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Total length, 7;^ inches ; beak to gape, 9 lines ; to front, 6 lines ; 
height, 2^ lines; breadth at gape, 6 lines ; wing, 3 inches 10 lines; 
medial rectrices, 3^ inches; external, 3 inches 1 line; tarsus, 
10 lines; middle toe and claw, 9 lines; hind ditto, 7 lines. 
Habitat. Fernando Po, West Africa. 
“ The rufous colouring of the plumage is very similar to that 
of Tchitreaj Less. Anct.), but the beak is much 
shorter and more triangular than in that genus. In its general 
structure and proportions this bird seems to approach the re- 
stricted genus Muscicapa more closely than any other group. 
The form of the beak is almost exactly that of the Miiscicapia 
latirosirisj Sw., of India, and the legs are much shorter than is 
usual in toriestrial birds. Notwithstanding these characters, 
IMr. Fraser’s notes state, that ^ this bird feeds on the ground, and 
has the motions and plump appearance of the robin.’ The 
irides are hazel. The beak is strong, depressed, very broad, the 
sides straight when viewed from above, and the base furnished 
with bristles of moderate length. The first quill is subspnrious, 
one inch long; the second is half an inch shorter than the third ; 
the fourth is the longest. Tarsi short, the acrotarsia and para- 
tarsia entire; outer toe slightly longer than the inner one, its first 
phalanx attached to the middle toe; claws curved, compressed, 
sharp; tail rounded. 
Mr. Strickland named this species after Mr. Fraser, who 
brought that species and many other very interesting ones from 
West Africa. 
Miiscipeta tricolor. (Fraser, in Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 
Jan., 1843.) 
Muse, crista et mento nitide nigris; corpore superiore cinereo; 
inferiore rufo, rostro pedibusque pallide cceruleis : cauda — 1 
Long. tot. — ? poll.; rostri, If; alio, ; caudte, — ? tarsi, f. 
Habitat. Clarence, Fernando Po. 
Miiscipeta SmitML (Fraser, in Proo. Zool Soc. Lond., 
Feb., 1843.) 
Muse, corpore pallide rufo, cauda, alisque nigrescentibus, 
cinereo-lavatis; capite, collo, rostro, pedibusque nigris. 
