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dial, even, broad; legs and feet suited to walking and perching; 
tarse equal to mid toe and nail; toes long and slender; nails acute ; 
hind much the largest, and equal to the digit ; exclusively Montico- 
lous; stomach muscular and strong; feeds on hard and soft insects, 
pulpy berries and small seeds. A shy forester; not gregarious. 
Type, M. leucura, mihi.—Throughout deep indigo-blue, passing 
to black on alars and caudals; forehead and shoulders rich cobalt 
blue ; tail basally and laterally whitened ; a white spot on the side of 
the neck of the male; bill and legs black; iris dark. Length, 74 
inches; bill, 3; tail, 31; wing, 3}; tarse, 1,3,; central toe and nail, 
15; hind, 3. Weight 1 oz. 
Genus Nemura, mihi. 
General structure of Phenicura, but slighter, with slenderer legs 
and feet, and bill more armed at the point, and lateral toes unequal ; 
wings and tail mucronated, as in the last, but the webs less broad 
and the tips narrowed wedgewise; nails long, slender and delicate, 
like the digits and legs. Manners of Phenicura, but a forester and 
shy. Feeds on insects, soft and hard, and on pulpy berries. Found 
in central and northern regions of hills. Types, N.rufilatus et flavo- 
livacea et cyanura. 
N. rufilatus, mihi.—Above and the cheeks indigo-blue; brows, 
shoulders and rump soft czrulean; below white, save the flanks, 
which are bright rusty; bill and legs black; iris brown. Length, 53 
inches ; bill, 3; tail, 23; wing, 3%; tarse, 1,1;; central toe and nail, 3; 
hind, 5%. 
N. flavolivacea, mihi.—Possibly female of the last. Above olive- 
green, with a yellowish tinge; below sordidly fulvescent; bill and 
legs fleshy grey.. Length, 53 inches; bill, ;§; tail, 23; wing, 3; 
tarse, 11; central toe and nail, }}; hind, 73. 
N. cyanura, mihi.—Head, neck, breast and wings olive-brown, 
more diluted below ; rump and tail verditer-blue ; flanks bright rusty ; 
chin, belly and vent white ; legs and feet black. Sexes alike. Length, 
53 inches ; bill, 3; tail, 27; wing, 3; tarse, 1 ; central toe and nail, $; 
hind, less 3. 
SYLVIANE. 
Genus Tarsiger, mihi. 
Bill equal to head, straight, subdepressed, feeble, gradually widen- 
ing from the tip ; the upper mandible more than half exceeded by the 
nareal fosse, and much overlaid by the soft frontal plumes; nares 
broad lunate, forward, apert, shaded by a nude membrane; tip of 
bill obtuse, and nearly unarmed; gape rather wide and ciliated; 
wings submedial, round rather than acuminate, firm; fifth quill 
longest ; 4-6 and 3-7 respectively equal; alars and caudals wedged 
and mucronate ; tail medial, rounded; tarse very elevate, slender 
and smooth; toes ambulant, simple; laterals unequal, hind rather 
large ; nails large, slender, simple; hind largest. Exclusively mon- 
ticolous; dwells in low brushwood solitarily, and is much on the 
ground, feeding chiefly on small ground insects. Makes its nest on 
the ground, saucer-shape, of moss, and places it under cover of some 
