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INSECTIVOR.E. 

 Family TURDID^E. 



Genus Ixos. (Temminck.J 



Generic Characters. — Beak shorter than the head, compressed, 

 bent from its base, curved and slightly hollowed out at the 

 tip, with stiff hairs at the base. Nostrils basal, lateral, ovoid, 

 and partly closed by a naked membrane. Feet short and 

 feeble; tarsi shorter than the middle toe; the external toe 

 united at the base; claws short and slender. Wings short 

 and rounded; the first quill feather short, the second, third, 

 and fourth, each longer than the last; fourth, fifth, and 

 sixth longest. 



DUSKY IXOS. 



Ixos ohscnrus. 



Ixos obscurus, Temminck, Manual, App. to 



Third Part, 2nd. Edit., 1840. 



" " ScHLEGEL. DEGLAND. 



" barbatus, Bonapakte. Captain Loche. 



Hcematornis lugubris, Lesson; Synops, 1839. 



Turdo'ide obseur, Of the French. 



DunMe Halb-drossel, Of the Germans. 



Specific Characters. — Wings with the bastard quill long; first 

 quill shorter than sixth. General tint brown above, ash-colour 

 below. Length about eight inches. 



