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fourth, fifth, and sixth Parts, the subjects illustrated being all 

 selected from the birds of the Neotropical region. 



The authors (p. 54) express their belief that Myiadestes ought 

 to be grouped with the Turdidae rather than with the Ampelida. 

 This arrangement was strongly urged by Prof. Baird (Rev. Am. 

 B. p. 408), although he placed the genus as a section of a sub- 

 family of AmpeliddB. Under M. ralloides (D^Orb.), are placed as 

 synonyms Ptilogonys griseiventris, Tschudi, and M. venezue- 

 lensis, ScL, the identity of the first and last having been deter- 

 mined from a comparison of the types. The genus Mijiadestes 

 seems to be very well i-epresented in the Antilles; but, as is almost 

 universally the case with the natural-history productions of those 

 Isles, our acquaintance with the distribution of the various spe- 

 cies is anything but satisfactory. Only the Cuban and Jamaican 

 species are well known ; another is supposed to come from 

 Martinique ; of a fourth still less is known, while there is more 

 or less evidence of the existence of others in the islands of 

 St. Domingo and St. Vincent. (Edicnemus superciliaris was long 

 ago described byTschudi, but recognized byno subsequent author, 

 the name having been placed by Prof. Schlegel and others as a 

 synonym of the well-known ffi. bistriatus, Wagler. The two 

 species, however, are perfectly distinct : one inhabits the eastern 

 plains of the northern portion of the South-American continent 

 and Central America, the other is confined to the Transandean 

 plains of Peru. 



Part V. includes : — 



Tacliyphonus pliceniceus. 



„ delattrii. . 



Xiphocolaptes emigrans. 



„ major. 



Accipiter chilensis. 

 Leucopternis superciliaris. 

 Geotrygon chiriquensis. 

 „ bourcieri. 



Accipiter chilensis is the Chilian race of A. pileatus of Brazil, 

 and has been confounded with A. cooperi of North America, the 

 young plumage of the two species being very similar. As 



