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FOOLS-CO A T—FORKTAIL 



golden-yellow. Aues has the skin round the eyes bare and of some 

 bright colour. The Australian forms assigned to the 3'Iuscicapidx 



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a, Cryptolopha ; h, c, d, e, Myiaora ; /, Terpsiphoke ; g, Muscicapa ; h, Hyliota. 



(After Swainson.) 



are very varied, and probably require much further scrutiny. 

 Sisura inqaieta, for instance, has some of the habits of a Water- 

 Wagtail, Motacilla, and hence has received from the colonists the 



PlEZORHYNCHDS CHRTSOMELAS. 



Plattstira. 

 (After Swainson.) 



Arses telescophthalmus. 



name of " Dishwasher," bestowed in many parts of England on its 

 analogue;^ and the many species of Ehipidura or Fantailed Fly- 

 catchers, which occur in various parts of the Australian Region, 

 have manners still more singular — turning over in the air, it is 

 said, like a Tumbler Pigeon, as they catch their prey ; but con- 

 cerning the mode of life of the majority of the Muscicapidx, and 

 especially of the numerous African forms, hardly anything is known. 



FOOL'S-COAT, according to Sir Thomas Browne (JFnrh, ed. 

 Wilkin, iv. p. 323), a name of the Goldfinch, referring of course 

 to its gaudy and particoloured plumage. 



FOE KT AIL, of old time used in England for the Kitp:, but 

 now applied in India to the birds of the genus Henicunis,'- a small 

 group, the position of which has long been doubtful, several system- 

 atists referring it to the Motacillidx (Wagtail), to some meml)ers 

 of which there is undoubtedly a strong outward resemblance, while 

 other methodists, as Blyth {Cat. B. Mus. Anat. Soc. p. 159), Cabanis 

 {Mas. Ilein. i. p. 11), and Sundevall (Tentam. p. 5) placed it next to 



' Anotlier name for it is Orinder. 

 - Originally and even now sometimes written Enicurus, but incorrectly. 



