1 16 MUSCICAPIN^. 



more than probable it is all but certain. Rkipi- 

 dura, in fact, possesses the whole of the rasorial 

 characters excepting one, which seems transferred, 

 as it were, to Megalophw, in the form of a crest ; 

 at least no species has yet been discovered, among 

 the fan-tailed flycatchers, which possesses this 

 ornament. 



Let us now institute another comparison, by 

 which, probably, what we have just advanced on 

 the analogies of this family will in some degree be 

 confirmed. Every ornithologist must be struck 

 with the resemblance between the Babbling Thrushes 

 (Crateropus) and the Fan-tailed Flycatchers ( Rhi- 

 pldura). We will therefore bring the circles in 

 which these two groups occur into comparison, and 

 by placing them opposite one another, ascertain whe- 

 ther a resemblance may be traced in all the other 

 groups of which these two circles are composed. 



{ 



Feet large ; tail long, very | 



- > Crate 



broad, soft, and fan- > Crateropodinte, 

 shaped ............................. ) 



f Bill cylindrical, the sides > 

 MoaadM - ......... - .......... \ 



Megalophus. Feet small, shojt, weak Brachypodiiue. 



C Wings and tail very short, T> 

 Todus < and rounded ; legs long. V Myotherina. 



slender ; toes often uni ted j 



.,. . C Wings long ; feet moderate ;> ., ,. 



Musctcapa ] * ' c Mem/tut. 



Here the analogies of the flycatchers become much 

 more definite, iimply because they are compared 



