246 BIRDS. 
Other Thrushes, with brilliant plumage, have the feathers of the occi- 
put pointed like the Starling; they are the Srournes or LAMPROTORNIS 
of Temminck*. 
Some of them have so slender a bill, that they approach the Saxicole— 
(the Turpoiwes, or Ixos, Temm.}); others, again, have a slender but 
strong and straight bill, and among them are some with a widely forked 
tail (Enicurzs), T.t 
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 1’Acad. de 
Munich, 1812, pl. viii. 
The CriniceR, Temm., comprehends those Thrushes which have 
very strong setz on the bill, and whose feathers on the back of the neck 
sometimes have a setaceous termination. Such is the Criniger barbatus, 
Col. 88. 
Buffon has very properly separated from the Thrushes, the 
Myoruera,|| Ldlig. 
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 4]. We must 
also add. the dzurin—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. 
I. pl. Lxxiiii—_amprotornis metallicus, Tem. Col. 266. We should distinguish the 
Lampr. erythrophris, on account of its beautiful red eye-brows formed of cartilagi- 
nous feathers, 
+ Such are the Podobé (T. eryihropterus, Gm.), Enl. 834.—The Janfredic, Vaill. 
Afr. 111; the Grivetin, Id. 118; the Coudor, Id. 119; the Turdus trichas, Enl. 709, 
2. The Terat-boulan (Turdus orientalis, Gm. Enl. 273, 2) approximates this group 
to the straight-billed Shrikes. 
Add Ixos chaleocephalus, Tem. Col. 453, 1;—I. squammatus, Ib. 2;—R. atriceps, Col. 
137; and particularly 7. dispar, Col. 137, which has red cartilaginous feathers under 
the throat, similar to the appendages of the wing of the Chatterer. 
{ @nicurus coronatus, 'Tem. Col. 118, or Turd. Leschenaultii, Vieill. Gal. 145, or 
Motacilla speciosa, Horst.; Ainic. velatus, Tem. Col. 160. ‘There is quite as much 
reason for approximating them to the straight-billed Shrikes. 
|| Vieill. has changed this name into MyrMorueERa. 
§ Vieillot has given to these birds the name of Pirra. 
§{ Such as the Pitta erythrogaster, Cuv., Enl. 212;—P. gigas, Tem. Col. 217;— 
P. cyanoptera, Id. Ib., 218;—P. superciliosa, C.—P. strepitans, Leadbeater, Col. 333. 
N.B. The Bréve 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. Itis the Pitta cyanura, Vieill. 153. Add Myiothera afnis, Horst., and even 
his Turdus cyaneus, which is the Bréve-bleuet, Tem. Col. 194, but which leads to the 
straight-billed Shrikes. 
The Pitta thoracica, Tem. Col. 76, which Messrs. Horsf, and Vigors make the type 
