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3. MYIOTHERA cxrii.ea. 



It is much larger than the former species, being above two inches 

 in length, and seven or eight in height. It is of a thick heavy 

 form, with a very short tail. The whole of the back, tail, 

 and secondary wing-feathers are light-blue. The under-parts 

 are brown, t cinereous on the throat, with a greenish tinge on 

 the breast, and a ferruginous one on the abdomen. A black 

 collar surrounds the neck immediately above the shoulders. 

 The crown of the head and back of the neck are also black, 

 and a stripe of the same colour runs along its sides from behind 

 each eye. The quill-feathers are black, with blueish tips. 

 Bill blackish, strong, rather straight, curved at the point with 

 a scarcely perceptible notch. Irids reddish. Tarse high, and 

 of a dark colour. Claw of the hind-toe longer than the others. 



The female differs so considerably from the male, that it might 

 be taken for a different species. It is somewhat smaller, of a 

 reddish-brown or chesnut-colour above, with blue only on the 

 tail and tail-coverts. Below it is of the same cinereous-brown 

 as the male, and has the same black collar round the neck, 

 and lines behind the eyes ; but the crown of the head and 

 neck have only transverse black lines on a ferruginous ground. 



Here may be mentioned a bird that appears to differ very 

 little from the Corvus Papne?isis, now referred by Cuvier to the 

 genus Lanius. It is very uniformly of a blueish-grey colour, 

 with the exception of the wing- and tail-feathers, which are black. 

 In the male the breast is often marked with transverse undula- 

 tions of a dark colour*. 



* This bird appears to belong to the genus Ceblephyris of Cuvier. 



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