CHAR. Legs moderate. Nostrils oval, with wide naked membrane above and
to some extent behind them; the frontal feathers not reaching to their
border, and rather soft. Wings graduated, shorter than the somewhat
broad, fan-shaped tail; the first quill nearly half the second. Adults
plain.
Although we find it convenient for the present to retain the genera
_Ptilogonys_ and _Myiadestes_ in the same subfamily, there seems
little doubt that they belong to very different families, the latter
being more properly placed in _Turdidæ_, as shown in Rev. Am. Birds.
It is not necessary that the subject be discussed here, however, and
we merely give the diagnosis of the two groups of which these genera
are the types respectively:—
Ptilogonateæ. Tarsi scutellate anteriorly; not longer than middle
toe and claw.
Myiadesteæ. Tarsi with a continuous plate anteriorly; longer than
middle toe and claw.