846 



SHUFFLE- WING— SISKIN 



The view taken by the Late Prof. Parkei* seems to be the most 

 reasonable : these genera — doubtless with others and most of 

 them Australian — are morphologically inferior to the true Coi'vidx, 

 and perhaps deserve some such designation as that of " Noto- 

 Coracomor2)ha! " suggested by him (Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 327).^ 

 At the same time their relationship to the Laniidai appears to be 

 evident, and they may perhaps be best regarded as the less-altered 

 descendants of an old type, whence both the true Crows and the 

 true Shrikes have sprung, each to develop into higher morphological 



COLLYBIOCINCLA. 



EURYCEPHALUS. 



(After Swainson.) 



Tephrodornis. 



rank, and by the way to throw out numerous other branches. As 

 to the ViREOS it would seem almost certain that they have little 

 or no connexion with the Laniidx ; but on the other hand no 

 inconsiderable number of forms, which some recent systematists 

 have regarded as a Family, Prionopidx, appear to be hardly separable 

 from the Shrikes, and among them Collyriocinda, Eurycephalus and 

 Tejjhrodornis here figured. 



SHUFFLE-WING, an appropriate name for the Hedge-SPARROW, 

 from its "peculiar shake of the wing" (Knapp, Journ. Nat. jx 151). 



SILVER-EYE, the name given in New Zealand to the species 

 of ZosTEROPS (yZ. lateralis) which Avas first recognized there in 1856 

 (Buller, Essay on Orn. Neio Zeal. 1865, p. 9). 



SINCIPUT, the fore part of the head to the crown, as opposed 

 to OCCIPUT (p. 649). 



SISKIN (Dan. Sidsken ; Germ. Zeisig and Zeising), long known 

 in England as a cage-bird, since, in 1544, Turner mentioned it in 

 that character under this name,- and said that he had only once 

 met with it at large — the Fringilla sjnnus of Linnaeus, and Carduelis 

 spinus of many modern Avriters.^ In some of its structural characters 



'" By an oversight {e.r/. p. 403) this group Avas designated " Austru-Coraces" 

 — the term by whidi Prof. Parker often s]»oke of it, though " Austro-corvines " 

 {Trans. Zool. Soc. x. p. 252) is his nearest approach to it in print that I can find. 

 In the earlier passage cited in the text his expression is as above given. 



- It is also called by bird-fanciers " Abadavine " or " Abeudua'INE " (jiage 1). 



^ Those who would separate it from Carduelis should use the name Spinus, 

 not, as commonly, Chrysomiiris, and then our bird becomes S. viridis. 



