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as also the sides of the body, which are lighter ; centre of the body 

 ashy, becoming whiter on the lower abdomen ; thighs olive-buif ; 

 under tail-coverts light ochraceous buff; axillaries ochraceous buff; 

 under wing-coverts light brown, edged with ochraceous ; lower 

 coverts near the edge of the wing dusky brown, forming a patch ; 

 quills light brown below, ochraceous buff near the base of the inner 

 web ; bill blackish, the lower mandible yellow. Total length 7"75 

 inches, culmen 0"75, wing4"15, tail 3'75, tarsus O'So. (Alus. Salvin 

 and Godman.) 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but a little duller in colour, 

 especially below, where the throat is lighter orange-rufous. Total 

 length 8 inches, culmen 0-8, wing ■i'25, tail 3'8, tarsus 0'9. (A[us. 

 Sah'in and Godman.} 



The Orange- throated Solitaire replaces C. leucogenys in the 

 mountains of Demerara. 



60. PLATYCICHLA. 



Type. 

 Platycichla, Batrd, Revieio Ajner. B. p. 32 (1864) P. brevipes. 



General appearance that of Cichlopsis ; the bill rather longer and 

 much more attenuated at the end ; the lower mandible much weaker 

 and narrower, the toes perhaps a little more deeply cleft ; the feet 

 larger, but similarly proportioned ; the claws longer and less curved. 

 The wings and tail are similar, the latter rather shorter ; the outer 

 quill one third the second. Inside and bases of quills coloured as in 

 Flanesticus, and throat similarly streaked. (Baird, I. c.) 



Range. Confined to Brazil. 



1. Platycichla brevipes. 



Platycichla brevipes, Batrd, Beview Amer. B. pp. 32, 436 (1864). 

 Ptilogonys brevipes, Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 367, no. 5583 (1869). 



The upper parts are greenish olive, with an appearance of darker 

 edges to the feathers of the head and back. The underparts are 

 yellowish olive ; crissum paler ; the middle of the belly and anal 

 region whitish ash ; the throat-feathers with shaft-streaks and arrow- 

 spots of dusky, obscurely indicated on the jugulum ; under wing- 

 coverts cinnamon ; middle coverts with an occasional cinnamon 

 spot. Total length 8-40, wing 4-45, tail 3-SO, bill from forehead 0-8, 

 tarsus 0'95. (Baird, I. c.) 



I am unable to give any further information respecting this spe- 

 cies, which stiU remains apparently unknown in European collections. 

 It was described by Professor liaird from a Brazilian skin in the 

 Smithsonian Institution, and there are two specimens in the Museum 

 of the Philadelphia Academy. Although Prof. Baird expressly states 

 that it is a Thrush, all writers on the Turdidie since his time have 

 scarcely mentioned the species. It is not even mentioned in Mr. 

 Scebohm's volume. 



