CHARADRIOMORPH^—CHA TTERER 



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IcTERiA. (After Swainson.) 



Dr. Shufeldt {Journ. Anat. and Physiol, xx. pp. 246-266, pis. vii.-ix., 

 and xxi. pp. 101, 102). 



CHARADRIOMOKPH^, the first group of Prof. Huxley's 

 Suborder Schizognathx (Froc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 457), nearly cor- 

 responding with the Pressirostres and Longirostres of Cuvier, and the 

 Limicolm or Scolopaces of Nitzsch — or in other words including 

 almost all the Scolopacidai (Snipe) and Charadriidm (Plover) of 

 other systematists. 



CHAT, in England generally used with a prefix as Stonechat, 

 Whinchat, but in the valley of the Thames 

 said of itself to signify the Sedge-WARBLER. 

 In North America it is applied to the two 

 forms of the genus Ideria (I. virens and 

 /. longicauda), which is generally referred to 

 the Family MniotUtidx, or American War- 

 blers, but may possibly not belong to them, 

 its stout bill being very unlike that possessed 

 by the rest. 



CHATTERER, a word that has been used by ornithologists in 

 a very wide sense, and wholly irrespective of its meaning. Gesner's 

 name for the Waxwing, Garrulus Bohemicus [i.e. Bohemian Jay), 

 having been erroneously rendered by Ray, in his translation of 

 Willughby's Ornithology (p. 133), "Bohemian Chatterer"; and that 

 bird being also the Ampelis of Aldrovandus, subsequent writers. 

 Pennant and Latham, used " Chatterer " as the equivalent of 

 Ampelis, when Linnaeus had founded a genus with that name, quite 

 regardless of its inapplicability. This genus being very composite 



in its character 

 was naturally 

 broken up, and 

 the name Ampelis 

 having been re- 

 tained by the more 

 accurate writers in 

 its original sense 

 for the Wax"\ving 

 and its congeners, 

 the name Chatterer 

 has been generally 

 a group of birds, one of 



This 



COTINOA. 



(After Swaiuson.) 



TiJDCA. 



conferred, for want of a better, on 

 the most beautiful of which Brisson had termed Cotinga 

 group, all the members of which inhabit the Neotropical Region, 

 is a very natural one, and has long been regarded as a separ- 

 ate Family, properly called Cotingidx, though it is closely allied 

 to the Pipridse (Manakin), and together they form the divi- 



