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Rh edged with olive green; the chin, and throat and the sides of the breast are a sort of brick-dust red, and all the feathers of the breast are more or less tinged towards the tips with this color. (There is no mistake about this; we dissected the birds, and though some of the females have a little less red than others, they all exhibit it conspicuously.) The rest of the lower surface varies somewhat in shade in different specimens, but in all is a yellower, and paler olive green than the upper surface.

 

, New Genus.

Characters.—Bill in form like that of Stachyris, hat longer and deeper, and the section of the lower mandible very square; nostrils long, and horizontally situated in a shallow short groove; they are sheltered by a sort of teet, or small segmental projecting shelf; wings short and much rounded; the first or small quill is unusually large and reaching nearly two-thirds the length of the wing; 2nd, .40 inch longer than let; 3rd, 28 inch beyond 2nd; 11h, 2 longer than 3rd; 5th, 1 inch longer than 4th; 6th, 05 inch longer than 5th; 7th,03 inch longer than 6th, and the longest in the wing; 80h, slightly longer than 6th; and 9th, about equal to 5th, from this they gradually decrease in the usual manner of very rounded wings. These proportions appertain to a wing 2.7 inches long. The legs, feet, and claws are stout and strong, and similar to those of a Garrulax or Trochalopteron; tail much graduated, broad, and soft, of moderate length or rather short for the bird ; plumage, soft and lax, and in character like that of Gurrulax or Trochalopleron.

Description.—Color generally a pure black, spotted or streaked on the head and upper back with rufous brown; the feathers on the back, the wing coverts, and the outer webs of the quills are finely barred with the same color; the tail is also finely barred with rufous brown: the spots or small streaks on the forehead are nearly pure white, so are some down the side of the neck, reaching to the bend of the wing; most of the feathers of the upper surface are light shafted, so are thosc of the whole lower surface : 