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YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT. 



the tip, not notched, pointed, and altogether black; the tongue is 

 tapering, more fleshy than those of the Muscicapa tribe, and a little 

 lacerated at the tip ; the nostril is oval, and half covered with an 

 arching membrane ; legs and feet light blue, hind claw rather the 

 strongest, the two exterior toes united to the second joint. 



The female may be distinguished from the male by the black 

 and white adjoining the eye being less intense or pure than in the 

 male; and in having the inside of the mouth of a dirty flesh color, 

 which in the male is black; in other respects their plumage is 

 nearly alike. 



