AVES. 513 



Sub-genera Myzcrnis Hodgs. Sp. Thnalia gularis Hoesp., Myioihera 

 gularis Temm. PL color. 442, fig. i, &c. 



Sub-gen. Chrysomma Hodgs. Sp. TiniaUa hypokuca Frankl., De La- 

 FRESN,, GUER. Mag. de Zool. 1835, Ols. PI. 39, &c. 



Macronus Jard. 

 Sp. Timalia trichoorhos TEini. PL coL 594, fig. i. 



Jora HoESF. Bill moderate or shorter than head, compressed, 

 emarginate. Wings with first quill short, fourth, fifth and sixth 

 subequal, longest of all. Secondaries long. Tail even. 



Sp. Jora tiphia, Motacilla tiphia L., Edwards Birds, Tab. 'jg;—JoraLa/res- 

 nayi Hartl. Magas. de Zool. 1845, Ois. PL 60, &c. Species from the 

 East Indies, Ceylon and the Sunda Islands; comp. Haetlaub, 1. cit. 



Liothrix Swains. ^ Furcuria Less. Bill shorter than head, 

 strong, compressed, emarginate, with culmen. curved. Nostrils 

 basal, lateral. Bristles at the angles of mouth. Wings somewhat 

 short, rounded, with fifth and sixth quills suLequal, longest of all. 

 Tarsi slender, long. Tail moderate or somewhat long. 



Sp. Liothrix sinensis, Tanagra sinensis Gm., Parus furcatus Temm. PL color. 

 237, fig. I ; China, Himalaya. This species, with forked tail, formed 

 originally the genus of Swainson, which Lesson, simultaneously with 

 him, distinguished (as a sub-genus of Parus); Traite d'Orniih. p. 457. 

 Other species from central Asia, which may be added to it, have an even 

 tail, some a wedge-shaped tail, as Liotliryx chrysocephala, Muscicap>a varie- 

 gata Delessert, Guer. Magas. de Zool. 1840, Ois. PI. 19. 



Mimus BoiE, Orplitus S WAINS, (add Toxostoma Wagl. and 

 Hmyes Gambel). Bill moderate, compressed, emarginate at the 

 tip. Nostrils basal, oval, placed in a small fossa. Bristles at the 

 angle of mouth. Wings rounded, with fourth and fifth quills, 

 sometimes also sixth, subequal, longest of all. Tail elongate, 

 graduated or rounded, ample. 



Sp. Mimus polyglottus, Twrdus polyglottus L., Wilson Amer. Ornith. PI. x. 

 fig. I ; the moclcing-hird ; back grey, whitish below; wings and tail greyish- 

 black with white on the outside. This North American bir^ has, with a 

 pleasing and powerful song, the ability also to learn the note of other 

 birds, and even to imitate all kinds of sound ; — compare Wilson (Jardine's 

 edit.) I. pp. 164 — 176. The same ability also belongs to Mimus orphcus, 

 Turdus Orpheus L., Edwards Birds, PI, 78, from the West Indies, and in 



^ Leiothrix, Fauna Boreali-Amer., Birds, p. 490. 



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