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Dr. Shufeldt (Journ. Anat. and Physiol. xx. pp. 246-266, pls. vii.-ix., 
and xxi. pp. 101, 102). 
CHARADRIOMORPHAK, the first group of Prof. Huxley’s 
Suborder Schizognathe (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1867, p. 457), nearly cor- 
responding with the Pressirostres and Longirostres of Cuvier, and the 
Limicole or Scolopaces of Nitzsch—or in other words including 
almost all the Scolopacide (SNIPE) and Charadriidx (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 Icteria (I. virens and == 
I. longicauda), which is generally referred to & 
the Family Mniotiltidy, or American WAR- 
BLERS, but may possibly not belong to them, = ¢ %= Mig 
its stout bill being very unlike that possessed Pe Se 
by the rest. Icrerra. (After Swainson.) 
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 WAxwine, 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 Linneus 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 Waxwing 
i and its congeners, 
Corinca. ity CA, the name Chatterer 
ee a has been generally 
conferred, for want of a better, on a group of birds, one of 
the most beautiful of which Brisson had termed Cotinga. This 
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 alled 
to the Pipridey (MANAKIN), and together they form the divi- 
