None of the recognized authorities on Brazilian Omithology speak of it, and not one of the 

 specimens of this bird that we have examined has any definite locality attached to it. These 

 specimens, we may observe, are only three in number — a skin in Mr. Sclater's collection 

 purchased of a dealer in Leeds — which is represented in our figure, and also formed the 

 subject of Professor Baird's remarks in his " Review of American Birds," and one example in 

 each of the Museums of Berlin and Philadelphia. 



As regards the difficult question of the correct systematic position of CicMoims^ we may 

 say that we share in the doubts already expressed by Professor Baird* as to its having much to do 

 with the Bombycillinse, or, as we prefer to call them, the Ampelinse, to which group Dr. Cabanis 

 has referred the genus. There can, indeed, be no doubt that Cichlopsis is very closely allied 

 to Myiadestes^ of which it possesses all the most prominent characters, difieiing only in the 

 longer and much stouter bill, and more uniform style of plumage. So that wherever Myiadestes 

 is to be placed, Cichlopsis must go next to it. And, as we shall presently point out, in referring 

 to figures of some of the latter group, which we propose to give in our next number, Myiadestes 

 appears to have been wi-ongly associated with Ampelis^ and should be more correctly referred 

 to the Turdidse — under which head ^we include the Sylvidse — being more nearly allied to 

 Sialia than to any other American form of this family. 



* Eev. Am. B. p. 417. 



May, 1867. 



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