246 BIRDS. 



Other Thrushes, with brilliant plumage, have the feathers of the occi- 

 put pointed like the Starling; they are the Stournes or Lamprotornis 

 of Teniminck*. 



Some of them have so slender a bill, that they approach the Saxicolse — 

 (the TuRDOiDES, or Ixos, Temm.f); others, again, have a slender but 

 strong and straight bill, and among them are some with a widely forked 

 tail (Enicures), T-X 



There are some of them also, distinguished by the height of their legs, 

 which gives them the appearance of waders; they are the Grallines 

 of Vieill. Galer. 150; or the Tanypus of Oppel. Mem. de I'Acad. de 

 Munich, 1812, pi. viii. 



The Criniger, Temm., comprehends those Thrushes which have 

 very strong setae on the bill, and whose feathers on the back of the neck 

 sometimes have a setaceous termination. Such is the Criniger harhatus, 

 Col. 88. 



Buffon has very properly separated from the Thrushes, the 



Myothera,|1 lUig. 



The Ant-catchers are known by their long legs and short tail. They 

 live on insects, and chiefly on ants. . They are found in both continents. 

 Those of the eastern world, however, are remarkable for the bril- 

 liant colours of their plumage : they are the Breves of Buffon § — 

 Corvus brachyurus, Gm., Enl. 257 and 258; Edw. 324, to which 

 have been lately added several other beautiful species ^. We must 

 also add the Azurin — Turdus cyanurus, Lath, and Gmel. ; Corvus 

 cyanurus, Shaw, Enl. 355**, which only differs in the tail being 

 somewhat pointed. 



* Turdus mauritianus, Gm., Enl. 648, 2, and Col. 149. — T. cantor, Sonnerat, Voy. 



1. pi. bcxiii. — Lamprotornis metalUcus, Tem. Col. 266. We should distinguish the 

 Lampr. erythrophris, on account of its beautiful red eye-brows formed of cartilagi- 

 nous feathers, 



t Such are the Podobe {T. erythropterus, Gm.), Enl. 334.— The Janfredic, Vaill. 

 Afr. Ill; the Grivethi, Id. 118; the Coudor, Id. 119; the Turdus trichas, Enl. 709, 



2. The Terat-botdan {Tardus orientalis, Gm. Enl. 273, 2) approximates this group 

 to the straight-billed Shrikes. 



Add Ixos chalcocephalus, Tem. Col. 453, 1 ; — /. squammatus, lb. 2 ; — R. atriceps, Col. 

 137; and particularly T. dtspar, Col. 137, which has red cartilaginous feathers under 

 the tliroat, similar to the appendages of the wing of the Chatterer. 



X Mnicurus coronatus, Tem. Col. 113, or Tiird. Leschenaultii, Vieill. Gal. 145, or 

 Motacilla speciosa, Horsf. ; JEiiic. velatus, Tem. Col. IGO. There is quite as much 

 reason for approximating them to the straight-billed Shrikes. 



II Vieill. has changed this name into Myrmothera. 



§ Vieillot has given to these birds the name of Pitta. 



\ Such as the Pitta erythrogaster, Cuv., Enh 2X2;— P. gi gas, Tem. Col. 217 ; — 

 P. cyanoptera, Id. lb., 218; — P. superciliosa, C. — P. strepitans, Leadbeater, Col. 333. 



N.B. The Breve des Philippines, Enl. 89, is not, as Vaillant says, that of Angola, 

 Edw. 324, with the head of a Thrush artificially attached to it; we have a natural 

 specimen of the same. 



** The Azurin is not from Cayenne, as Buffon declares it to be, but from the East 

 Indies. It is the Pitta cyanura, Vieill. 153. Add Myiothera affinis, Horsf., and even 

 his Turdus cymieus, which is the Brive-bleuel, Tem. Col. 194, but which leads to the 

 straight-billed Shrikes. 



The Pitta ilwracica, Tem. Col. 76, which Messrs. Horsf and Vigors make the type 



