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PLATYRHYNCHUS. 
that the males, like that of P. eancromus, are dis- 
tinguished by a concealed crest, an ornament so 
common among the fly-catching groups of America ; 
but of which we do not know of more than one 
example in the flycatchers of the Old W orld. 
YELLOW-CRESTED FLAT-BILL. 
Platyrhynchus eancromus, Temminck. 
PLATE XVII. 
Above light brown j beneath fulvous-yellow ; throat white ; 
crown with a concealed crest of pure yellow. 
Todus platyrhynchus, Amt . — Platyrhynchus eancromus, 
Temm., PI. Col. 12, fig. 1. • 
Hitherto we hare only seen one bird out of all 
those broad-billed flycatchers which have been called 
Platyr/iynchi , which really belongs to this subgenus, 
as at present defined. There is, nevertheless, what 
appears to be a second, having a white crest, figured 
by Desmarest and Yieillot, and by the latter stated 
as a native of Senegal, a locality which we feel 
assured must be erroneous, since there has not been 
one land bird yet discovered which is a native both 
of tropical Africa and tropical America. In the 
