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at the base, but compressed beyond the nostrils, 

 while the bristles of the gape are so small and weak 

 as to become obsolete. The tarsus is much longer 

 than the hind toe and claw, the latter of which is 

 broad and much curved; the inner toe is much 

 shorter than the outer. 



Total length, 5 inches ; bill, from the base, ^ ; 

 from the front, not quite ^ ; wings, 2 T 7 S ; tail 

 beyond, ^ ; ditto from the base> If ; tarsus, T 7 g. 



SPECTACLE FYLCATCHER. 



Platystera lobata^ SWAINS. 



Male Above glossy blue-black, with an angulated stripe of 

 white on the wings \ beneath white, with a black bar upon 

 the breast ; lobe of the eye red. 



P. collaris, Jardine and &%, Ittust. of Om. pi. 9, fig. l..-~ 

 Mus. melanoptera, Gm. fide Mus. Paris. 



Female. Above cinereous ; chin white ; throat chestnut 

 P. Desmarestii, Jardine and Selby, Illust. of Orn. pi. 9, fig. Z. 



NAKED wattles, and other fleshy appendages on the 

 head, are well known to be common among the 

 gallinaceous birds and also the exotic plovers, but 

 they are rarely seen in the perching order, and are 

 then almost solely confined to fleshy lobes around 



