370 ZOOLOGY. 



Ornithologicus," i. p. 357, refers to Buffon alone, and it is 

 only in the latter work, tlie " General History of Birds," 

 that he adds a reference to Le Vaillant's figure. Latham, 

 moreover, as Rtippell ought to have noticed, copies the 

 name from Gmelin, whose Turdus monacha is described 

 from Buffon's "moloxita, ou Eeligieuse d'Abyssiuie," so 

 that there can be no question of Gmelin's name applying 

 to the species. Von Heuglin's change of the name into 

 0. monachus is also inaccurate. 



0. monacha is easily distinguished from the black- 

 headed oriole of the Cape, O. larvatus, Licht. by the paler 

 colour of the quills, the edges of the secondaries being 

 pale grey instead of white. The bill, too, is shorter and 

 stouter in the northern form. 



Family CEATEEOPID^, Swainson. (TIMALID^, Bonaparte 



and Jerdon.) 



To this family I most unhesitatingly refer the Timalinw 

 of Indian writers. No one who has seen both in their 

 native state would, I think, have any hesitation on the 

 subject. But besides the African Crateropi, the Indian 

 Malacocerci, TimalicB, GarruJaces, and their allies, I 

 consider that certainly Drymceca and Cisticola, and 

 probably Prinia, Orthotomus, and the allied forms should 

 be classed here, and not in the Sylviadce, that refugium 

 peccatorum of modern ornithologists. I have stated 

 my reasons elsewhere, and need not repeat them here. 

 The Crateropi are very closely allied to the Bush 

 Shrikes, Teleplionus, Laniarius, &c. 



