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17. A beautiful long-tailed Fli/catcher from Maldonado. — 

 I consider this to be the Muse, psalura^ or the Gobe-mouche ye. 

 tupa of M. Teraminck, (PI. col. 286.) The colours in my bird 

 are much darker than those in M. Temminck's plate, being black 

 where his are gray.* 



18. A Bird from Port Famine which appears to me to be new, 

 and to belong to a group not as yet characterized. — Were I to 

 judge from a single specimen I should say it was one of those nu- 

 merous intermediate forms that unite the Thrushes and Warblers. 

 I shall say no more on the bird, which I think you will agree with 

 me is of much interest, until I have more extensive means of com- 

 parison and reference. 



19.20. These birds I have little doubt belong to Latham's 

 Thorn-tailed Warbler^ (Gen. Hist. vol. vii. p. 147. No. 191. pi. 

 cvii.), the Sylvia spinicauda of the " Index Ornithologicus," al- 

 though his figure of the species is much more highly coloured than 

 the specimens I have met with, 



21. A Sylvia with which I am unacquainted. — It is so decidedly 

 marked that I venture on a description. 



Sylvia dorsalis. 



Sylv. nigra, dorso scapularibusque rujis, remigibus rectrici' 

 busque fuscis. 



The bill and legs are black. The length from the end of the 

 bill to that of the tail is 41 inches. 



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22. This is another species of the Sylviadce ; but from its short 

 and rounded wings, lengthened tarsi, and short tail, it appears 

 very remote from the true Sylvia. I should refer it to Saxicola, 

 or some neighbouring genus. Perhaps it may come in with 

 Brachypteryx or Prinia of our friend Dr. Horsfield. I do not 



* The species is well coloured in M. Vieillot's plate, (Gal. desOis. PI. 131,) 

 where he gives the name oi Muse, risora to the bird. I question whether this 

 is not the earlier name, as M. Vieillot does not refer to M. Temminck's plate, 

 which he does in other instances where such had been previously published. — 

 Ed. 



