242 Major-General Davies's Account of a Species of Mufcicapa. 
flender filaments, like hair, of a black colour. The female is like 
the male in every refpeét, excepting that it has no azure bar over 
the eye, and that it is entirely of a ferruginous colour from the bafe 
of the under-mandible to the vent. 
The natives of New South Wales give the name of Merion Bin- 
nion to this bird, on account of the great refemblance of its tail to 
the feathers of the Caffowary. 
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Since the above account was written, Dr. Shaw has.examined the- 
bird therein defcribed, and has named and characterized it as 
follows : 
MUSCICAPA malachura. 
Soft-tailed Flycatcher. 
M. fufca, fubtus ferruginea; gula (maris?) coerulea; cauda longa 
cuneata, rectricibus decompofitis. 
Brown Flycatcher, ferruginous beneath ; the throat (of the male?) 
blue; the tail long and cuneated, with loofe-webbed feathers, 
Tas. XXI. reprefents the Mu/cicapa malachura, male and female. 
XXII. Obfer= 
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