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wing coverts marked in the same manner, but blackish ; quills 

 black, edged with grey ; tail greatly forked, and half the length of 

 the rest of the bird ; the outer feathers five inches, the middle only 

 two, colour black, edged with rufous grey, the outer ones white on 

 the exterior web for half the length ; legs black : in some the tail is 

 much shorter. 



Inhabits Mexico : seems much allied to the last. 



137— YIPERU FLYCATCHER. 



L'Yiperu, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 75. 



THIS singular bird is about the size of the others, but including 

 the long tail feathers is fifteen inches and three quarters long, and 

 fifteen inches in extent of wing. Bill seven lines long, broad at the 

 base, five lines thick, a trifle curved, with a hollow at the base of 

 the upper mandible, and a notch near the point; behind the eye a 

 bright rufous spot, which extends over the ear, and passes down on 

 each side of the neck ; at the nostrils some hairs, reaching to the 

 corners of the mouth ; throat, belly, and under wing coverts, white ; 

 head, breast, the whole neck, the rufous curved streak excepted, pale 

 lead-colour; shafts of the feathers brown, with the points unwebbed; 

 back and wing coverts dusky, the inner greater ones brown at the 

 ends; quills brown, becoming black towards the points, which are 

 in part whitish ; the outer quills have the exterior margins inclined 

 to rufous, the others whitish, and some brown ; hence arises a rufous 

 spot, which is yellowish beneath ; tail feathers greatly forked : the 

 first ten inches long ; the second three inches and three quarters ; 

 third five inches and three quarters; fourth six inches and five- 

 twelfths ; fifth seven inches ; and the two middle seven inches and 

 a half, and are pointed at the ends ; legs large and rough. Male 

 and female much alike. 



