256 FLYCATCHER. 



quills are dusky, as is the whole tail ; at the end are small dots ; 

 legs very short, much compressed, and white. Male and female 

 much alike. 



Found in the woods of Paraguay, in May. 



163.— FULL-WINGED FLYCATCHER. 



L'Aile singuliere, Voy. d'Azara, iii. No. 173. 



LENGTH five inches ; extent seven. Bill more swelling than in the 

 last, blue, towards the point dusky; it is nearly straight, with a notch 

 near the point, and has hairs at the base ; eyes large, irides red ; the 

 head covered with long, and soft feathers ; that, the throat, and neck 

 before dusky; breast and belly brown and white mixed ; the under 

 wing coverts downy, and whitish, some of the more outward marbled 

 brown; quills beneath half white, half silvery brown ; the general 

 colour of the plumage above brown ; the wing coverts tipped with 

 whitish, and crossed with a white band, parallel to the coverts; tail 

 dusky, the outer feathers three lines shorter than the second, and 

 whitish ; legs glossy black, very short, and greatly compressed. 



Found at Paraguay in July, but only one obtained ; the greatest 

 singularity is, from the number as well as structure of the quills, 

 which are twenty-one or twenty-two, the fourth longest of all ; these 

 are very narrow, weak, and pointed, and the feathers of the fore part 

 of the Heck like bristles. 



1 64.— ANNUM BI FLYCATCHER. 



L'Annumbi, Voy. d'Azara,m. No. 222. 



LENGTH seven inches and a half; breadth ten. Bill reddish 

 brown, thick, robust, compressed on the sides, and sensibly curved 

 the whole of the length ; nostrils elongated ; irides pale rufous; the 



