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question, or the Sylvia Ccerulea (Mus. Caernlea of Wilson, 2. 

 pi. 18. f. 5.), is the true typical form of the genus Culicivora. 



Chattering Flycatcher. It has, we believe, been customary with 

 most systematists to consider the Ampelis Lutea of Sparraan 

 (Mus. Carls.) as specifically the same with the Pipra Polyglotta 

 of Wilson, admirably figured in the Am. Ornithology. There 

 is, indeed, a considerable resemblance between the figures of 

 the two birds ; yet there are so many minute differences, even 

 in the colours of their plumage, that we are disposed to consider 

 they represent distinct species. 



356. Muscicapa Longipes. Lesson. This highly singular bird ap- 

 pears to hold a situation close to the European Robin, among 

 the Sylviadae. 



Muscicapa Stellata. Naturally allied to the European Robin. 



358. The Cotingas, so far as personal observations enable us to 

 judge, are solitary birds, seldom or never seen but in pairs, and 

 never pursuing insects on the wing. 



The name of Campephaga, applied to this group for no other 

 purpose but to obliterate that of Ceblephyris, previously imposed 

 by Cuvier, deserves to be erased from our systems. Much praise 

 is due to M. Temminckfor rejecting this proposed change. 



366. The Procnias Cucullata. Nob. appears, from specimens in the 

 Paris Museum, to be the same species as that described by Prince 

 Maximilian. 



373. It would have been better had some notice been taken of the 

 genus Irena. Before seeing the bird, and upon the faith of 

 descriptions, we formerly expressed a belief that it bore much 

 affinity to the Edolianae ; but specimens have since come into 

 our possession, and we wish to retract this opinion altogether. 



385. ThamnophilincB and the Mocking Bird is the type of the genus 

 Orpheus, a group we characterized in a paper sent to the 

 Zoological Journal, in 1826, but which, for some unexplained 

 reason, was withheld from the public until near twelve months 

 after. 



