ERYTIIROPY GI A PECTORALIS. 
brown ; the base of lower mandible yellowish ; legs light yellowish brown, 
with a flesh coloured tint ; eyes clear Dutch-orange. 
Form, &c. — Figure slender ; bill slightly curved ; the culmen blunt and 
considerably arched, the degree of curvature in the latter greatest towards 
the point ; the bill triangular towards base, compressed towards the point ; 
the sides of mandibles slightly convex ; nostrils small, opening longitudinally 
and near to the commissure ; emargination of upper mandible slightly indi- 
cated. Wings rounded, short, and when folded reach a little beyond the base 
of the tail ; the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh quill feathers equal and 
longest, the third slightly shorter, the second considerably shorter than the 
third, and the first about half the length of the longest ones, and broad and 
rounded at its point. The secondary and tertiary quill feathers but little 
shorter than the primaries. Tail long and slightly rounded at the point, the 
apices of the feathers broad and rounded ; tarsi moderately strong, faintly 
scutellated anteriorly, entire posteriorly. Toes rather slender, the lateral 
ones equal in length and considerably shorter than the middle one, rather 
longer than the hinder one, the latter is the most robust. Claws slender, 
pointed and moderately curved, the hinder claws strongest and longest. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Inches. Lines. 
Length from the point of the bill to the 
tip of the tail 6 3 
of the bill from the gape 0 8 s 
of the tail 3 l! 
of the wings when folded 2 
Inches. Lines, 
Length of the tarsi 0 11 
of the outer toe 0 3s 
of the middle toe 0 6'i 
of the hinder toe 0 3 
In the female the colours are not quite so bright as in the male. The size 
of both sexes is the same, and the colours are distributed after the same 
pattern. 
This and the species represented in the next Plate (L.) accord so perfectly in their habits, 
organization, and configuration, that no doubt can exist as to their being of the same group; 
but what that group may be is not so easily to be decided. In their manners and habits they 
have a remarkable similitude to the Saxicolte, and their colours are distributed after a like 
fashion. The form and character of their individual organs, however, exclude them from that 
group. The bill, wings and tail are not those of Saxicolte, and the circumstance of their never 
leaving trees and descending to the ground, also removes them from a genus the species of 
which, in many respects, they strongly resemble. They jerk their wings after the same manner 
as the Saxicolte, and they hunt for insects which constitute their food with the same activity. 
