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to the hottest parts of India, where 
they inhabit the forests. In size 
they exceed all others, save the 
genus Querula, in this family, being 
about the size of starlings ; while 
the enormous breadth of their 
bills, and the peculiar brightness 
of their colouring, renders it im- 
if \; possible for the student to mistake 
Yt them for any other genus. The bill 
|. (fig. 144.) is not only excessively 
1 | broad, but the margins of the base 
are so dilated, that they often pro- 
ject over those of the lower mandible, while its sub- 
‘stance seems much more solid than in the ordinary 
fiyeatchers. Although very few species have hitherto 
been discovered, it is quite clear that the five leading 
types have come to light, although only one example of 
the genera Serilophus, Psarisoma, and Platystoma are 
yet known. It may here be observed that, notwith- 
standing the great width of the bill in all these birds, 
‘it is nevertheless much more convex above, and in 
some instances is even more raised on the culmen, than 
any of the others: the feet, also, and the whole struc- 
ture of the body, are more robust. Hence, although the 
width of the mouth, and the great size of the head, 
would indicate this to be the pre-eminent typical group, 
‘yet all the other characters would place it as the typical. 
‘Serilophus is evidently the rasorial or crested type ; and 
it departs considerably from the others, by the only 
7 ‘Species yet known being very fond of fruits: this is in 
‘conformity with the strong and remarkable analogy it 
shows, even in its outward appearance, to the wax-winged 
chatterers (Bombycilla). 
(93.) The great subfamily of Muscicapin# is that 
which contains the ordinary flycatchers. These birds, 
in comparison to the last, are much smaller in size, 
and weaker in the whole of their conformation: none 
are so large as a sparrow; and the generality do not 
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