MYOTHEBIN^. CHLORISOMA. 
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as to appear almost cut off. As the natural arrangement 
of this division is much better understood than that of 
the last, we shall here enumerate the several types, or 
genera. 1. Myophonuti. 2. Cinclus, 3. Dasycephala. 
4. Myothera. 5. Pitta. The first may be denominated 
fowl-thrushes, since they are the largest in the whole 
family ; and the neck feathers of the typical species, 
like those of gallinaceous birds, are pointed, and very 
glossy. We know at present but of three or four spe- 
cies j but several others, departing somewhat from the 
type, appear to exist : they have hitherto been found 
only in India. The next genus. Pitta, is one of re. 
markable beauty : they have the gradually curved bill 
of the true thrushes, but much stronger; the pre- 
dominant colour of their plumage is green ; the sides of 
the head and wings being generally variegated with 
vivid blue : some species 
have a hood of black ; and 
all are confined to New 
Holland and the neigh- 
bouring isles of the Indian 
seas. America, indeed, 
presents us with a repre- 
sentation of these in the 
subgenera Gra/toriaVieil., 
and CA«weaa, Vig. ; but the 
species are very few, and 
they are coloured in the homely hues of ordinary 
thrushes. To this group, as a subgenus, we refer Chlori. 
soma {Jig. 125.), called by some writers by the barbarous 
and unmeaning name of Kitta! The bill {fig- 126.), 
is clearly that of a thrush, while the legs place it among 
