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with a group more in accordance with their own ; 
or, in other words, the resemblances loose that 
remoteness which was the inevitable consequence 
of our last comparison. Thus, we find, that not 
only the analogy between the fan-tailed flycatchers 
( Rhipidura ) and the babbling thrushes is perfect, 
hut that other unexpected points of analogy come 
to light in the remaining groups. The orioles 
( Oriolinw ) and the hooded flycatchers, for in- 
stance, not only are the most aberrant in all their 
characters, hut they have a peculiarity of colouring 
in the black hood which envelopes the head and 
neck of nearly all the species, which is very 
striking. The hill of Monacha carinata is much 
more like that of an oriole than of a flycatcher, 
while the plumage, again, of Monacha chrysomela, 
is almost a counterpart of that of its prototypes, — 
the Oriobxs paradiscus and the Sericulus chryso- 
cephalus , — not only as to its colour, hut in that 
peculiar rich velvetty texture which is found in no 
other birds of these two families. The analogy 
between Meyalophus and Brachypus is not so 
strong as among the others, but both have very 
short and peculiarly feeble feet ; the weakness, 
however, of our comparison between these two last 
groups is amply made up by the strong resemblance 
of the todies to the Myotherina, as sufficiently 
expressed in the table, while the same observation 
is applicable regarding those points in which the 
typical flycatchers ( Muscicapa ) so perfectly repre- 
sent the typical thrushes ( Merulidce ). 
