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Others have a slender, sharp beak, which, with their ebRat ee tail, 
approximates them to the Wren.(1) 
The Orrnonyx, Tem. may be approximated to the Ant- catchers. 
They have the beak of a Thrush, but, it is short and slender;, their 
legs are long, the nails almost straight, and the quills of the tail. 
terminate in a point like those of the Creepers. ) 
We must also separate from the Thrushes: 
Cincius, Bechst.(2) 
Or the Water-Thrushes, which have a compressed, straight beak, 
with mandibles of an equal height, nearly linear, and becoming 
sharp near the point; the upper one hardly arcuated. There is but 
one in Europe. ° 
Sturnus cinclus, L.; Turdus cinclus, Lath.; Enl. 940; Vieill. 
Gal. 152. (The Water Thrush.) Legs rather long, and a short 
tail, which approximate it to the Ant-catchers. It is brown, 
with a white throat and breast, and has the singular habit of 
descending into the water, not swimming, but walking about on 
the bottom in search of the little animals which constitute its 
food. 
Africa, and the countries bordering on the Indian Ocean, produce 
a genus of birds neighbours of the Thrushes, which I call 
nophilus stellaris, Spix, 39;—Thamn. myotherinus, Id.42. The M. leucophris, Tem. 
Col. 448, although from Java, seems to approach this group.. The Brachypteryx 
montana, Horsf. Jay. also approximates to it in the height of its legs, but its tail is 
longer in proportion, and the beak is somewhat allied to that of the Saxicolz. 
(1) Such are the Bambla (Turd. bambla), Eni. 703; the Arada (T. cantans), Enl. 
706, 2. Here comes the genus Ruamrnoceng, Vieill. 9, 128. , 
We are compelled, however, to replace among the Thrushes, several species 
which Buffon arranged with the Ant-catchers, on account of some relative simi- 
larity of colour, viz. the Carillonneur (T. tintinnabulatus), Enl. 700, 2;—the Merle 
a cravatte (T. cinnamomeus), Enl. 560, 2;—those of the pl. Enl. 644, 1 and 2, which, 
contrary to all appearances, he considers as varieties of the formicivorus. I place 
in the same class the Thamnophilus griseus, Spix, 41, 1 and 48, 2 ;—striatus, Id., 
40, 2;—melanogaster, 1d., 43, 1. The Myothera capistrata, melanothorax, Tem. 
Col. 185, {and M. obsoleta, Bonap. I, p. 1, 2. Am. Ed.]. We must also send back to 
the Thrushes, notwithstanding their smallness, the long-tailed species, called by 
Buffon Fourmilliers rossignols (T. coroya and T: alapi, Gm.), Enl. 701, as well as 
the Myiothera malura, Natterer, Col. 953 and the M. ferruginea and rufimarginata, 
Col. 132, which are even closely allied to the 7' punctatus and grammiceps;—the 
M. gularis and pyrrhogenis, Tem. 442, 448. 
The Myiothera mentalis and strictothorax, Natterer, 179, appear to me should be 
placed among the Shrikes. There is no group which has been more overloaded 
with species foreign to it, than that of the Ant-catchers. We must confess, how- 
ever, that it is not more rigorously limited than the other groups of the Dentirostres. 
(2) Vieillot has changed this name into that of Hrprosara. 
