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Muscicapince and the Fluvicolince. But this diffi- 

 culty we are now about to remove. It has happened* 

 most fortunately for our present purpose, that the 

 industry of modern naturalists have transmitted to 

 Europe, from different and remote localities, every 

 one of those which we consider the primary types of 

 the Eurylamidce; so that we shall now venture, after 

 patiently waiting several years for this event, to 

 submit to the public our elucidation of the whole 

 group. All the species yet discovered of this sub- 

 family we accordingly arrange under one or other of 

 the following divisions, which we shall distinguish 

 as Cymbirhynchus, Eurylaimw, Serilophus, Psari- 

 svma, and Platystoma. It will subsequently appear 

 that these are types of genera, and we shall now 

 give the distinguishing characters of each in detail. 

 The genus, named by Mr. Vigors, 



CYMBIRHYNCHUS, 



is represented by the Todiis nasutus of the old 

 ornithologists, and it differs in several remarkable 

 particulars from all its congeners. The bill is not 

 only broad but high, so that when viewed in profile 

 it seems to belong to a conirostral bird ; the under 

 mandible is consequently strong, and almost as 



