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MUSCICAPID^, 



Inhabits the great forests near the river Gamtoo 

 in Southern Africa. Length six inches and a quarter : 

 beak and legs brown : irides hazel : plumage above 

 and thighs dusky pale brown, beneath white : round 

 the eye, on the upper part, a kind of white eyebrow : 

 across the middle of the neck before a brownish^black 

 crescent : tail long, cuneiform, the three outer fea- 

 thers tipped with white. The female is smaller, and 

 the colours paler ; but is destitute of the blackish 

 crescent on the throat, and the under parts are dusky 

 white. 



GENUS LIX.—PLATYRHYNCHUS, Desmarest. 



nostrum basi latum, valde 

 depressum, supra carina- 

 tum, apice curvatum. 



"Nares vibrissis tectae. 



Beak broad at the base, 

 greatly depressed, cari- 

 nated above, curved at the 

 tip. 



Nostrils furnished with bris- 

 tles. 



Sp. 1 . PI. fuscus. Desmarest. Hist, Nat. Man. et Tod, pi. 72, 

 Todus rostratus. Shauo, viii. 122, — South America. 



Sp. 2. PI. olivaceus. Temm. PI. Col. \2.f. 1. 



Pl. olimceO'Viridis, guld, collo antice pectoreque vlrescentibus ; 



ahdomine cinereo-flavo ; alis cauddque Juscis viridi nitentibus. 

 Olive-green Platyrhynchus with the throat, neck in front, and 



breast greenish ; the abdomen ashy-yellow j the wings and tail 



brown, glossed with greenish. 



Inhabits Brazil. Length five inches : the upper 

 parts of the head, the neck, and the body, are deep 

 green slightly shaded with olive : the throat, the fore 

 part of the neck, and the breast, are tinged with 



