a^ SWAINS. 

 PLATE XXVII. 



THE only specimen we have ever seen of this very 

 remarkable bird, is the one already alluded to as 

 existing in the Royal Museum at Paris ; and, as 

 every particular respecting its structure must be 

 highly interesting, we shall here transcribe our ori- 

 ginal description, verlatim, as written when the 

 specimen was before us. 



Size and colour of the robin, which it so closely 

 resembles, that it might easily pass for that bird: 

 oill rather larger, straight, but abruptly bent at the 

 tip; the base broad, but not dilated; culmen 

 elevated and straight; the sides compressed; go- 

 nys ascending ; rictus as much bristled as in the 

 European Flycatchers; wings moderate, reaching 

 to half the length of the tail ; the first quill very 

 short, the second equal to the seventh, the fourth 

 and fifth longest ; tail moderate, slightly rounded ; 

 tarsi (for a Flycatcher) rather long, pale ; anterior 

 and lateral scales entire; outer and inner toes nearly 

 equal ; the inner slightly connected at the base, but 

 the outer and middle toe are connected beyond the 



