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white of a round or triangular form ; and tlie caudal 

 feathers are terminated with the same : the upper part 

 of the back is brownish : the throat is somewhat varied 

 with red, black and white : all the under parts and 

 the rump are beautiful chesnut-red : the abdomen h 

 brownish : the legs and beak are dusky. 



GENUS LXXXIII.— DRYMOPHILA, Swainson. 

 ANT-THRUSH. 



Rostrum mediocre, subcylin- 



dricum, gonyde recta ; vi- 



brissae nullae. 

 Aloe mediocres, rotundatae, 



remex quarta longissima. 

 Cauda rotundata. 

 Xarsi elongati, subgraciles, 



squamis lateralibus in- 



tegris. 



Myothera 'pars. 



Beak moderate, subcyhndric, 

 with its gonix straight ; 

 without bristles. 



Wings moderate, rounded, 

 the fourth quill longest. 



Tail rounded. 



Tarsi elongated, rather slen- 

 der, with the lateral scales 

 entire. 



Sp. 1. Dr.leucopus. Zool.Jour. {Swain.) ii. 150. 



Di. rujb^usca, corpore infra albente; crisso, slriga ocular i ma- 

 culisque tectrices nigras ornanlibus fuhis; torque pcctorali 

 ohtecto 7iigro ; tarsis albentibus. Mas. mento nigro; jugulo 

 maculisque scapulares oi'nantibus niveo : foemina mento jugU' 

 In que Julvis. 



Rufous-brown Ant-Thrush with the body beneath whitish ; the 

 vent, eye stripe, and spots on the black wing-coverts, fulvous j 

 breast with a concealed black collar; tarsi whitish. Male with 

 the chin black 5 the throat and spots on the shoulder-coverts 

 snowy ; female with the chin and throat fulvous. 



Length five inches and a half : male rather less 

 than the Robin : the beak is black, and but little 

 V. XIII. r. II. VI 



