MirSCICAPIDiE. 



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greenish : the abdomen is ashy-yellow : the wings 

 are dusky-brown, glossed with greenish, with their 

 coverts deeply edged with ochraceous-green : the tail 

 is bright brown, glossed with greenish : the upper 

 mandible of the beak is black, the lower white. 



Sp. 3. PI. Cancromus. Temm. PI Col 12. f. 2. Stvain. Zool. 

 Illust.pl. 115. 



Pl. vertice crista Jlava; f route superciliisque olrcaceo-fuscis ; ma^ 

 culd loris alba; guld alba; corpore suprh, pectore, abdomi- 

 neque medio fuscis. 



Platyrhynchus with a yellow crest ; the forehead and eyebrows 

 olive-brown ; a white spot on the lores 3 the throat white ; the 

 body above, breast, and middle of the abdomen brown. 



Inhabits Brazil. Length three inches and a half: 

 a pretty species, rendered remarkable by a beautiful 

 yellow coronal crest, composed of long decomposed 

 feathers, surrounded by small olive-brown feathers, 

 which arise at the base of the beak, adorn the fore- 

 head, and form broad eyebrows : on the lores is a 

 small white spot : all the upper parts of the plumage 

 are brown tinged with olive : the throat is white, the 

 breast is brown, and the middle of the belly brown ♦ 



GENUS LX.— MUSCICAPA Auctorum. FLYCATCHER. 



Rostrum subtrigonum, gra- 

 cile, subulatum, versus 

 apicem curvatum ; man- 

 dibula inferior infra sub- 

 plana, apice recta. 



Beak somewhat trigonal, 

 slender, subulated, curved 

 towards the tip ; the under 

 mandible rather flat be- 

 neath, its tip straight. 



A. Cauda haudjurcatd. A. With the tail not forked. 



