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brown, broader on the sides of the throat, and forming an ill- 
defined malar streak: rest of under surface of body dull white, 
purer on the centre of the abdomen, the chest shaded with light 
brown and narrowly streaked with darker brown, these streaks 
becoming nearly obsolete on the lower breast and flanks, the latter 
being more uniform, like the sides of the breast: thighs light 
brown : under tail-coverts white: under wing-coverts orange brown, 
shaded with darker brown in the centre of the feathers: quills ashy 
brown below, dull buffy white along the inner webs: bill brown, 
paler at base of lower mandible; feet black; iris dusky brown. 
Total length, 5-4 inches; culmen, 0°55; wing, 3-4; tail, 2°45; 
tarsus, 0°6. 
Fig. Dresser, B. Hur., part xlv. 
326. Muscicapa UNDULATA. Dusky Grey Flycatcher. 
Muscicapa fuscula, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 148. 
Stated by Le Vaillant to be very common in Outeniqualand and 
Natal. Mr. W. Atmore has procured it at Blanco and at Geneva 
fontein.* Victorin met with it at the Knysna from June to Septem- 
ber, and the late Mr. Andersson also procured several specimens 
there. We have recently received from Lieut. H. Trevelyan, of the 
82nd Light Infantry, a pair of birds shot in the Peri bush near 
Kingwilliamstown, and he informs us that they are not uncommon 
in that locality. Mr. T. C. Atmore has sent it from Eland’s Post, 
and Mr. T..Ayres gives the following note on the species in Natal :— 
«“The sexes of these Flycatchers are very similar in size and 
plumage. They are solitary in their habits, and fond of stationing 
themselves on the bough of some tree, from thence darting upon the 
small insects which fly around them. They also feed upon seeds and 
berries in an equal degree ; and this cannot possibly be for want of 
more congenial food, for imsects of all kinds abound throughout the 
year in Natal, although far more numerous in the hot months.” 
Mr. F. A. Barratt obtained the species at Macamac. 
The present bird may be described as similar to M. grisola, but 
distinguished by its smaller size, darker and more uniform colour 
above, and by the absence of light streaks on the forehead, as well 
* It may not be uninteresting to the general naturalist to know that Mr. 
Atmore’s farm, Geneva fontein, is the site of Le Vaillant’s camp in Outeniqua- 
land, where he so long resided and flirted with the lovely Narina! 
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