BROAD-TAILED BABBLER. 275 
discovered are from the warm latitudes of the old 
world; excepting one*, the Donacolim vociferans , 
which is peculiar to America. 
Independent of the foregoing characters which 
separate Bracldpus from Crateropus , the two groups 
are almost perfectly alike in the shape of their 
bills and the formation of their wings and tail. 
The latter, however, in Crateropus, is always much 
larger and broader, while the hill is either entire 
or very slightly, instead of very deeply notched. 
The bird now before us is the size of an ordinary 
thrush, with the bill considerably compressed and 
perfectly entire; the nostrils are naked, and the 
rictal bristles reach only to the aperture. The tail, 
although not very long, is fan-shaped and remark- 
ably broad, the feathers measuring nearly one inch 
across. The feet are very large, and the wings are 
shorter than the upper covers of the tail. 
The whole plumage is of a sepia brown chang- 
ing to light-grey on the rump, and from the breast 
downwards, where it is even lighter ; the tail, on 
the contrary, is almost blackish, particularly towards 
the end, where it is darker than the wings. The 
ears, space before the eyes, and tip of the chin, are 
hoary, or grey- white and unspotted, hut all the rest of 
the head, neck, and throat-feathers are dark brown, 
with a pale edging, which gives to them a scale-like 
appearance ; the belly or vent is inclined to white, 
and the flanks and under tail-covers to huff. The 
* Zool. Illus. ii. pi. 72. See also D. albolineatus, d’Orbigny, 
pi. 12, a second species Ed. 
