846 SHUFFLE-WING—SISKIN 
The view taken by the late Prof. Parker seems to be the most 
reasonable: these genera— doubtless with others and most of 
them Australian—are morphologically inferior to the true Corvidz, 
and perhaps deserve some such designation as that of ‘ Noto- 
Coracomorphe” suggested by him (Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 327).4 
At the same time their relationship to the Laniidw 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 
COLLYRIOCINCLA, EURYCEPHALUS. TEPHRODORNIS. 
(After Swainson.) 
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 Collyriocincla, Eurycephalus and 
Tephrodornis here figured. 
SHUFFLE-WING, an appropriate name for the Hedge-SPARRow, 
from its ‘peculiar shake of the wing” (Knapp, Journ. Nat. p. 151). 
SILVER-EYE, the name given in New Zealand to the species 
of ZOSTEROPS (Z. lateralis) which was first recognized there in 1856 
(Buller, Essay on Orn. New 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 spinus of Linnzus, and Carduelis 
spinus of many modern writers.? In some of its structural characters 
1 By an oversight (e.g. p. 403) this group was designated ‘‘ Austro-Coraces” 
—the term by which Prof. Parker often spoke 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 ‘‘ ABERDUVINE ” (page 1). 
* Those who would separate it from Carduelis should use the name Spinus, 
not, as commonly, Chrysomitris, and then our bird becomes S. viridis. 
