276 FOOL’S-COAT—FORK TAIL 
golden-yellow. Arses has the skin round the eyes bare and of some 
bright colour. The Australian forms assigned to the Muscicaprdx 
a, CRYPTOLOPHA ; b,c, ,e, My1acRa; f, TERPSIPHONE; g, Muscrcapa; h, Hyiiora. 
(After Swainson. ) 
are very varied, and probably require much further scrutiny. 
Sisura inquicta, for instance, has some of the habits of a Water- 
WacraiL, Motacilla, and hence has received from the colonists the 
PIEZORHYNCHUS CHRYSOMELAS, PLATYSTIRA, ARSES TELESCOPHTHALMUS. 
(After Swainson.) 
name of “ Dishwasher,” bestowed in many parts of England on its 
analogue ;! and the many species of Rhipidura or F antailed 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 JM/uscicapidx, and 
especially of the numerous African forms, hardly anything is known. 
FOOL’S-COAT, according to Sir Thomas Browne (/Vorks, ed. 
Wilkin, iv. p. 323), a name of the GOLDFINCH, referring of course 
to its gaudy and particoloured plumage. 
FORKTAIL, of old time used in England for the Kirr, but 
now applied in India to the birds of the genus Henicurus,? a small 
group, the position of which has long been doubtful, several system- 
atists referring it to the Motacillidx (WAGTAIL), to some members 
of which there i is undoubtedly a strong outward resemblance, while 
other methodists, as Blyth (Cat. B. Mus. Asiat. Sov. p. 159), Cabanis 
(Mus. Hein. i. p. 11), and Sundevall (Tentam. p. 5) placed it next to 
1 Another name for it is GRINDER. 
9 Ovid . . site . 
* Originally and even now sometimes written Hnicurus, but incorrectly. 
