AVES. 513 



Sub-genera Myzcrnis HODGS. Sp. Timalia gularis HOBSF., Myiotkera 

 ffularis TEMM. PL color. 442, fig. i, &c. 



Sub-gen. CJirysomma HODGS. Sp. Timalia hypoleuca FBANKL., DE LA- 

 FRESN., GUEB. Mag. de Zool. 1835, Ois. PI. 39, &c. 



Macronus JAKD. 

 Sp. Timalia trickorrhos TEMM. PL col. 594, fig. i. 



Jora HORSF. Bill moderate or shorter than head, compressed, 

 emarginate. Wings with first quill short, fourth, fifth and sixth 

 subequal, longest of all. Secondaries long. Tail even. 



Sp. Jora tiphia, Motacilla tiphia L., EDWABDS Birds, Tab. 79; 7oraZa/m- 

 nayi HARTL. Mayas, de Zool. 1845, Oif. PL 60, &c. Species from the 

 East Indies, Ceylon and the Sunda Islands; comp. HABTLAUB, 1. cit. 



LiotJirix SWAINS. *, Furcuria LESS. Bill shorter than head, 

 strong, compressed, emarginate, with culmen curved. Nostrils 

 basal, lateral. Bristles at the angles of mouth. Wings somewhat 

 short, rounded, with fifth and sixth quills subequal, longest of all. 

 Tarsi slender, long. Tail moderate or somewhat long. 



Sp. LiotJirix sinensis, Tanagra sincnsis GM., Parus furcatus TEMM. PI. color. 

 237, fig. i; China, Himalaya. This species, with forked tail, formed 

 originally the genus of SWAINSON, which LESSON, simultaneously with 

 him, distinguished (as a sub-genus of Parus); Traite d'Omith. p. 457. 

 Other species from central Asia, which may be added to it, have an even 

 tail, some a wedge-shaped tail, as Lioihryx chrysocephala, Musdcapa varie- 

 gata DELESSEBT, GUEB. Magas. de Zool. 1840, Ois. PI. 19. 



Mimus BOIE, Orpheus S WAINS, (add Toxostoma WAGL. and 

 Harpes GAMBEL). Bill moderate, compressed, emarginate at the 

 tip. Nostrils basal, oval, placed in a small fossa. Bristles at the 

 angle of mouth. Wings rounded, with fourth and fifth quills, 

 sometimes also sixth, subequal, longest of all. Tail elongate, 

 graduated or rounded, ample. 



Sp. Mimus polyglottus, Turdus polyglottus L., WILSON Amer. Ornith. PI. x. 

 fig. i ; the mocking-bird; back grey, whitish below; wings and tail greyish- 

 black with white on the outside. This North American bird has, with a 

 pleasing and powerful song, the ability also to learn the note of other 

 birds, and even to imitate all kinds of sound ; compare WILSON (JABDINE'S 

 edit.) I. pp. 164 176. The same ability also belongs to Mimus orpheus, 

 Turdus orpJieus L., EDWABDS Birds, PI. 78, from the West Indies, and in 



1 Leiothrix, Fauna Boreali-Amer., Birds, p. 490. 

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