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group to the notice of ornithologists ; and, it is 

 proper also to mention, that several others, erro- 

 neously placed by M. Temminck under our genus 

 Drymophila, strictly helong to Monacha. The 

 analogous representations of this beautiful group are 

 so palpable that they hardly require pointing out. 

 It reminds us immediately of Psaris by its bill, 

 of Sericulus by its velvetty feathers, of Qriolu* 

 by its colour, and, through them, of the paradise 

 birds (Paradisidve). The carinated species, again, 

 puts on the exact colours of a Ceblepyris; while, 

 in M. telescopthalma, we have the spectacle-like 

 wattles of Perspicilla^ Ceblepyms lobatus, and the 

 sub-genus Platystera; not to mention the nume- 

 rous species of naked-eyed and wattled plovers, and 

 many of the honey-suckers (Meliphagidce), all 

 which are grallatorial types. How surprising is this 

 uniformity in the midst of the greatest possible 

 variety ! "We know not which excites the greatest 

 surprise the fact itself, or the new lustre thus 

 discovered in the works of OMNIPOTENCE. 



