BRADORNIS MARIQUENSIS. 
the longest ; the third rather shorter than the fourth ; and the second several 
lines shorter than the third. Tail rather long, narrow, and very faintly 
forked. Bill curved from the base, the culmen between nostrils keeled, more 
anteriorly lost in the convexity of the hill ; point of upper mandible slightly 
inclined downwards, and at the base of the portion so inclined there is a 
slight angle or faint emargination. Tarsi short, and moderately strong, 
anteriorly scutellated, the plates large ; posteriorly entire. Toes moderately 
strong, the inner and hinder of equal length, the outer rather longer, but 
considerably shorter, than the middle one : claws short, strongly curved, and 
pointed, the claw of the hinder toe longest and strongest. 
DIMENSIONS. 
Id. Lines. 
Length from the point of the hill to the 
base of the tail 3 6 
of the tail 3 4 
of bill to the angle of mouth 0 8 
of wings when folded 3 6 
In. Lines. 
Length of the tarsus 0 10 
outer toe 0 3| 
middle toe 0 6 
inner toe 0 3 1 
hinder toe 0 3^ 
hinder claw 0 3 
Female. — Colours the same as those of the male, only not so clear. 
Young. (B.) — The ground colour of the upper parts of the body the 
same as that of the adult, only darker ; the head, neck, and interscapulars 
are variegated by oblong white or rusty white stripes, one in the course of 
the shaft of each feather towards its tip ; the quill coverts and the scapulars 
each variegated at the point with a rufous white stripe, broadest behind. 
Under parts dull white, the throat and breast mottled with longitudinal liver- 
brown stripes. Tail feathers each with a rusty white spot at the point. 
Having failed to discover a proper place for this bird in any of the constituted groups of 
Brachypodina, I have considered it and another species, a little larger, as typical of a new 
group in the short-legged thrushes. The manners and mode of feeding of both species are 
much alike ; they seek their food generally in dense thickets, and when in quest of it, move 
languidly from branch to branch. They usually observe a horizontal course, and unless the 
underwood in which they are discovered be limited, they are rarely noticed either to ascend 
or descend to any great extent. Their food consists of insects. 
