LUSCINIM. 
Culicivora Swains.* 
Bill rather lengthened, and rather depressed at the base, with the culmen curved at the tip, which 
emarginated ; the sides much compressed ; the gonys very long and slightly ascending ; the g a P^ 
furnished with very short weak bristles; the nostrils basal, placed in a membranous groove, w 
the opening oblong and exposed. Wings very short, with the first quill very short, and the sec 
shorter than the third ; this is rather shorter than the fourth, which is the longest. Tail length® 
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slender, and graduated. Tarsi longer than the middle toe, slender, and with an entire scale, 
moderate, with the inner toe shorter than the outer, and united at its base; the claws small and i 
curved. 
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The species of this genus are found both in North and South America. They are migratory birds frequ entin f^ te 
skirts of woods, along damp or swampy places and the borders of rivers and pools. Their food consists of n ^ 
insects; these they sometimes seize on the wing with great dexterity, or they may be seen hanging at the extie ereC t 
the branches of trees while searching the buds and foliage. When just alighted on a branch, the tail is usU ' ^ 
and the wing drooping. The nest is formed of dried leaves and fibres of various plants, lined with horsehair a 
of moss. 
The eggs are four or five in number. 
1. C. stenura (Temm.) Swains. PI. col. 167- f. 2. 
2. C. cairulea (Gmel.) Swains. Vieill. Ois. d’Amer. Sept. t. 88., 
Audub. B. of Amer. pi. 84. — Motacilla cana Gmel. 
3. C. leucogastra (Pr. Max.) Beitr. iii. p. 710., PL enl. 704. f. 1. 
. — Culicivora atricapilla Swains. Zool. Illustr. n. s. pi. 57. 
4. C. elegans Less. Zool. Voy. de Thetis, ii. p- 323- 
5. C. dumieola (Vieill.) Hard. — Sylvia cserulea va ’ 
No. 158. ; S. bivittata Licht. 
6. C. budytoides D’Orb. & Lafr. Syn. Av. p. 56. 
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* Established by Mr. Swainson in 1827. Hapalura of M. Cabanis (1847) is coequal. 
August, 1 848. 
