"WALKING DRONGO. 
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As to the plumage, nothing can he added to the 
specific character. The entire bird is of a deep and 
uniform brownish black, without any variation of 
tint ; the bill and legs are also the same. 
Total length, 8f ; bill from the gape, T B 3 ; wings, 
4 ; tail beyond, 3 ; from the base, 4^ ; tarsus, r 9 6 
hind-toe and claw, §§ ; middle ditto, T 9 5 . 
YELLOW-THROATED SHORT- FOOT. 
Hamatomis flavicoUis, Swains. 
Olive-brown ; paler beneath ; chin and part of the throat 
pale yellow. 
Western Africa, and the same parallels of latitude 
in equinoctial India, abound in the Braehipodince, 
or short-legged thrushes ; so strictly do they appear 
confined to these limits, that not one has yet been 
discovered to our knowledge in the New World, 
or even in the warm latitudes of Australia. We 
have already given many details on this group, and 
characterized what appeared to he the five leading 
variations or sub-genera*. One of these we named 
Hcematornis. Nearly about the same time the same 
name was proposed for what was considered a genus 
of Falco ; but this supposed genus was not charac- 
terized until long after the appearance of our prior 
definition. As it is an admitted law of nomencla- 
* North. Zool. ii. p. 485. 
