. On the natural history and classification of birds . is clearly that of a thrush, while the legs place it among 26 ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS. the Myotherince, of which it seems to be the rasorial sub-genus, both on account of its size, its crest, and its affi-nity to Myophonus: there are two or three species, allnatives of India. The genus Myothera, on the otherhand, chiefly restricted to tropical America, and com-prises numerous species of a small size, clothed indark colours, but prettily variegated with white: al-though distinctly separated from the oriental group bytheir abruptly ho
. On the natural history and classification of birds . is clearly that of a thrush, while the legs place it among 26 ON THE CLASSIFICATION OF BIRDS. the Myotherince, of which it seems to be the rasorial sub-genus, both on account of its size, its crest, and its affi-nity to Myophonus: there are two or three species, allnatives of India. The genus Myothera, on the otherhand, chiefly restricted to tropical America, and com-prises numerous species of a small size, clothed indark colours, but prettily variegated with white: al-though distinctly separated from the oriental group bytheir abruptly hooked and strongly toothed bill, theyare yet so intimately allied to the small bush-shrikes(ThamnophilincB), that it is almost impossible to drawa distinction between them: to this point, however,•we shall presently return. Of all the tribes of insectswhich swarm in the tropics the ants are the most nu-merous ; they are the universal devastators, and in thedry and overgrown forests of the interior the travellercan scarcely proceed five paces without
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