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Show 312 AVES. The feathers on th e flanks of some of them are sil.k y, a.n d singu-larly exten d e d m· t 0 bunches longer than the body, whicbh g· ive sTu cha hold to the w·m d th a t they are very often swept away y It.. here are also two b ear d ec1 filaments adherino:o:::. to the rump, which are as 1 than the feathers on the flanks.(1) long, and evend onLg~rE l 254' Vaill. Ois. de Par. pl. 1; Vieill. Ois. P apo a, . , n • ' de P' ar. p 1. I. s·t z e of a thrush·' maronne; top of the head and neck ye 11 ow; cu· ·cu mference of the beak and .t hro.a t of an erne- rald green. I t I·S the male of this species which IS ornamented w·i th those 1o ng b u ndles of yellowish feathers, employed by the lach. es as p 1u mes. There is a somewhat smaller r·a ce. f fl P. ru br a, V at·1 1 · P1 · 6 '• Vieill• pl. 3. The fascicles o ank feathers of a beautiful red, and the filaments broader and con· cave on one side. In others we stl'1 1 fi n d the filaments ' but. the feathers on the. flanks, allhough somewhat elongated, do not extend beyond the tat!. , P . reg~.a , E• n l . 496·, Vaill • 7•' Vieill. 5, and Galer. 96. Size of a finch; a fine purple maronne; white belly; a band acr~ss t h e b reas t , the tips of the flank-feathers, and the barbs whicldh widen the extremities of the two long filaments, emera . green.(2) 'll v· ·n 4 P. magnifica; Sonnerat, 98; Enl. 631; Val • 9; . tel, , Maronne above; green beneath and on the flanks; quills of ~he wings yellow· a fascicle of straw-coloured feathers on each Sid~ of the neck, 'another of a deeper yellow opposite to the fold o the wing. short Some have the slender feathers on the flanks, but they are ' and the filaments on the rump are wanting. . E P aurea Gm .• P. sexsetacea, Shaw; Sonnerat, pl. 97; n1. 635·· Vaill. '1 2· Vie' ill. 6 and Galer. 97. Size of a Th rus h ; black·' a go' lden-gl'een' spot on ' the throat; t h ree 1r ea th ers from each ebar extended into long filaments, termm. ate d b Ya sma1 1 disk of bar s of the same colour as the spot on the throat.(3) k Others again· have no filaments, nor are t h e ~e a tl1 ers of the. flan s elongated. In v· ·n 7• Ga· P 8Umerba Sonnerat 96· Enl. 632; Vaill. 14; Iel · ' · r ' ' ' 1 d how· ler. 98( 4) the feathers of the scapulars are pro onge ' the ever into ' a kind of mantlet whi. ch can b e l at. d so as to cdov re r ked wing, s, and those of the breast m· to a sor t 0 f P endent a.n h .o r ola coat-of-arms. With the exception of this latter, whtc 15 ( 1) M. Vieillot has made a genus of my first d1·V 1· ~1· 0n, wh. 'I Ch h e calls S.!H!Lii• (2) Vieillot makes his genus CINCINNURUS of this species. (3) This species constitutes the genus P AROTU., Vieill. Gal. 97. (4) This species forms the genus Lol'HORIN.A., Gal. 98. PASSEIUNJE, 313 brilliant burnished steel-green, the whole of the plumage is black. P. aurea, Sh.; Oriolus aureus, Gm.; Edw., 112; VailJ. 18; Vieill. 11, has none of the preceding extraordinary developments of plumage, and is only distinguishable by the velvet feathers which cover its nostrils. The male is of the brightest . orange; the throat, and primary quills of the wings, black; in the female, a brown takes the place of the orange.( 1) FAMILY IV. TENUIROSTRES. This family comprehends the remaining birds of the first division; those in which the beak is slender, elongated, sometimes straight, and sometimes more or less arcuated, and without any emargination. They are to the Conirostres what the Motacillre are to the other Dentirostres. StTTA, Lin. The Nuthatches have a straight, prismatic, pointed beak, compressed near the point, which they employ like the Woodpeckers to perforate the bark of trees, and in withdrawing the larvce contained in it; but their tongue is not extensible, and although they climb in every direction, they have but one toe behind, which, it is true, is a strong one. The tail is of no use in supporting them, as is the case With the Woodpeckers and True Creepers. There is but one in France. 8. europrea, L.; Enl. 623, 1; Naum. 139. (The European Nuthatch.) Bluish ash colour above; reddish beneath; a blackish band descending behind the eye; size of a Rouge-gorge.(2) (l)f refer the Parad.gularis, Lath., or nigra, Gm.; Vaill. 20 and 21; Vieill. 8, 9,and the leucoptera, Lath. to the Thrushes;-tbe Par. Ohalybrea, Enl. 633, Sonn. 97; Vaill., 23; Vieill., lO, to the Cassicans;-tbe cirrhata, Aldrov. 814, is too much mu~ated to be characterized, and-the furcata, Lath. appears to be an imperfect IJleelmen of the superba. (2) Add the 8. a BOUrcil blanc (8. canadensi8, Briss.) Enl. 623, 2;-the Black~. N. (8. cana.t:lensie, L.), Catesb., I, xxii; Vieill. Gal. 171;-S.frontalis, Swains. 8~~~~· 2, or 8. velata, Tern., Col. 72, 3, or Orthorynchus frontalis, Horsf. J:w. ; ·~HlJ¥J]Jtera, Lath., 3d Supp. 327;-8. puBilla, ld. Vot. I.-2 p |