AMPELIDA. — LEIOTRICHANA. —- VIREOINE. 249 
Legs slender, black. Tarsus and middle toe equal. 
Lateral toes and claws of the same length and size. 
A. aquaticus. North. Zool. pl. 44. 
Famiry AMPELIDE. Fruit-eaters, or Chatterers. 
Bill short; base broad ; sides compressed ; the tip notched 
and sometimes hooked. The gape very wide, opening 
beyond the eyes. Feet short, or long and very weak: 
the toes more or less united ; the soles flat. Inhabit 
Tropical America only.* 
Suzsram. LEIOTRICHANZ., Silky Chatterers. ? 
Legs large, robust, syndactyle. Hind toe longer ‘than 
the outer. Wings short, and rounded. Bill strong: 
the gonys ascending. 
Leiorurix, Sw. (fig. 215.) Bill 
much compressed. Culmen 
gradually curved. Nostrils 
large, membranaceous. ‘Tail 
moderate, deeply ep Ps, 
L. furcatus. . Col. 287. f. 1. India. 
Prervutuius, Sw. ie 216.) 
Bill short, compressed, thick ; 
the tip shrike-like, hooked: 
culmen arched : gonys ascend- 
ing. Nostrils basal ; the aper- 
ture round. Gape ae Rictus 
slightly bristled. Wings very short, padi Tail 
short, broad, rounded ; the tips obtuse. Tarsi 
smooth, pale. 7 : 
P. erythropterus. Gould’s Cent. pl. 11. India. 
Susram. VIREOINZ. Greenlets and Thickheads. 
Bill generally lengthened, moderately strong, compress- 
ed ; somewhat shrike-like: the gonys ascending; the 
tip hooked. Nostrils and mouth with setaceous hairs. 
Wings more or less pointed. ‘Tail moderate, even, or 
* Excepting Pardalotus, the Letotrichane, Pachycephaius, and Calyp- 
tomina. ap 
