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GREY PIHA. 



La&rta cimrea, SWAINS. 



PLATE II. 



Entirely cinereous ; belly' and vent paler, and tinged with 

 fulvous. 



Le Cotinga cendrd, Le Vaill. Ois. de VAmeriq. PL 44, p. 135. 



THE general aspect of this singular, although plain 

 coloured bird, is so like that of the American tyrant 

 flycatchers, that it is only upon looking to the more 

 minute parts of its structure that our first opinion 

 is shaken; and we feel disposed to place it much 

 nearer the chatterers than it would he, if retained 

 among the tyrants (Tyranninoe). In referring it to 

 the station now proposed, we are strengthened both 

 by the opinion of Le Vaillant, and by certain cha- 

 racters it presents, indicative of an affinity with the 

 Querula rubricollis. Of its manners nothing what- 

 ever has been published, for Le Vaillant, who lived 

 some years in Surinam, seems only to have become 

 acquainted with this species by inspecting a pre- 

 served specimen in Paris ; and although it was 

 sometimes shot by my hunters in different parts 

 of Southern Brazil, I could never learn any thing 

 further than that it was found only near the thick 

 forests. 



