[284]

The American Redstart is Setophaga ruticilla (Mniotiltidae), the Cape Robin is Cossypha caffra, the Indian Robin Thamnobia, the New Zealand Robin Miro.

[285]

Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. vii. 1883, pp. x. xi. (Timeliidae).

[286]

For new British species, see Saunders, Manual Brit. Birds, 2nd edition, 1897-9.

[287]

Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. viii. 1883, p. 89. The Gymnorhininae belong to the group Austro-coraces or Noto-coracomorphae, if such be admitted; i.e. to the apparently generalized forms whence the Corvidae (p. [557]) and perhaps the Laniidae, have sprung.

[288]

H. Gadow, Bronn's Thier-Reich, Aves, Syst. Theil, 1893, p. 281.