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and the four outer pair of tail feathers, pure white : 

 bill moderate ; culmen arched from the nostrils. — 

 Female ? dark glossy cinereous above : the throat and 

 breast, grey : chin and sides of the head tinged with 

 rufous, {fig. 46. h.) 



Inhabits India. Mus. Nost. 



Total length 8i inches; bill, front % ; wings 3^ ; tail, beyond, 

 2^; base 3f ; tarsus Ijg; middle toe and claw •^. This and the 

 last species are coloured precisely alike, but the difference 

 in their bills is so great, that I am disposed to consider them 

 distinct, more especially in reference to the next. 



S5. Gryllivora brevirostra. 



Glossy black : chin, throat, and breast, grey : stripe 

 on the wings, and three lateral tail feathers, pure white. 

 Bill small, straight, {fig. 46. c) 



Inhabits Java ? Mus. Nost. 



Total length 8 inches; bill, front -^; wings 3i; tail, beyond, 

 21 ; base 3i ; tarsus 1 ; middle toe and claw 1. This is pro- 

 bably a female, but the ditference in the tail distinguishes it 

 at first sight from the two former. 



36. Thamnobia atrata. 



Entirely sooty black : wings rather paler. Tail even. 



Inhabits Africa ? Mus. Nost. 



Total length 5\ inches ; bill, gape J, ; front hardly \ ; wings 

 2^5 ; tail, beyond, \^ ; base 2 ; tarsus fg. This, in comparison 

 to the type, is an aberrant species, since the lateral toes are 

 not quite equal, and the tail is even, but the upper mandible is 

 destitute of any notch, and the quills are only ^ longer than 

 the tertials ; the third, fourth, and fifth quills are longest and 

 equal. 



37. Saxicola leucoptera. 



Entirely dark brown : inner webs of the primaries, 

 and shafts of the secondary quills, pure white. 



Inhabits South Africa. Dr. Smith. 



Large : wings and tail short ; legs very long, lateral toes 

 equal, claws slightly curved. Total length 7f inches; bill, 

 the notch being obsolete, 1-jLfrom the gape, the margins not 

 inflexed; wings 3^ ; tail, base 2i ; tarsus I^ ; middle toe and 

 claw -A ; hind ditto ^ ; the claw as long as the toe. 



