428 Captain P. P. King on the Animals 



17. A beautiful long-tailed Flycatcher from Maldonado. — 

 I consider this to be the Muse, jisalura^ or the Gobe-mouche ye- 

 iupa of M. Tcmminck, (PI. col. 286.) The colours in my bird 

 are much darker than those in M. Temminck's plate, being black 

 where his are gray.* 



18. A Bird from Port Famine which appears to me to be new, 

 and to belong to a group not as yet characterized. — Were I to 

 judge from a single specimen I should say it was one of those nu- 

 merous intermediate forms that unite the Thrushes and JVarblers. 

 I shall say no more on tiic bird, which I think you will agree with 

 me is of much interest, until I have more extensive means of com- 

 parison and reference. 



19.20. These birds I have little doubt belong to Latham's 

 Thorn-tailed Warbler^ (Gen. Hist. vol. vii. p. 147. No. 191. pi. 

 cvii.), the Sylvia spinicauda of the " Index Ornithologicus," al- 

 though his figure of the species is much more highly coloured than 

 the specimens I have met with. 



21. A Sylvia with which I am unacquainted. — It is so decidedly 

 marked that I venture on a description. 



Sylvia dorsalis. 



Sylv. nigra, dorso scapularibusque rujis, remigibus recirict- 

 busque fuscis. 



The bill and legs are black. The length from the end of the 

 bill to that of the tail is 4| inches. 



22. This is another species of the Sylviadcc ; but from its short 

 and rounded wings, lengthened tarsi, and short tail, it appears 

 very remote from the true Sylvia. I should refer it to Saxicola^ 

 or some neighbouring genus. Perhaps it may come in with 

 Brachypteryx or Prinia of our friend Dr. Ilorsfield. I do not 



• The species is well coloured in M.Vieillot's plate, (Gal. desOis. PI. 131,) 

 where he gives the name of JJfwsc. risora to the bird. I question whether this 

 is not the earlier name, as M. Vicillot does not refer to M. Temminck's plate, 

 which he docs in oilier instances where such had been previously published. — 

 Ed. 



