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9. Myothera, Illig- 
Ant Thrushes. 
Legs long. Fig. 107. bis. Tail short. 
10. CiNCLUS , Bechst. 
Water Ouzels. 
Beak compressed , 
straight, mandibles e- 
qually deep, almost in a 
line, sharpening to- 
wards the points, and 
the superior scarcely 
arched. 
11. Philedon. 
Beak compressed , 
slightly arched in its 
whole length. 
Nostrils large, co- 
vered by a cartilagi- 
nous scale tongue ter- 
minated ]>y a pencil of 
hairs. Fig. 69 and 71, 
[P. carunculata). 
Africa and the coun- 
tries bordering on the 
Red Sea. 
12. GRACUL\^O^t^.GRA- 
kles. 
Beak compressed. Feathers of the head Ditto, 
very slightly arched generally narrow and 
and notched : the com- a naked space around 
missm-e forming an an- the eye. 
gle as in the Sturnus. 
Fig. 73. G. caruncu- 
lata. 
13. M^NURA , Shaw. 
Lyre-tails. 
Beak triangular at tlie Nostrils large, meui- The males with 
base, elongated, a little branous, and partly large tails of 16' fea- 
compressed. Fig. 109. covered with feathers, thers, the 2 exterior 
curved like a lyre. (1) 
(1) They have been referred by some authors to the Gallmacece, from their 
size, but their feet are evidently those of Passeres. 
