30 ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS. 
The first analogy (for so we shall at present term 
it) between the shrikes (Lamatite) ‘“‘1 Ae A^an 
ant-thrushes {Myotherm) is so perfect ‘^at ML Cu- 
vier, Temminck, Spix, &c. have Wended one with the 
other; while the true thrushes {Meruhdm) and the 
Oriental PUtm are still, in many systems, mduded m 
the same genus. The analogies between the three 
next, or thi aberrant groups, as is univereally the case, 
are more remote; and it is only surprising that where 
groups are so very dissimilar there can be found any 
tengible and definite points of resemblance. 
(31.) By comparing the genera of My othenncB 
^ith the genera of the ThamnophiUncB, or bush-shnkes, 
the accuracy of both will be severely tested. 
Typical genera 
Typical Genera j-nlneies. of Ant-thrushes, 
of Bush Shrikes, Analogies- Myothebinjb. 
TllAMNOPHIlINaS. . .. 
f “i -S" 
CBill lengthened; head defended by 7 
7 setacious frontal feathers. 3 
Not discovered ? ♦ * 
f Bm_ lengthened, 
Plalylophus. 
^ * Cincltis. 
abruptly hooked;^ 
r* Bill icngu>c»»e“* »»»***i'**v — 
\ wings broad, rounded, secondary ( '^iiyophonus. 
j quills and tail feathers ending in f 
/ AraonnintM. ^ 
qU— - 
fine points. 
The remarkable resemblance between the two first 
groups in each column, in structure, colour, and country, 
I vL striking; while that winch makes Vnonops a 
representation of Dasyceplmla is equally complete. Re- 
irarding the fourth, or tenuirostral, type of the bush- 
shrikes we do not feel sure that it has been discovered ; 
for although our suspicions point to the genus Coin- 
,risoma still we choose, for the present, to leave the 
Question undetermined : finally, the analogy of Myo- 
phonus to Platylophus, as rasorial types at least, admits 
of no doubt. , „ . ■ 
132 ) The last test to which we shall bring our 
arrangement of the ant-thrushes, is by comparing it 
