120 MUSCICAPIN.E. 



three corresponding ones among the Muscicapidce, 

 thus, 



LANIAD.S. ANALOGICAL CHARACTERS. MUSCICAPIl)^. 



Malaconctu,.... { InhaMtg t ^foTd World ...... } 



C Fissirostral. 



Prionops .......... < Crest greatly developed; feet> Megalophus. 



C short, pale, weak ............ j 



This we consider the hest and the final test by 

 which our proposition that Megalophw, notwith- 

 standing its crest, is a fissirostral type, can be 

 tried. The crest of the Prionops plumatus, although 

 of a different sort, is more analogous, in its extra- 

 ordinary size, to that of Megalophus, than that of 

 any other known bird ; and both further coincide in 

 having very pale and delicate feet, upon which the 

 scales are so thin that they can scarcely be perceived. 

 If we continued the comparison by enumerating the 

 other two genera in the above circles, we should 

 find that Colluricincla is no obscure representation 

 of Monacka ; but the remaining genus in the first 

 series (the ThamnophiUnce) being unknown, we 

 of course are entirely ignorant of the prototype 

 of Rhipidura. 



Having thus endeavoured to substantiate our 

 views of the primary divisions of the family of 

 Flycatchers, we shall now enter upon the details 

 of each. 



By commencing with the genus 



