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vadersbosch, and sent us the nest and eggs with the birds. The 
nest is cup-shaped, placed in the fork of a tree, and covered with 
moss and lichens. The eggs, two in number, are pale cream-colour, 
profusely spotted and blotched in a band near the thick end with 
red brown and purple, much resembling those of T’. cristata: axis, 
8”; diam- 6”. Lieut. Herbert Trevelyan has recently sent us a 
Specimen killed in the Peri bush near Kingwilliamstown, and Dr. 
Atherstone tells us that it has been found near Grahamstown. In 
Natal it has been met with by Mr. Thomas Ayres, who writes as 
follows :—“In habits these Flycatchers are excessively active, in- 
cessantly hopping and flying from twig to twig amongst the under- 
Wood in search of small flies and beetles, When thus employed, they 
frequently expand the tail to its fullest extent, sometimes perpen- 
dicularly, then to one side or the other, and again downwards, which 
has a very pretty effect. Their note is harsh, and much resembles 
that of the 7. cristata.” 
Adult male.—General colour above light grey with a bluish gloss : 
head crested, bright steel-green, as also the sides of the head and 
the throat : sides of neck grey, glossed with steel-green: lesser and 
median wing-coverts dark grey glossed with steel-green ; greater 
series black, slightly edged with greenish and narrowly tipped with 
white, the innermost of this series white on the outer web, forming 
@ conspicuous white longitudinal patch with the innermost secon- 
daries , which are entirely pure white, all the rest of the quills 
blackish : tail blackish, undulated with dusky under certain lights, 
the outer webs of the feathers washed with grey: under surface of 
body white, the bases of all the feathers greyish, the flanks also 
slightly washed with grey: under wing-coverts and axillaries white, 
the outermost coverts and the edge of the wing grey: “ bill, tarsi 
and feet slate colour: iris dusky.” (Ff. A. Barratt). Total length, 
5°2 inches ; culmen, 0°5 ; wings, 2°6; tail, 3-1; tarsus, 0:7. 
Adult female.—Differs from the male in having the back washed 
with olive-brown, as also the sides of the face: crown of head 
slightly crested, metallic greyish steel-blue: lores and cheeks 
whitish, mottled with grey bases to the feathers: under surface of 
body white, the flanks washed with olive-brown: the throat also 
white, mottled with greyish bases to the feathers. Total length, 
_ 5°8 inches; wing, 2°6 ; tail, 3-1; tarsus, 0°7. 
Fig. Lo Vaill. Ois. d’Afr., pl. 151. 
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