FORMICA RINJt, 
These birds inhabit the thickest underwood in the dense and 
live in small flocks of five or six individuals, and are continually hopping 
while engaged in searching for ants, small orthoptera and other kinds of insects. 
same time uttering an often repeated low twittering note. 
1. M. ptilosus Jard. & Selby, Illustr. Orn. pi. 151. — Timalia 
trichorrhis Temm., PI. col. 594. f. 1. 
2. M. capistratus (Temm.) PL col. 185. f. 1. 
3. M. melanothorax (Temm.) PI. col. 185. f. 2. 
4. M. pyrrhogenys (Temm.) PI. col. 442. f. 2. 
5. M. epilepidotus (Temm.) PI. col. 448. f. 2. — t ype of Napo- 
thera Boie (1885). 
6. M. grammiceps (Temm.) PI. col. 448. f. 3. 
7. M. nigrocapitatus (Eyton), Proc. Z. S. 1839- p. 103 
8. M. atriceps (Jerd.) Madr. Journ. Lit. & Sci. 1839- p. 250. 
lofty jungles of India and its isles. They generally 
about the low thick brushes and underwood 
on which they chiefly subsist ; at the 
9- M. bicolor (Less.) Rev. Zool. 1839- p. 138. 
10. M. poliocephalus (Jerd.). 
11. ? M. albogularis (Blytli), Journ. A. S. B. 1844. p. 385. 
Type of Setaria Blyth ( 1 844). 
12. M. striatus (Blyth), Journ. A.S.B. 1842. p. 783. — Bra- 
chypteryx maculatus Eyton. 
13. M . macrodactyhis (Strickl.) Ann. Nat. Hist. 1844. p. 417- 
— Brachypteryx albogularis Hartl. ; Type of Turdinus Sty^ 
(1844). 
14. M. loricatus (Mull.) Tydsch. 1835. p. 348. 
Scleruru s Swains.* 
Bill lengthened and slender, with the culmen curved towards the tip, which is emarginated, the sides 
compressed and the lateral margins straight ; the gonys long and ascending ; the nostrils lateral, basah 
with the frontal plumes advancing to the opening, which is lunate, small and exposed. Wings moderate 
and rounded, with the third, fourth, and fifth quills equal and longest. Tail moderate, broad, a) 
rounded, with the shaft of each feather slightly projecting and rigid. Tarsi as long as the hind toe- 
Toes lengthened and slender, Avith the outer toe longer than the inner, and united from the base foi 
its length, the inner toe slightly united to the middle toe, the hind toe very long and rather slender j 
claAvs long, curved, and rather slender. 
It is in the tropical portions of America that the species of this genus are found. They live solitary in tbK ^ < o p 
hopping continually to the ground, concealing themselves in the bushes, or mounting the trunks of old tiees in 
the large fruit-eating ants which abound on them. 
1. S. caudacutus (Vieill.) N. Diet. d’Hist. Nat. ii. p.742., Mag. 
de Zool. 1838. Ois. t. 10. — Tinaetor fuscus Pr. Max.; Myiothera 
longirostris Cuv. ; Oxypyga scansor Menie.tr. Mem. de l’Acad. St. 
Petersb. 1835. t. 11.; Sclerurus albogularis Swains. Birds of Braz. | 
pi. 78. 
2. ? S. ruficollis Swains. B. of Braz. pi. 79- 
3. S. guatemalensis (Hartl.) Rev. Zool. 1844. p. 370- 
Formicaries Bodd. f 
the 
Bill more or less long and strong, Avith the culmen slightly curved, and the sides compiesst d 
tip, which is emarginated ; the gonys rather long and ascending ; the nostrils lateral, Avith the 1 ^ 
placed anteriorly in the membranous groove. Wings moderate and rounded, with the fouith 
a oxypy ga 
Tinaetor of the Prince of Neuwied (1 831 ) ant 
+ Boddaert established this genus in 1783 Myrmornis of Hermann (1783), Myrmecophaga of Lacepede (1800- 1 8® (joryth°P s * s ° 
of Illiger (1811), Myrmothera of Vieillot (1816), and Myiocincla of Mr. Swainson (1837), are synonymous. It em laces 
M. Sundeval (1835), and probably Itamphocinclus of Baron de Lafresnaye (1843). 
* Established by Mr. Swainson in 1827 ( Zoological Journal, iii. p. 356.). 
of M. Menetries (1834) are synonymous. 
