AMPELIDjE. LEIOTBICHAN-B. VIRBOIN®. 249 
Legs slender, black. Tarsus and middle toe equal. 
Lateral toes and claws of the same length and size. 
A. aquaticus. North. Zool. pi. 44. 
Family AMPELIDiE. Fruit-eaters, or Chatterers, 
Bill short ; base broad ; sides compressed; the tip notched 
and sometimes hooked. The gape very wide, opening 
beyond the eyes. Feet short, or long and very weak: 
the toes more or less united ; the soles flat. Inhabit 
Tropical America only.* 
ScBCAM. LEIOTRICHANiE. Silky Chatterers. ? 
Legs large, robust, syndactyle. Hind toe longer than 
the outer. Wings short, and rounded. Bill strong : 
the gonys ascending. 
Leiothbix, Sw. 215.) Bill 
much compressed. Culmen 
gradually curved. Nostrils 
large, membranaceous. Tail 
moderate, deeply forked. 
L. furcatus. PI. Col. 28' 
Bteruthius, Sw. 21 6 .) 
Bill short, compressed, thick ; 
the tip shrike-like, hooked: 
culmen arched : gonys ascend- 
ing. Nostrils basal ; the aper- 
ture round. Gape wide. Rictus 
slighUy bristled. Wings very short, rounded. Tail 
short, broad, rounded ; the tips obtuse. Tarsi 
smooth, pale. 
P. erythropterus. Gould's Cent. pi. 11* India. 
SuBFAM. VIREOINAl. Greenlets and Thickheads. 
Bill generally lengthened, moderately strong, compress- 
ed ; somewhat shrike-like : the gonys ascending ; the 
tip hooked. Nostrils and mouth with setaceous hairs. 
Wings more or less pointed. Tail moderate, even, or 
* Excepting Pardatutus, the Lciotrichana;, Pachycephatus. and Calyp 
tomina. 
