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‘PASSERINE. 259 
_. Musoreta, Cuv. 
The beak long, much compressed, double its height in breadth, 
even at its base; the ridge very obtuse, sometimes however very 
acute; the edges slightly curved; the point and emargination weak; 
long setz or mustachios at its base. 
They are too powerless to capture any thing but Insects, and sev- 
eral of them are ornamented with long tail feathers, beautiful crests 
on the head, or at least with brilliant colours. The greater num- 
ber inhabit Africa and the Indies. (1) ; 
Some species allied to the Muscipete, (PLaryruyncuus,) are dis- 
tinguished by a still broader and more depressed beak.(2) 
(1) We should first of all distinguish the Roi des Gobe-mouches, Buff. (Todus regius, 
Gm.) Enl. 289. Then we have the crested species, and which have long feathers 
in the tail, such as the Moucherolle de paradis (Muse. paradisi and Todus paradisia- 
cus, Gm.), Enl. 234. N.B. All these figures represent females; the tail of the 
males is much longer. —Le Petit Moatherlle de Paradis or Schet of Madagascar 
(Muse. mutata). Two birds which Buffon describes elsewhere under the name 
of Vardiole or Pie de paradis.—Then follow those species without crests, whose 
tail feathers are somewhat elongated ; The Moucher, Yetapa (Muse. psalura, T.), 
> Col. 286 ‘and 296, or Muse. risora, Vieill. 131; the Moucher 2 queue de cog; Gallita 
of J 20 ; Muse. alector, P. Max.; Col. 155, Vieill. 132.—Plathyrh. filicauda, 
Spix, 14. 
Some species are distinguished by a membranous circle round the eye : Muse. 
melanoptera, Gm.; Enl. 567, 3—M. telescophtalma, Less. and Garn., Voy. de Du- 
perr:, Zool. pl. xviii. 
Others are remarkable for a long, flat, and obtuse beak, similar to that of the 
'Todies, but it has a notch which is wanting in the true Todies, whose feet also are 
ifferently formed. 7! cinereus, Desmar. or T. melanocephalus, Spix, ix, 2. The 
young is, Z' cinereus, Spix, x, 1 and J: maculatus, Desm.—T: griseus, Desm. 
Finally, a multitude of other species, as the mantelé, Vaill. 151 or Muse. borbon- 
ted, Enl. 573, 1.—WM. cristata, 573, 2, and T'chitrec, Vaill., Afr., I, 142, 1.—Muse. 
cxrulea, Enl. 666, 1.—Todus leucocephalus, Pall., Sp., VI, pl. iii, f. 2, or Muse, dom- 
inicana, Spix, 29, 2. M. albiventer, Id. 30, is its female.—7T" sylvia, Desm—Pla- 
tyrhinchus chrysoceps, Spix, X1, 2.—Plat.. ruficauda, Ibs 1.—Plat. hirwndinaceus, 
Spix, 13, 1.—Plat. cinereus, Ib. 2.— Muse. barbata, Enl. 830, 1, of which M. xan- 
thopygus, Spix, IX, 1, appears to be the female-—Muse. coronata, Enl. 675.—The 
molenar, Vaill. 160, 1, 2, or M. pistrinaria, Vieill—The G. m. a lunettes, Ib. 152, 
1.—M. flammiceps, Tem. Col. 144, 3.—M. mystax, Spix, 31.—M. murantia, 
Enl. 331, 1—M. querula, Vieill. Am. 39, from which the Plat. cinereus, Se 
XID, scarcely differs.—WM. cucullata, Lath., &c. 
N.B. The Mus. barbata has become the genus Tyrannvra, Swainson; and 
the M. querula the Mytacra of Vigors and Horsfield. 
(2) It is from this division that M. Vicillot has made his genus Platyrhynchos, 
’ Gal. 126. Such are Muse. awrantia, Enl. 831, 1.—Todus macrorhynchos, Lath. 
Syn. I, pl. xxx, or Todus rostratus, Lath., Desmar. and particularly Todus platyr- 
hynchos, Pall., Spic., VI, pl. iii, c. We see that many of the Muscipete have 
