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palpably developed. TMliinated, unplumed, nares, with a large adpressed 

 membranous teci? are those of Sihia. So are the feet ; which latter, however, 

 agree suffit^iently well with those of Cinclosoma*' 



The species is, in fact, osculant between Cinclosoma and Sihia. Size, 

 ^ inches long by 10 wide, and H to If oz. in weight. Tarsus 1^ ; central toe 



11 ; hind toe ; wings not bowed ; 5 and 6 quills longest : tail firm but 

 gradated, 1^^ inch in the extreme laterals. q / / 



Species 2nd. Cinc. Albigula, white throated Cinclosoma, Mihi. 



Above, and the breast, dull olive : belly, vent and under tail-coverts, 

 rusty : chin to breast, inferiorly, and terminal \ of the lateral rectrices, pure 

 white ; bill dusky : iris glaucous : orbitar skin green : legs plumbeous grey, 



12 inches long by 15 broad ; and 3f oz. in weight. 



N. B. This species, like Leucolopha, has much the appearance of a 

 Jay : but it possesses in a high degree, all the characteristics of Cinclosoma^ 

 of which more is said in the sequel. 



Nares ovoid or elliptic, and frequently quite hidden by the frontal zone. 



Species Srd, Cinc. grisauris, grey-eared Cinclosoma, Mihi. 



Above, save the neck, olive, with a rusty smear : neck, throat and 

 flanks, pale rusty ; rest of body below, white: cheeks, ears and lores grey, 

 enclosed by two narrow black lines which originate at the bill, and circling 

 round the eyes and ears, unite into a broad band on the sides of the neck, 

 and thence form a gorget on the top of the breast : terminal ^ of the lateral 

 rectrices doubly banded with black and white, as in Ocellata, but the bands 

 broader : bill, dull horn : legs plumbeous : iris brown : orbital skin, green- 

 ish yellow : 13 by 17 inches, weight 6 oz. 



* Exaggerated mention has been made of the feet of Cinclosoma, and some species 

 have been again separated, propter banc causam, from Cinclosoma. But in truth, the feet agree 

 most expressly with those of Pica Erythrocephala , Vagahunda, &c. It were much more wise 

 to amend the definition of Cinclosoma than thus to divide it. In no species is the thumb nearly 

 so large as the central fore digit ! The Cinclosomce are a half Corvine, half Meruline group, 

 united by their manners even when partially separated by their structure. They compose a 

 genus with sundry subgenera. B. H. H. July. 



