. A dictionary of birds . s as]Sfilaus,Laniarius and Telephonus, Pachycej^halinai—of which Falcunculusmay serve as an example, Laniinm andVireoninse. Of these doubts may beespecially entertained as to the affinityof the first and last. He, but for thecrude plan to which he was compelledto conform, would not have separatedStrepem from Gymnorhina, but theformer had been already included, to ,1 , . p .1 1 . J. ™ 4-1,,^ Falcunculus. (After Swainson.) the exclusion of the latter, among tne Corvidx, and even placed among the normal Corvinie. The needof exercising reserve on this matter has been befo
. A dictionary of birds . s as]Sfilaus,Laniarius and Telephonus, Pachycej^halinai—of which Falcunculusmay serve as an example, Laniinm andVireoninse. Of these doubts may beespecially entertained as to the affinityof the first and last. He, but for thecrude plan to which he was compelledto conform, would not have separatedStrepem from Gymnorhina, but theformer had been already included, to ,1 , . p .1 1 . J. ™ 4-1,,^ Falcunculus. (After Swainson.) the exclusion of the latter, among tne Corvidx, and even placed among the normal Corvinie. The needof exercising reserve on this matter has been before stated (Crow,p. 116); but the number of ornithologists who think that thesetwo genera should be j)laced in different Families must be small. extreme to the other can be found. The differences wlien compared with tlioseobservable in other animals are, as a whole, too slight to justify the epithet polymorphic to L. excuUtor as a species ; but enough has been said to shewthat it indicates a tendency in that 846 SHUFFLE- WING—SISKIN The view taken by the late Prof. Parker seems to be the mostreasonable: these genera — doubtless with others and most ofthem Australian—are morphologically inferior to the true Corvidai,and perhaps deserve some such designation as that of ^^ Noto-Coracomorjyhai suggested by him (Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 327).^At the same time their relationship to the Laniidai appears to beevident, and they may perhaps be best regarded as the less-altereddescendants of an old type, whence both the true Crows and thetrue Shrikes have sprung, each to develop into higher morphological
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