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Genus CICHLOPSIS Cab. 



CicHopBis Cabanis, Mus. Hein. i. p. 54, 1850. Type C. leueogenys 

 (Cab.). 



Fig. 146. — To show the shape of the bill. 



In this genus the bill is depressed at the base, where the width 

 is about three-fourths the length of the exposed culmen, and the 

 upper mandible is slightly hooked. The wing is rounded, the third 

 and fourth primaries longest and subequal, the second intermediate 

 in length between the sixth and seventh, and the first about one- 

 third the length of the second. The tail is rounded at the tip and 

 rather more than three-fourths the length of the wing, and the 

 middle toe without the claw about three-fourths the length of the 

 tarsus. Coloration: male and female similar, but less bright. 



579. CicMopsis gularis. 



Orange-brown Solitaire. 



CicMopsis qularis Salvin & Godman, Ibis, 1882, p. 76 (Merume 

 Mountains) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vi. p. 378, 1881 ; Salvin, 

 Ibis, 1885, p. 199 (Roraima, 3500 ft.) ; Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. 

 Ainer. i. p. 343, no. 3504, 1912. 



Adv.lt. General colour above dark rufous-brown, including the 

 top of the head, back, wings, and tail, with rufous edgings to the 

 tips of the greater upper wing-coverts ; inner webs of flight-quills 

 blackish, margined with pale rufous ; tail rather paler than the 

 back ; sides of the face similar to the crown of the head ; chin 

 and throat pale rufous ; fore-neck rust-brown ; abdomen greyish 

 white ; sides of body dusky-brown ; flanks ochreous ; under tail- 

 coverts pale cinnamon ; axillaries white ; under wing-coverts 

 greyish, the greater series brown ; inner edges of quills below 

 pais cinnamon-rufous, dark brown on the remainder ; lower aspect 

 of tail dull rufous. 



