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there are several interesting variations in its struc- 

 ture, which renders it an abberrant species of 

 Saxicola* uniting that genus to the group we have 

 called Thamnolia. In the first place, the bill is 

 more lengthened, the upper culmen more arched, 

 and the sides more compressed ; the wings are more 

 rounded, the third, fourth, and fifth being all of the 

 same length, and only four-tenths of an inch shorter 

 than the secondary quills, while the middle toe is 

 very considerably shorter, in proportion, than that 

 of S. rubicola ; the tail is perfectly even, and the 

 feathers much widened at their tips, which are 

 truncate. 



Total length, 5J inches; bill, from the gape, T ^ ; 

 from the front, ^ ; wings, 3 ; tail beyond, 1 ; from 

 the base, 2^ ; tarsus, ^ ; middle toe and claw, $. 



BUFF-BODIED FLYCATCHER. 



HyUotaflavigaster, SWAINS. 



Above, in the male, glossy blue-black, in the female, cine- 

 reous ; beneath, in both, ochraceous yellow ; wing- cover' 

 and rump pure white. 



WE have long possessed specimens of this curious 

 little Flycatcher reputed from India, but its precise 

 locality was not known until specimens of both 

 sexes arrived from Senegal. It was this species, 



