TVRANT 999 
sequently the Family, Tyrannidx, in which Mr. Sclater (Cat. B. 
Br. Mus. xiv. pp. 2-280) includes over 400 species, all peculiar 
to the New World, and as already stated (p. 483) belonging 
to the group CLAMATORES (TRACHEOPHONS). These he pro- 
visionally arranges in four subfamilies — Txvniopterinw with 21 
genera of more or less terrestrial habit, including Lichenops and 
Copurus ; Platyrhynchine with 20 genera, having very broad bills 
PLATYRHYNCHUS. HAaAPALOcERCUS. 
(After Swainson.) 
and weak feet, including Platyrhynchus and Hapalocercus ; Elainine 
having the gape without bristles and almost confined to the 
Neotropical Region ; and Tyrannine with 28 genera, among which 
he places blacicus and Myiarchus (ToMEOOL) and their near ally 
Contopus (PEEWEE) together with Hmpidias, to which he refers the 
well-known Sayornis fuscus (PHBE) while keeping Sayornis in his 
first subfamily, as well as JZilvulus (SCISSORS-TAIL!) and of course 
Tyrannus.” 
In several respects some of these birds resemble the SHRIKES ; 
but it must be clearly understood that the likeness? is but 
of analogy, and that there is no near affinity between the 
two Families Laniide and Tyrannidx, which belong to wholly 
distinct sections of PASSERES; and, while the former is a com- 
paratively homogeneous group, as much diversity of form and 
habits is found among the latter as among the Dendrocolaptide 
(PICUCULE), testifying to the antiquity of the Fauna of which both 
are so characteristic. Similarly many of the smaller 7yrannidx 
bear some analogy to certain Muscicapide (FLYCATCHER), with 
which they were at one time confounded; but the difference 
French Roitelet, German Kéniglein (ef. D. W. Thompson, Gloss. Greek Birds, 
p- 174), and-of course had nothing to do with the birds now called Tyrants. 
1 Accidentally misspelt Sctzzors-TAIL, p. 816. 
2 Nearly akin to the King-bird is the Petchary or Chicheree, so called from 
its loud and petulant cry, Tyrannus dominicensis, or T. griseus, one of the 
most characteristic and conspicuous birds of the West Indies, and the earliest to 
give notice of the break of day. In habits, except that it eats a good many 
berries, it is the very counterpart of its congener, and is possibly even more 
jealous of any intruder. At all events its pugnacity extends to animals from 
which it could not possibly receive any harm, and is hardly limited to any 
season of the year. 
3 It is curious that in at least some instances this likeness extends to 
the eggs. 
