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they not serve, in a remarkable manner, to connect the Merulince and 

 the Crateropodinx ? 



They are common to all the three regions of Nipdl, and never quit 

 the woods. They perch freely, but are usually on the ground. Their 

 stomachs are feebler than in Tesia, and they do not take seeds or 

 gravel. From the number of insect nests and larva? found in their 

 stomachs, I have called the genus Larvivora. 



Crateropodin.*:. Paludicola, nobis. Sijimya of the Nipalese. 

 Habitat central and lower regions. 



Character : — Bill scarcely longer than the head, stout, hard, entire, 

 much higher than broad, sub-arcuated throughout, with both tips in- 

 clined downwards and obtuse. Tomise, beyond the nares, deeply 

 locked, trenchant and scarpt internally. 



Nares, meruline, but nearly or wholly hid by setaceous plumuli. 

 Rictus, smooth. Frontal and chin plumes rather rigid. Wings, feeble, 

 rounded and bo-ved ; primaries and tertiaries equal ; fifth and sixth 

 quills longest and sub-equal ; the three first conspicuously gradated. 

 Tail short, square, and bowed, not feeble. Tarsi very elevate, slender, 

 nearly or quite smooth. Toes compressed and meruline ; outer fore 

 connected beyond the joint, hind sub- equal to inner fore, considerably 

 less than the central fore, not depressed. Nails straightened and 

 blunt ; hind largest. Knees nude, tibiae plumose. 



Remai'k. These birds never quit the forests, and usually adhere to 

 those parts of them which abound in thick low brush-wood. They 

 &eldom perch save at night, and then only on low bushes. They feed 

 principally in swamps and rills, upon the hard insects proper 

 to such sites. Berries and seeds they seldom or never touch : 

 and the sand occasionally met with in their stomachs is proba- 

 bly taken unintentionally. Their tongue and intestines resemble 

 those of the Thrushes proper, with only a considerable increase 

 in the length of the intestinal canal, which is sometimes 30 inches 

 long. They fly so ill and are so stupid that I have seen them taken 

 by a single man. They are much allied in manners and in structure 

 to the Myotherine Pitta, but they appear to me, upon the whole, 

 to belong to the Crateropodince*, though I apprehend that the details 

 of that sub-family call for much further investigation on the part of 

 its able institutor, who, I am persuaded, will discover that Cinclosoma 

 and Pomatorhinus constitute large and independent groups or genera, 

 distinguished by marked peculiarities both of habits and of structure. 

 Species new. Paludicola Nipalensis , nobis. 

 Bodv, wings and tail, superiorly dark obscure green, shaded with 



* Richardson's North American birds, page 156. At page 488, Mr. Swain- 

 *on is disposed to make Cinclosoma and Pomatorhinus sub genera of Crateropus I 



