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MUSCICAPINA3. 
more than probable — it is all but certain. Rkipi- 
dura , in fact, possesses the whole of the rasorial 
characters excepting one, which seems transferred, 
as it were, to Megalophus, in the form of a crest ; 
at least no species has yet been discovered, among 
the fan-tailed flycatchers, which possesses this 
ornament. 
Let us now institute another comparison, by 
which, probably, what we have just advanced on 
the analogies of this family will in some degree be 
confirmed. Every ornithologist must be struck 
with the resemblance between theBabblingThrushes 
( Cratcropus ) and the Fan-tailed Flycatchers ( llhi - 
pidura). We will therefore bring the circles in 
which these two groups occur into comparison, and 
by placing them opposite one another, ascertain whe- 
ther a resemblance may be traced in all the other 
groups of which these two circles are composed. 
Circle of the 
Flycatchers. ANALOGICAL character. 
Circle of the 
Thrushes. 
Rhipidura 
Monachal. 
I 
{ 
Megalophus. 
Todus 
\ 
Muscicapa., 
Feet large ; tail long, very ) 
broad, soft, and fan- > 
shaped j 
Bill cylindrical, the sides ) 
compressed J 
Feet small, short, weak. 
Wings and tail very short, T 
and rounded ; legs long, > 
slender ; toes often united j 
Wings long; feet moderate; ) 
the toes free C 
CrateropodimB. 
Oriolince. 
.BrachypodincB, 
Myothcrince. 
Merulina. 
Here the analogies of the flycatchers become much 
more definite, simply because they are compared 
