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None of the recognized authorities on Brazilian Ornithology 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 " Eeview 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 Cichlopsis, we may 

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

 with the Bombycillinae, or, as we prefer to call them, the AmpelinaB, 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, differing 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 wrongly associated with Ampelis, and should be more correctly referred 

 to the Turdidas — under which head we include the Sylviidae — 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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