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MUSCICAPA FULVIFRONS. 



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Head rather long, neck short, body slender,- tarsus and feet weak, plumage 

 loose, crested; bill short, depressed, broad at the base, nostrils open, upper mandi- 

 ble declinate at the tip, horn color, dark above, whitish below, bristles at the 

 base; eye encircled with yellowish-white ; shafts brown, second and third quill 

 about equal and longest, fourth a little shorter, sixth and first equal ; upper part 

 brown, tinged with yellowish; wings brown; outer web, first primarie white, 

 secondaries broadly edged with pale white on the outer webs ; secondarie 

 and first row, small coverts broadly tipped with pale brown ; tail brown, emargin- 

 ate, outer web first feather, white ; lower plumage deep buff, lightest on the throat 

 and fore-neck; under tail- coverts white, tinged with pale yellow ; claws weak, 

 arched, compressed, acute. Length from bill to the end of tail 4 9-12, wings from 

 flexure 2 8-12, tarsus 7-12, bill along the ridge 1-3, gap 6J-12. 



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