck under 

 his somewhat heterogeneous Myiothera. Some of the forms of 

 this family also approach the Leiotrichwce ; they are classed 

 together by certain foreign Ornithologists ; aud one, or more genera 

 have been bandied between the two groups by otlier writers. 



Bonaparte divides the I'iinalidce (excluding the Bulbuls) into 

 Liofruddiue, Garrulacina^ CrateropodincB, Mimina', and Tunalince. 

 I shall divide them, without bestowing any distinct name, or 

 defining the limits of each very closely, into the following sections: 

 Isi, the thick billed, or Finch-thrudies ; 2nd, the Jay -thrushes 



