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us are so completely at variance with those of our 

 best ornithologists, that it is due to them, no less 

 than to ourselves, to strengthen our position as 

 much as possible, that it may he seen we have 

 given the subject that attention it deserved before 

 we ventured to promulgate a theory so much at va- 

 riance with all that has hitherto been received. It 

 is with this intention that we shall now lay before 

 the ornithologist two other tables in further illustra- 

 tion of the series of the typical species of Todus; 

 the first of these will make good their analogy, in 

 the following manner, with the sub-divisions of the 

 genus. 



Specific types of 



Todus. 



^NALOGJCAL CHARACTERS. 



("Bill very long,! 



- mefanoceplialus. 



- ,.^ y ^ ----- ~~. 



nearly entire.. J 

 Bill shorter, the } 

 tip abruptly > TODUS. 

 bent ; tail short J 

 re trian 

 head 



ge, front 

 bristly ; tail 

 short ....... 



I Bill mor 

 gular ; 

 .... . large, 

 brist 

 L very 



CONOPOPHAGA. 



C Tail lengthened, 1 

 platycircus < gradu 



ail lengthened, 1 

 graduated, the > 

 ends pointed... J 



FLATYSTERJA. 

 LEPTURUS. 



The spe(;ies here named Megacephalus, and which 

 will be subsequently described and figured, is very 



