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margins; wing-coverts and quills black ; tail black; crown of head black, extending over the hind- 
neck to the top of the mantle; sides of face, sides of neck, entire throat and chest black, extending 
down the middle of the breast; abdomen and sides of body dark slaty-grey, as also the under tail- 
coverts; thighs black; axillaries and under wing-coverts dark slaty-grey, blacker along the edge of 
the wing: * bill, feet, and eyelid, as well as the palate, clear yellow ; iris greyish brown " (Neuwied). 
Total length 8:5 inches, culmen 0:8, wing 4-5, tail 3:2, tarsus Ü 95. 
Adult female. General colour above dark ruddy olivaceous-brown, slightly paler and more 
greyish towards the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts like the back; bastard-wing, primary- 
coverts, and quills brown, rather more reddish externally than the back, the secondaries like the 
latter; tail brown, slightly shaded with olive ; sides of face brown like the head, with faint whitish 
shaft-lines on the ear-coverts ; cheeks somewhat more olivaceous-brown, like the under surface of the 
body, the throat greyer and showing some streaks of dusky-brown triangular spots; centre of 
abdomen light grey, becomiug whiter near the vent; sides of body and thighs more olive-brown; 
under tail-coverts ashy-brown, with whitish edges and a darker sub-terminal shade; under wing- 
coverts and axillaries pale orange-buff; quills below dusky brown, shaded with buff along the inner 
web. Total length 8:8 inches, culmen 0:5, wing 4:35, tail 82, tarsus 0:95. 
Another female bird in the British Museum is apparently younger, having remains of spots on 
the greater wing-coverts. It is much more ochraceous-brown below than the one described, 
especially on the under tail-coverts. 
= The descriptions of the adult male and female are taken from a pair of birds from Rio de 
Janeiro, presented to the British Museum by Mr. Alexander Fry. The figure of the male is drawn 
from a Bahia skin in the Seebohm Collection, and that of the female from a specimen obtained 
by Younds at Rio de Janeiro and now in the Salvin-Godman Collection. 
N.B.—The female is probably the bird called Platycichla brevipes by Baird (cf. Sharpe, Cat. В. 
vi.p. 879). Dr. Stejneger has drawn attention to this fact (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. v. p. 479); but 
whether it is the female of М. flavipes or of one of the allied races can only be determined by a 
comparison with the type. (В. B. $.) 
