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Leucocirca, because it must form the connecting 

 link between the two primary groups. We have 

 had in our Museum, for the last thirteen years, a 

 most singular sort of flycatcher, whose natural rela- 

 tions, until the last week, had completely baffled 

 us; so much so, indeed, as to cast a doubt over 

 our arrangement both of the Saxicolce and the 

 Muscicapidce. The first impression, upon seeing 

 this bird, is that f>? its being a robin (Erythaica); 

 ft glance at its bill and its feet destroys this idea, 

 and we should then pronounce it a flycatcher. But 

 its tail is so totally unlike that of the restricted 

 *enus Musclcapa^ where alone it might be supposed 

 to enter, that we were altogether perplexed as to 

 its precise station : and although we were convinced 

 it was either a most aberrant species, or the type 

 of a new sub-genus, we did not venture to charac- 

 terize it, even in our latest arrangement*. The 

 -ecent acquisition, however, of the birds before 

 alluded to, have solved all our doubts upon this 

 subject ; and under the sub-generic name of 



* Class, of Birds, yol. ii. 



