344 Mr. P. L. Sclater on the present 
hallucis longus connected by a vinculum with the flexor digi- 
torum profundus. 
3. Todus, associated by Cabanis with Todirostrum in the 
Tyrannide, and by Sundevall with the Piprine, should be 
correctly placed, as I have already shown*, from its sternal 
characters, next to the Momotide, and has nothing to do 
with the true Passeres. The pterylosis confirms this viewf. 
4, Huryceros was formerly referred by Gray to the Buce- 
rotide, but at my suggestion, I believe, was removed in his 
last work (‘ Hand-list,’ ii. p. 21) to a much more natural posi- 
tion among the Sturnide. A glance at its feet is sufficient 
to show that it is a laminiplantar Oscine. Mr. Sharpe 
has recently included Huryceros in the heterogeneous assem- 
blage which he has united under the title of Prionopide. I 
fail to see that it has any connexion at all with the other 
genera placed in that group. 
5. Falculia, also a laminiplantar Oscine, has been hitherto 
usually associated with the Hoopoes, to which it has no sort 
of relationship (¢f. Murie, Ibis, 1873, p. 201). Itis certainly 
either a Sturnine or Corvine form; M. Milne-Edwards will 
probably soon tell us which. 
The limits of the Passeres being now ascertained with 
‘tolerable certainty, the still more difficult question of the 
subdivision of the Order presents itself. On this subject 
Garrod’s first memoir on the anatomy of the Passerine 
birds{ gives us a summary of the latest information, not 
only as regards the lamented author’s own elaborate investi- 
gations, but also as concerns the labours of previous authors. 
Garrod’s proposed system for the arrangement of the Pas- 
seres is as follows :— 
( Acromyodi joa 
; | (Oscines). } 
Passeres, 5 Abnormales. 
Menuia. 
Atrichia. 
Pipridee. 
Cotingide. 
Tracheophonee. 
Haploophone. 
Heteromeri. 
[Neereet: 
Homoeomeri. 
* This, 1872, p. 177. See also Murie, Ibis, 1872, p. 410. 
+ Nitzsch, Pterylogy. p, 89. t P.Z. 8. 1876, p. 506, 
