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Genus 4. — PITT A.— Vieillol. 
Generic Character _Bill of medium size, strong, hard, and 
compressed, with a slight curvature from its base, where the 
ridge is elevated, bent at the tip, with a slight notch ; nostrils 
at the base of the bill, lateral, and partly closed by a naked 
membrane; legs very long, slender, tarsus frequently double the 
length of the middle toe, internal toe attached to the first joint; 
wings short, rounded, the three first quills equally graduated, 
the fourth and fifth longest; tail short, equal, or rounded. 
Pitta cyanura. — The Blue-Tailed Pitta. 
Plate XLI. fig. 3. 
Chestnut-coloured above, straw-colour beneath, and streaked 
with blue; head with black fillets; with a blue band on the 
breast, and another on the tail. Eight inches and a half long. 
Inhabits Guiana. 
Genus 5. —MYIOTHERA.— llliger. 
Generic Character .—Bill long, straight, convex above, with 
the top slightly arched, bent at the tip, and notched; lower 
mandible arcuated in the centre, and a little bent upwards at the 
point; nostrils basal, lateral, and partly closed by a membrane; 
legs long, or of a medium length; the tarsus greatly longer than 
the middle toe; lateral toes nearly of equal length, the internal 
one attached the length of the first phalange; wings short, 
rounded; the fourth and fifth quills the longest; tail short, and 
the tectrices of equal length, or graduated and long in others. 
Myiothera grullarius. — The King Thrush. 
Plate XLI. fig. 9. 
Front ear coverts, back, wings, gula, jugulum, and tail, 
chestnut; under parts and gena pale reddish chestnut; breast 
and abdomen with lanceolate dark chestnut spots ; back of the 
head and neck ash-colour; the feathers with a pale streak in 
their centre; legs long, dull flesh-coloured; tibia half covered 
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