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YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT. 
extraordinary; as neither in the particular structure of its 
bill, tongue, feet, nor in its food or manners, has it any affinity 
whatever to that genus. Some other ornithologists have 
removed it to the Tanagers ; but the bill of the Chat, when 
compared with that of the Summer Red Bird in the same 
plate, bespeaks it at once to be of a different tribe. Besides, 
the Tanagers seldom lay more than two or three eggs; the Chat 
usually four : the former build on trees ; the latter in low 
thickets. In short, though this bird will not exactly corre- 
spond with any known genus, yet the form of its bill, its food, 
and many of its habits, would almost justify us in classing it 
with the genus Pipra (Manakin), to which family it seems 
most nearly related. 
The Yellow-breasted Chat is seven inches long, and nine 
inches in extent ; the whole upper parts are of a rich and deep 
olive green, except the tips of the wings, and interior vanes of 
the wing and tail-feathers, which are dusky brown ; the whole 
throat and breast is of a most brilliant yellow, which also lines 
the inside of the wings, and spreads on the sides immediately 
below ; the belly and vent are white ; the front, slate coloured, 
or dull cinereous ; lores, black ; from the nostril, a line of 
white extends to the upper part of the eye, which it nearly 
encircles ; another spot of white is placed at the base of the 
lower mandible, the bill is strong, slightly curved, sharply 
ridged on the top, compressed, overhanging a little at the tip, 
not notched, pointed, and altogether black; the tongue is 
tapering, more fleshy than those of the Muscicapa tribe, and a 
little lacerated at the tip ; the nostril is oval, and half covered 
with an arching membrane ; legs and feet, light blue, hind 
claw rather the strongest, the two exterior toes united to the 
second joint. 
The female may be distinguished from the male by the black 
and white adjoining the eye being less intense or pure than in 
the male ; and in having the inside of the mouth of a dirty 
flesh colour, which, in the male, is black ; in other respects, 
their plumage is nearly alike. 
