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with which it agrees in its even tail : its bill, how- 
ever, is that of Muscipeta, its long wings those of 
Muscicapa, while its excessively short feet are with- 
out parallel in this family. The upper plumage is 
of the darkest black, glossed with sea-green, and 
this colour extends in front of the throat so far as 
to cover the breast ; the rest of the under plumage 
is white, varied with black on the flanks ; the hill 
is unusually long and very flat ; the tip abruptly 
hooked ; the crown has a lengthened procumbent 
crest which ends in a point, and the tail is so short 
as hardly to exceed the wings. At the base of the 
primaries is a conspicuous white spot; bill and 
thighs black ; feet bright yellow, stout ; the claws 
strong, compressed, and deep black ; anterior scales 
of the tarsi divided into irregular hexagons. 
FINIS. 
EDINBURGH : 
PRINTED BV W. H. LIZAKS. 
