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a slight notch near the tip, with a few bristles about the base ; but the bill 
is not sufficiently flattened to refer the bird to the genus Muscicapa. In con- 
formity with the opinion expressed by Dr. Latham, I have ventured to rank it 
among the Warblers, though by no means convinced that this is its correct 
place in the system. The whole bird is entirely of a dark blueish black above ; 
the quills and tail inclining more to dusky black ; the plumage of the breast 
has very little of the blueish tint, and the qnills and tail, below, are of light 
dusky colour, the first quill feather being two inches shorter than the fourth 
and fifth, which are the longest. Legs and claws, are of a brownish black. 
No. 45. Loxia leucotis. White-eared Grosbeak, 
The length of this bird is about four inches and a half. The bill, is of a 
whitish horn colour. The head, neck, chin, throat, breast, belly, sides under 
the wings, with the under coverts, and lesser wing coverts above, are all 
black ; on the ears is a tolerably large white spot ; and a narrow white 
collar bounds the black at the setting on of the neck where it joins the 
back, and there is also an upright line of dirty white on each side the 
breast just before the bend of the wing; the thighs, lower belly, and vent, 
are also white ; the under tail coverts, being of a dusky black. The back is 
of a chesnut colour, as are also the scapulars and greater coverts of the 
wings, which latter are edged towards the tip with white; the remaining 
feathers of the wings are dusky, some of the quills being margined out- 
wardly with a chesnut colour. The rump is of a dusky brown hue, edged 
and tipped with greyish ; the tail is blackish brown, and the exterior fea- 
ther lighter, with the shaft and outer web of a dirty white. The legs and 
feet are reddish brown, and the claws dusky, the hind claw being a very 
little bent. Dr. Latham appears at first to have entertained a suspicion 
that this might be only an additional variety of the Malacca Grosbeak, 
near which undoubtedly it should be placed, but he afterwards suggests 
the idea of its being new, in which opinion I fully coincide. 
No. 56. Alauda Deserionim. Desert Lark. 
Length about eight inches. The bill one inch long, and of a pale horn 
colour, bent about the tip, but not so much as in the African lark. The 
general colour of the plumage partakes of a greyish sandy brown, so that. 
