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Btoat, moderately duprenfled, rectilinear viewed from above. Hind toe 

 and claw shorter than inner lateral, 'lail slightly graduated on Mm. 

 Throat plain. 



Platyolchla. Plumage and wing as in Cichlopnii. Commissure considernMy 



arched. Bill attenuated ; lateral outlines decidedly concave viewed from 



'■', above; lower mandible much weaker tlian in Cichlofms. Hind toe and 



' olaw longer than inner lateral. Toes more deeply cleft. Tail slightly 



f. rounded. Throat streaked. 



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Mijiadestes, Swainson, Jard. Nat. Library, XIII. Flycatchers, "1838," 

 132. (Type iW. genibarhiB, ^v .) ,. , , 



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Plumage soft, loose, and full, especially on the flanks and over tliiglis. 

 Body slender, depressed ; the wings much pointed, and reaching nearly to 





Jlijindcstea unJItarhm, Baikd. (Jamaica.) 

 (BUI and foot uatural «ize ; wiug aad tail three-fourtlm.) 



middle of lengthened tail ; abont equal to the tail. Bill weak, short and 

 broad, much depressed ; the gape very wide ; the commissure, which is almost 

 perfectly straight, more than half distance from nostril to tip of "bill; ridge 

 well marked ; keel less distinct. Culmen straight to near tip, then decnrved, 

 hooked, with distinct notch in both tips. Nostrils oval, nearly lateral, with 

 overhanging membrane ; the frontal feathers coming to posterior edge, beud- 

 ing more and more forwards and mixed with bristles. 



Legs rather weak- Tarsus much compressed, without scutellse, which are 

 fused into one plate, with perhaps a single division at lower end anteriorly, 

 and one, sometimes two, on outer edge. Toes and claws slender and leugtii- 

 ened ; hind claw about equal to middle. Outer lateral toe a little longer than 

 inner, and reaching a little beyond the base of middle. Inner toe cleft to base 

 of basal joint ; basal joint of outer entirely adherent ; basal joint of middle 

 toe half adherent externally, one-third internally. 



Feathers of occiput full and somewhat lengthened, forming a crest. Wim^' 

 pointed, although the outer quills are graduated. Primary quills ten: tlie 

 1st about one-third or less the longest ; the 2d equal to 8th or 9th ; the Mh 

 longest ; the 1st falcate and attenuated ; the 2d and 3d attenuated also. Tail 

 somewhat graduated, and also considerably eniarginated or forked ; this foik 

 not 80 deep, however, as the graduation. 



