. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. if. 154 ROCKY MOUNTAIN ANTCATCIIER. The bird now before us was brought from the Arkansas river, in the neighborhood of the Rocky Mountains, by Major Long's exploring party, and was described by Say unslcr the name of Troglodytes obso- h'ta, from its close resemblance to the Carolina Wren [Troglodytes Ludovicianns), which Wilson considered a Certhia, and Vieillot a Thryothorus. » As the Rocky Mountain Antcatcher is the first and only species hitherto discovered in North America, we sha
. American ornithology, or, The natural history of the birds of the United States [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. if. 154 ROCKY MOUNTAIN ANTCATCIIER. The bird now before us was brought from the Arkansas river, in the neighborhood of the Rocky Mountains, by Major Long's exploring party, and was described by Say unslcr the name of Troglodytes obso- h'ta, from its close resemblance to the Carolina Wren [Troglodytes Ludovicianns), which Wilson considered a Certhia, and Vieillot a Thryothorus. » As the Rocky Mountain Antcatcher is the first and only species hitherto discovered in North America, we shall make some general observations or the peculiarities of a genus thus introduced into the Fauna of the United States. Buffon first formed a distinct group of the Antcatchers under the name of Fourmilicrs, and considered them as dlied to his Breves, now forming the genus Pitta of Vieillot, they having been previously placed in that of Turdus. Lac<^i)5(le adopted that group as a genus, and applied to it the name of Myrmrcophnga. Illiger aildcd such species of the genus Lanius of Liniid and Latham, as are destitute of promi- nent teeth to the bill, and gave to the genus thus constituted the name of 3Iy)otJiera; rejecting Lac^pSde's designation, as already appro- priated to a genus of Mammalia. Cuvier perceived that some of the Fourniiliers of Buffon were true Thrushes; but he retained the remainder as Myiothcrcv, among which he'also included the Pittce. Vieillot, besides the Pittce, removed some other species, in order to place them in bis new genera Conopophaga and TamnnphiluK, giving the name of Myrmothcni to the remaining species, with the exception of-the Myiothrra rex, for which he forme(l a distinct genus, with the name of Grallaria. AVe agree with Vieillot, in respect to the latter binl; but as reganls the other species, we prefer the arrangement of Temminck, who has adopted the genus Myinthera nearly as constituted by Illiger, including some of the slender-billed Tamn
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