. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Instution. [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. â ' * ;. w ,-'^' n ,v!m 418 REVIKW OF AMEUICAN BIRDS. [I'ART r. Btoat, moderately duprenfled, rectilinear viewed from above. Hind toe and claw shorter than inner lateral, 'lail slightly graduated on Mm. Throat plain. Platyolchla. Plumage and wing as in Cichlopnii. Commissure considernMy arched. Bill attenuated ; lateral outlines decidedly concave viewed from 'â ', above; lower mandible much weaker tlian in Cichlofms. Hind toe and ' olaw longer than inner lateral. Toes more deeply cleft. Tail sli
. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Instution. [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. â ' * ;. w ,-'^' n ,v!m 418 REVIKW OF AMEUICAN BIRDS. [I'ART r. Btoat, moderately duprenfled, rectilinear viewed from above. Hind toe and claw shorter than inner lateral, 'lail slightly graduated on Mm. Throat plain. Platyolchla. Plumage and wing as in Cichlopnii. Commissure considernMy arched. Bill attenuated ; lateral outlines decidedly concave viewed from 'â ', above; lower mandible much weaker tlian in Cichlofms. Hind toe and ' olaw longer than inner lateral. Toes more deeply cleft. Tail slightly f. rounded. Throat streaked. ^ ^ 1 r ^ V t li( â¢! si! i I MYIAnESTES, Swainson. - . ! Mijiadestes, Swainson, Jard. Nat. Library, XIII. Flycatchers, "1838," 132. (Type iW. genibarhiB, ^v.) ,. , , .!'»" Plumage soft, loose, and full, especially on the flanks and over tliiglis. Body slender, depressed; the wings much pointed, and reaching nearly to. Jlijindcstea unJItarhm, Baikd. (Jamaica.) (BUI and foot uatural «ize ; wiug aad tail three-fourtlm.) middle of lengthened tail; abont equal to the tail. Bill weak, short and broad, much depressed ; the gape very wide ; the commissure, which is almost perfectly straight, more than half distance from nostril to tip of "bill; ridge well marked ; keel less distinct. Culmen straight to near tip, then decnrved, hooked, with distinct notch in both tips. Nostrils oval, nearly lateral, with overhanging membrane; the frontal feathers coming to posterior edge, beud- ing more and more forwards and mixed with bristles. Legs rather weak- Tarsus much compressed, without scutellse, which are fused into one plate, with perhaps a single division at lower end anteriorly, and one, sometimes two, on outer edge. Toes and claws slender and leugtii- ened ; hind claw about equal to middle. Outer lateral toe a little longer than inner, and reaching a little beyond the base of middle. Inner toe cleft to base of basal joint; b
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