64 _ ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS. + 
of Philomela) represent the typical perfection of t hi 
subfamily: their own particular circle has not bee! 
worked out, but it will comprise not only the nightingale 
but the white-throated and the black-capped warbler 
of Britain ; these latter assuming much of the appear-=_ 
ance, while they are perfectly analogous to the tits 
(Parus). From these we pass to the genus Phenicura 
Sw., familiar to every one by the frequency of our native 
example the redstart ( fig. 136.) ; nearly all the species, in 
136 pray fact, have the tail of a 
(,@y  >bright chestnut or a 
colour. The tenuirostral 
type appears to us to be 
_- represented by the Sylvia 
Gi galactotes of Europe, which 
is evidently a walking bird, 
(=> and perfectly analogous 
2 Dal to Furnarius, Motacilla, 
and the other long-legged warblers representing the 
Grallatores. | 
(73.) The analogies which may be traced between 
this group and many others, are no less striking than 
those of the last. They are, in fact, so numerous, 
that we hardly know where to select our illustrations: 
the best, perhaps, will be to compare this with the 
neighbouring group of true thrushes: we thus find 
the nightingale represented by the famous mocking 
bird of America (Orpheus); the Curruca Meruloides 
Sw. by the typical thrushes; and the red-tailed rock 
thrushes (Petrocincia ), by thered-tailed redstarts. Again, 
on looking to the Sylviane (the subfamily we have 
just quitted), we see the soft tail of Malurus trans- 
ferred to the reed warblers (Curruca), while the 
wood wrens (Sylvia) and the nightingales are both 
characterised by even tails: the broad rounded form of 
this member, in Culicivora and Phenicura, is another 
very curious analogy ; and the resemblance of Agrabates 
to Furnarius is obvious to every ornithologist. i 
(74.) The Saxiconin.#, or stonechats, represent ap | 
