BUFF- BODIED FLYCATCHER. 
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at the base, but compressed beyond the nostrils, 
while the bristles of the gape are so small and weak 
as to become obsolete. The tarsus is much longer 
than the bind toe and claw, the latter of which is 
broad and much curved; the inner toe is much 
shorter than the outer. 
Total length, 5 inches ; bill, from the base, f r> ; 
from the front, not quite ; wings, 2 T 7 „ ; tail 
beyond, T fl 5 ; ditto from the base, If ; tarsus, T 7 g . 
SPECTACLE FYLCATCHER. 
Platystera lobata, Swains. 
Male Above glossy blue-black, with an angulated stripe of 
white on the wings ; beneath white, with a black bar upon 
the breast ; lobe of the eye red. 
P. collaris, Jardine and Selby, Illust. of Om. pi. 9, fig. 1 
Mus. melanoptera, Gm. fide Mus. Paris. 
Female — Above cinereous ; chin white ; throat chestnut. 
P. Desmarestii, Jardine and Selby, Illust. of Om. pi. 9, fig. 2. 
Naked wattles, and other fleshy appendages on the 
head, are well known to be common among the 
gallinaceous birds and also the exotic plovers, but 
they are rarely seen in the perching order, and are 
then almost solely confined to fleshy lobes around 
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