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OBSERVATIONS ON 



Coronata, are among the typical examples quoted to illustrate 

 this very natural group. 



338. Platyrliynchiis Coronatus. This is the Muscicapa Coronata of 

 p. 332. The reference to tlie Ency. Meth. p. 192. 2. is cor- 

 rect, but the figure in the PI. Enl. 453, f. i. represents a bird 

 belonging to a different genus. 



345. Muscicapa Hirundinea. Rein. (Obscura. Horsf.) belongs to the 

 Thamnophilinse. 



347. We have seen no example of the genus Muscicapa, as restricted 

 by M. Cuvier, from New Holland. 



350. Muscicapa Saya. Bonap. 



Is, we believe, the same as the Tyrannula Pallida of the last 

 page ; the first specific name, on the score of priority, will 

 supersede the other. 



351. Our Setophaga Ruticilla is the same as the Muscicapa Ruti- 

 cilla of preceding authors. This we have distinctly expressed, 

 both in the paper which first notifies this new group, (Phil. Mag. 

 June 1827, p. 367,) and in that which details its characters. 

 (Zool. Journ. No. 11, p. 360.) 



The description, here purporting to be that of our Setophaga 

 Ruticilla, is that of our S. Miniata. Ph. Mag. 1. c. p. 367. A 

 better acquaintance with this group induces us to consider it 

 as a very conspicuous genus, whose true affinities are to be 

 found among the Flycatching Warblers, in the family of 

 Sylviadse. 



354. Muscicapa Stenura. 



This bird is mentioned (Zool. Journ. No. 10, p. 359) as the 

 type of the Culicivoree. In all aberrant groups it becomes ex- 

 tremely diflRcult to detect the typical form from among those 

 which pass into the conterminous groups, on the right and on 

 the left ; and those, also, which constitute the passage into an 

 adjoining circle of higher value. As we shall have, elsewhere, 

 occasion to enlarge upon this peculiarity in natural arrangement, 

 it may be sufficient to state our doubts, whether the bird in 



