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amnities, more particularly as I was unavoidaUy absent from the 
“rreaa '>« communication 
ctoled wpr» P^Pc'y ‘ata esception to this bird being 
ftoTa c W “ f 
the t™„ T? r ?"■' »f ‘l-o diet ami habits of 
the t „e l,t,mce with those of the so-ealle.l Beanlea lit ho is 
nobably not aware that Maegillivray, in his gmat work on ‘ British 
arJ. differing alike from Continental and British ornithologists of 
bcautiM 
,, «>o eccentric names given to many of our familiar 
I itish birds by tliat accomplisiied Naturalist have in sraicoly a 
single instance been adopted, still liis professional skill in stndjdm. 
the digestive and other internal organs of the species which cLno 
under his notice lias established his lame, and in this species he 
b Ids han the Parinin. A single specimen contained in its emp 
amZVia °an'l"f examples of Siiccnea 
of he P "■'hist, os he remarks, “none 
CanUores, has a crop, which, on the other hand, occurs, in a ereater 
or loss degree of development, in all the Deglubitores ” 
‘ibfs‘VotifGor;“ ™ *p“''*- p'-whred m the 
^decides that it has little in common Avith the Tits, but, from its 
to°thrTr°T ^Pacgillivray, is closely affined 
. uskers, and, therefore, distantly allied to its reed-bed 
till CO, mtry, and the “American genus Ammodnimus, whose ide 
o life IS very similar.” “The affinity to the Tits,” he remark 
6 A cry remote ; the bird in question has not the abrupt bristle- 
ippec ongue 0 a Tit, and its cosophagus is dilated towards the 
