MERULWJE. \"i.7 



white of a round or triangular form ; and the caudal 

 feathers are terminated with the same : the upper part 

 of the back is brownish : the throat is somewhat varied 

 with red, black and white : all the under parts and 

 the rump are beautiful chesnut-red : the abdomen is 

 brownish : the legs and beak are dusky. 



GENUS LXXXIII.— DRYMOPHILA, Swainson- 

 ANT-THRUSH. 



Rostrum mediocre, subcylin- 

 dricum, gonyde recta ; vi- 

 brissa? nulla?. 



Beak moderate, subcylindric, 

 with its gonix straight ; 

 without bristles. 



Aloe mediocres, rotundatae, | Wings moderate, rounded, 



remex quarta longissima. 

 Cauda rotundata. 

 Tarsi elongati, subgraciles, 



squamis lateralibus in- 



tegris. 



the fourth quill longest. 

 Tail rounded. 

 Tarsi elongated, rather slen- 



der, with the lateral scales 



entire. 



3Iyothera pars. 



Sp. 1. Dr.leucopus. Zool. Jour. (Swain.) ii. 150. 



Di. rtifo-fiisca, corpore infra albente; crisso, striga oculari ma- 

 culisque tectrices nigra* ornanlibus fulxu ; torque pectorali 

 obtecto nigro ; tarsis albentibus. Mas. n)ento nigro; jugulo 

 maculisque scapidares ornantibus niveo : fcemina mento jugu- 

 h.quejulvis. 



Rufous-brown Ant-Thrush with the body beneath whitish ; the 

 vent, eye stripe, and spots on the black wing-coverts, fulvous ; 

 breast with a concealed black collar ; tarsi whitish. Male with 

 the chin black ; the throat and spots on the shoulder-coverts 

 snowy ; female with the chin and throat fulvous. 



Length five inches and a half: male rather less 

 than the Robin : the beak is black, and but little 

 v. xm. p. ii. 1*2 



