Genus CHLOROPSIS, nobis. 



TURDUS, Gmel— PHILEDON, Cuvier.— CERTHIA, Shaw. 



Ord. II. Lnsessores ; Tribus 5 ta . Tenuirostres, Fam. 5 ta . Melliphagidae, Vigors. 

 — Ord. II. Les Passereaux ; Fam. l re . Les Dentirostres, Cuvier. — Ord. III. 

 Passeres, Latham. 



Char. Gen. — Rostrum mediocre, subgracile, teretiusculum, incurvum, acutum, basi 

 trigonuin, medio ad apicem compressum ; mandibula tomiis inclinantibus, pone 

 apicem leviter utrinsecus emarginatis ; mesorhinio carinatim elevato, angulo 

 mentali rotundato. Lingua longa apice fibrose Nares basales, laterales, mem- 

 brana nuda postice tectae. Alee rotundata? mediocres. Remige primo spurio. 

 brevissimo, secundo tertioque longioribus, quarto quintoque longissimis, subse- 

 qualibus. Cauda a?qualis, medioeris, rectricibus duodecim. Pedes insessores ,- 

 tarsi et digiti breves, externo cum medio antico, basi coalito ; hallux robustior : 

 acropodia scutulata. Ungues sulcati, compressi incurvi, hallucis validior. 



Typus genericus, Turdus cochinsinensis, Latham. 



1. he objections advanced against the formation of new genera by those who 

 are adverse to any change in the systems of the earlier writers, however ne- 

 cessary new arrangements may now be rendered by the progress of science, 

 and the great accumulation of new species and forms which have since been 

 discovered, are so ably combated, and their futility so clearly exposed, by th»- 

 arguments of the first naturalists of the age, that we deem no farther apology 

 necessary for the institution of the above genus, convinced that, in doing so, 

 we are giving facility to the study of this interesting branch of science, and 

 not, as has been asserted, throwing impediments in the way of its cultivation, 

 at the same time contributing to the establishment of those luminous and 

 philosophical views, with respect to the classification and arrangement of the 

 different departments of natural history, which, as far as they regard Ornitho- 

 logy and Entomology, have already been so convincingly advocated by the 

 writings of our own countrymen, 

 [a, pl. 5.] 



