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THRUSH. 



GENUS XXXIX— CHATTERER. 



1 European Chatterer 



2 Carolina 



3 Purple-breasted 



4 Spotted-breasted 



5 Purple-throated 



6 Blue-breasted 



7 Caruuculated 



8 White 



9 Black-headed 

 10 Azure 



11 Paraguan 



12 Silky 



13 Red 



14 Annumbi 



15 Variegated 



16 Cupreous 



17 Crested 



18 Crimson 



19 Cinereous 



20 Pompadour 



21 Grey 



22 White-winged 



23 Piauhau 



24 Red-breasted 



25 Lindo 



20 Red-winged 



27 Murasing 



28 Umbrella 



1>ILL straight, convex, broad at the base, bending towards the 

 point ; near the end of the upper mandible a small notch. 



Nostrils, for the most part, hid in the bristles. 



Middle toe connected with the outer at the base. 



The greater part natives of America. 



In retaining the birds arranged under this Genus, some latitude 

 must be allowed. As to the first and second Species, authors have 

 much varied in their sentiments. Linnaeus at first ranked them with 

 his Shrikes ; afterwards he connected them with the Chatterers, in 

 which he has been followed by most writers. M. Brisson makes a 

 Genus of the two, by the name of Bombycilla, and M. Temminck 

 does the same under that of Bombycivora : whilst Frisch, Klein, and 

 others, join them with the Thrushes. There is, however, a certain 

 flatness or depression, as well as a greater or less degree of breadth, 

 at the base of the bill, in all we have mentioned under this head ; so as 

 to excuse, if not justify, the forming several into a separate Genus, as 

 will be observed among our synonyms : but for the sake of being 

 better understood, by the favourers of the Linnaean arrangement, and 

 our present system, we have continued the names formerly given to 

 the respective Species, not omitting to mark the sentiments of others, 

 leaving the reader to form his own opinion. 



