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SYLViADJE, 



Rusty-red Synallaxis streaked with black above ; with the fore- 

 head, lores, and stripe through the eyes white ; the head and 

 nape with black feathers edged with white. 



Muscicapa stenura. Temm. PL Col. \67-f- 3. 



Length four inches : the forehead, lores, and a 

 band, in which the eyes are placed, are pure white : 

 the head and nape are clothed with black feathers* 

 which are banded with white : the prevailing colour 

 of the rest of the plumage is rusty-red, the upper 

 parts being dashed with black : the throat and the 

 middle of the belly are whitish-yellow : the tail is 

 dusky edged with white : the beak and the legs are 

 black. 



GENUS CVIIL— TROGLODYTES, Cuvier. WREN. 



Rostrum gracile, integrum, 

 rectum, aut paulo eurva- 

 tum : mandibular oequales. 



Alec breves, rotundata?. 



Cauda ascendens. 



Pollex brevis. 



Beak slender, entire, straight, 

 or a little curved ; the man- 

 dibles equal. 



Wings short, rounded. 



Tail ascending. 



Hind-toe short. 



Sp. 1. Tr. Europaeus. Stepk, v. x. p. 763.pl. 60. — Britain and 



other parts of Europe. 

 Sp. 2. Tr. furvus. Strpk. v. x. ;;. 764. — North America. 



GENUS CIX.— REGULUS, Cuvier. GOLD-CREST 



Rostrum gracillime, breve, 

 rectum, lateratim subcom- 

 pressum : mandibida su- 

 perior versus apicem tc- 

 nuiter laciniata. 



Nares pennis duabus recum- 

 bentibus tecta\ 



BeuJc very slender, short, 

 straight, slightly com- 

 pressed laterally : the 

 upper mandible slightly 

 laciniated towards the tip. 



Nostrils covered with two 

 recumbent feathers. 



