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effected by certain Indian species of Drymoica which 
have the depressed and bristled bill of Cudlicivora. 
(71.) The analogies which the preceding five genera 
exhibit to the tribes of perchers are singularly inter- 
esting, since we find that Drymoica and Prinea re- 
present the scansorial birds, and, consequently, the 
common wren of Europe. In Orthotomus, we have the 
long bill of the Tenuirostres, with the lengthened feet 
of the genera T'richas, Agrobates, Anthus, and Mota- 
cilla. The situation of the subgenus Apalis* is some- 
what doubtful, but it may probably belong to Orthoto- 
mus,  Culicivora, with which we began this subfamily, 
from its resemblance to the true flycatchers (Musci- 
capide), is clearly the fissirostral type. 
(72.) The Pamometin#, or nightingale warblers, form 
the fourth great division of this family. It contains 
the nightingale, the reed and sedge warblers, and many 
other of our summer visiters. The general size of 
these birds is larger, and their structure much stouter, 
than those we have just quitted; while the true warblers 
feed only upon insects, and thereby resemble the rapa- 
cious birds, the nightingale warblers, like the thrushes, . 
subsist equally upon fruits, and still further typify that 
family in the well-known melody and strength of their 
song. The first genus which presents itself is Curruca, 
while Philomela, Phenicura, and Agrabates, are the 
only genera we have yet made out: the fifth is probably 
represented by two or three extraordinary flycatching 
warblers, shown to us by M. Ruppell, as part of his 
recent discoveries in Abyssinia, and which he errone- 
ously thought belonged to the Australian genus Monacha 
(Drymophila Tem.) The sedge warblers of Europe 
(Curruca) form a large and interesting group, containing 
several minor divisions or subgenera, whose natural 
affinities require much study. Marshy thickets, reedy 
_banks -of rivers, and similar humid situations, are the 
favourite haunts of these plain-coloured birds. The 
nightingales (to which we now restore the classic name 
. * Zool. Ul. ii. pl. 119. 
