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These birds inhabit the thickest underwood in the dense and lofty jungles of India and its isles. They generally 

 1 ve in small flocks of five or six individuals, and are continually hopping about the low thick brushes and underwood 

 while engaged in searching for ants, small orthoptera and other kinds of insects, on which they chiefly subsist ; at the 

 same time uttering an often repeated low twittering note. 



1. M.ptilosus Jard. & Selby, Illustr. Orn. pi. 151.— Timalia 

 trichorrbis Temm., PI. col. 594. f. 1. 



2. M. capistratus (Temm.) PI. col. 185. f. 1. 



3. M. melanothorax (Temm.) PI. col. 185. f. 2. 



4. M. pyrrhogenys (Temm.) PI. col. 442. f. 2. 



5. M. epilepidotus (Temm.) PI. col. 448. f. 2. — Type of Napo- 

 thera Boie (1835). 



6. M. grammiceps (Temm.) PL col. 448. f. 3. 



7. M. nigrocapitatus (Eytoti), Proc. Z. S. 1839. p. 103 



8. M. atriceps (Jerd.) Madr. Journ. Lit. & Sci. 1839- p. 250. 



9. M. bicolor (Less.) Rev. Zool. 1839- p. 138. 



10. M. poliocephalus (Jerd.). 



11. ? M. albogularis (Blytli), Journ. A. S. B. 1844. p. 385.— 

 Type of Setaria Blyth (1844). 



12. M. striatus (Blyth), Journ. A.S.B. 1842. p. 783. — Bra- 

 chypteryx maculatus Eyton. 



13. M. macrodactylus (Strickl.) Ann. Nat. Hist. 1844. p. 41 7- 

 — Brachypteryx albogularis Hartl. ; Type of Turdinus Myth 

 (1844). 



14. M. loricatus (Mull.) Tydsch. 1835. p. 348. 



Sclerukus Swains.* 



Bill lengthened and slender, with the culmen curved towards the tip, which is emarginated, the sides 

 compressed and the lateral margins straight ; the gonys long and ascending ; the nostrils lateral, basal, 

 with the frontal plumes advancing to the opening, which is lunate, small and exposed. Wings moderate 

 and rounded, with the third, fourth, and fifth quills equal and longest. Tail moderate, broad, and 

 rounded, with the shaft of each feather slightly projecting and rigid. Tarsi as long as the hind toe. 

 Toes lengthened and slender, with the outer toe longer than the inner, and united from the base for half 

 its length, the inner toe slightly united to the middle toe, the hind toe very long and rather slender; the 

 claws long, curved, and rather slender. 



It is in the tropical portions of America that the species of this genus are found. They live solitary in thickets, 

 hopping continually to the ground, concealing themselves in the bushes, or mounting the trunks of old trees in search of 

 the large fruit-eating ants which abound on them. 



1. S. caudacutus (Vieill.) N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. ii. p. 742., Mag. 

 de Zool. 1838. Ois. t. 10. — Tinactor fuscus Pr. Max.; Myiothera 

 longirostris Cuv. ; Oxypyga scansor Mene.tr. Me'm. de l'Acad. St. 

 Petersb. 1835. t. 11.; Sclerurus albogularis Swains. Birds of Braz. 

 pi. 78. 



2. ? S. ruficollis Swains. B. of Braz. pi. 79- 



3. S. guatemalensis (Hartl.) Rev. Zool. 1844. p. 370. 



Formicabius Bodd.f 



Bill more or less long and strong, with the culmen slightly curved, and the sides compressed to the 

 tip, which is emarginated ; the gonys rather long and ascending ; the nostrils lateral, with the opening- 

 placed anteriorly in the membranous groove. Wings moderate and rounded, with the fourth and fifth 



* Established by Mr. Swainson in 1827 (Zoological Journal, iii. p. 356.). Tinactor of the Prince of Neuwied (1831) and Oxypyga 

 of M. Menetries (1834) are synonymous. 



t Boddaert established this genus in 1783. Myrmornis of Hermann (1783), Myrmecophaga of Lace'pede (1800—1801), Myiothera 

 of llliger (1811), Myrmothera of Vieillot (1816), and Myiocinc/a of Mr. Swainson (1837), are synonymous. It embraces Cory thopms of 

 M. Sundeval (1835), and probably Ramphocinclus of Baron de Lafresnaye (1843). 



