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minently displayed the scarlet, wax-like ornaments 

 resulting from the flattening of the shafts of the 

 secondary feathers of the wings." 



SOLITAIRE* 



Muscicapa armillata, Vieillot. 



Myiadestes genibarbis, Svvainson. 

 Ptilogonys armillatus, G. R. Gray. — Gen. B. pi. 69. 



Wandering among the woods on the summit 

 of the mountain ridge that rises behind Bluefields, 

 I had often heard in the spring, proceeding from 

 the deep forests, a single clear note, lengthened 

 and mellow as the tone of a flute, sometimes alone, 

 sometimes followed by another, about two tones 

 lower. The notes were singularly sweet, and their 

 sudden recurrence at rather long intervals, in the 



* Length 8 inches ; expanse 1 1 g ; flexure 3^ ; tail 3| ; rictus -^; 

 breadth of beak at base ^ ; tarsus 1 ; middle toe if. 



Irides hazel, or dull orange ; beak black ; feet bright falvous, claws 

 black. Upper parts blue-grey ; wing-quills black with grey edges, the 

 bases of the interior primaries white, visible when expanded ; the greater 

 primary coverts, and that part of the primaries succeeding the white, 

 deeper black, unedged with grey. Tail black, uropygials grey ; a short 

 white line near the tip of the inner web of the third true tail-feather from 

 the middle, increases on each outwardly, till the fifth is almost wholly 

 white. Cheeks black ; a spot at base of lower mandible, and lower eye- 

 lid, white ; chin and throat rust-red. Breast ashy-grey, paler on belly ; 

 vent and under tail-coverts rusty orange. Edge of shoulder white. In- 

 testine 7 inches : two caeca, so small as to be almost rudimentary. Sexes 

 alike. 



