198 PASSERES. AMPELID,E. 



minently displayed the scarlet, wax-like ornaments 

 resulting from the flattening of the shafts of the 

 secondary feathers of the wings." 



SOLITAIRE." 



Muscicapa armiUata, VIEILLOT. 

 Myiade.stes genibarbis, SWAINSON. 

 Ptilogonys armillatus, G. R. GRAY. Gen. B. pi. 69. 



WANDERING among the woods on the summit 

 of the mountain ridge that rises behind Bluefields, 

 I had often heard in the spring, proceeding from 

 the deep forests, a single clear note, lengthened 

 and mellow as the tone of a flute, sometimes alone, 

 sometimes followed by another, about two tones 

 lower. The notes were singularly sweet, and their 

 sudden recurrence at rather long intervals, in the 



* Length 8 inches ; expanse 11 ; flexure 34 ; tail 3f ; rictus -&; 

 breadth of beak at base ^ ; tarsus 1 ; middle toe . 



Irides hazel, or dull orange ; beak black ; feet bright fulvous, claws 

 black. Upper parts blue-grey ; wing-quills black with grey edges, the 

 bases of the interior primaries white, visible when expanded ; the greater 

 primary coverts, and that part of the primaries succeeding the white, 

 deeper black, unedged with grey. Tail black, uropygials grey ; a short 

 white line near the tip of the inner web of the third true tail-feather from 

 the middle, increases on each outwardly, till the fifth is almost wholly 

 white. Cheeks black ; a spot at base of lower mandible, and lower eye- 

 lid, white ; chin and throat rust- red. Breast ashy -grey, paler on belly ; 

 vent and under tail-coverts rusty orange. Edge of shoulder white. In- 

 testine 7 inches : two caeca, so small as to be almost rudimentary. Sexes 

 alike. 



