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of the upper air was less than three and a half inches in length 

 wiih rather unusual coloring, the fore part o£ the body gray, the 

 back, wings, lower breast, and tail rufous. Its claim to the 

 Flycatcher family was proved by the broad beak and remarkably 

 long bristles." ' 



Genus PYROCEPHAIUS Gould. 



Pyrocephalus Gould, Voy. ' Beagle,' Zool. iii. p. 44, 1841. Type 

 P. rubineus (Bodd.). 



Fig. 89. — Pyrocephalus rulineus. 



The species on which this genus was founded is easily dis- 

 tinguished by the bright and contrasting colours in the male. 

 The bill is somewhat flattened and rather wide at the base, the 

 width being slightly more than half the length of the exposed 

 culmen,the upper mandible is sharply hooked, and the base is 

 furnished with rictal bristles but only feebly developed. The 

 wing is rounded, the second, third, and fourth primaries longest 

 and equal, the first about equal in length to the sixth. The tail 

 is long, nearly square at the tip, and about five-sevenths the length 

 of the wing. The tarsus is about one-fourth longer than the 

 exposed culmen and the hind toe and claw intermediate in length 

 between the outer and middle toe and claw. Coloration : nial& 

 and female different. 



• 494. Pyrocephalus saturatus. 

 Dusky Ruby Flycatcher. 



MyiarchvfS eovonatus (nee Gmel.) Cab. in Schomb. Eeis. Guiaif. iii. 



p. 700, 1848. 

 Pyrocephalus rvbineus (nee Bodd.) Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 297 ; Sclater,. 



Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 211, 1888 (British Guiana). 

 Pyrocephalus saturatus Berlepseh & Hartert, Nov. Zool. ix. p. 34, 1902 



(Altagracia, Venezuela) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer.i. p. 298, 



no. 3045, 1912. 



Adult male. Back, wings, tail, and sides of the face sooty-black 



