(SCHULZ'S DIPPER.)
[Plate II.]
[Illustration: CINCLUS SCHULZI.]
+Cinclus schulzi+, _Cab. J. f. O._ 1883, p. 102, t. ii. fig. 3.
_Description._--Dark grey; throat pale rufous; a broad bar on the
inner webs of the wing-feathers white: total length 5·5 inches, wing
3·0, tail 1·6.
_Hab._ Northern Argentina.
A recent discovery of Herr Fritsch Schulz, who obtained specimens of it
on the Cerro Vayo of Tucuman, where this species, like others of the
genus, frequents the mountain-streams.
Fam. III. MUSCICAPIDÆ, or FLYCATCHERS.
The peculiar genus _Polioptila_, which contains some twelve or thirteen
species of small-sized American birds, ranging from the United States to
the Argentine Republic, has been variously arranged by naturalists, but
seems to be more nearly related to the African genus _Stenostira_ than
to any other known form. I therefore now place it with the Muscicapidæ,
or Flycatchers, of which it is the only genus found in the New World.