WHITE-BELLIED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscipeta leucogaster, SWAINS. 



PLATE XXIV. 



breath pure white ; back, wings, and tail, rufous ; 

 *nrQafc %nd neck light grey; crown blue-black, furnished 

 >vivn a crest of lengthened, narrow, pointed feathers. 



FOR an acquaintance of this, and several other inte- 

 resting birds from India, our best acknowledge- 

 ments are due to the Countess of Dalhousie, who, 

 during her residence in India, paid much attention 

 to the native birds, and has obligingly communi- 

 cated to us many valuable notes upon their man- 

 ners. From a memorandum attached to the only 

 specimen in the collection, it appears to be a female; 

 yet its superior size to any other of this group we 

 have yet seen, together with the pure white of the 

 under plumages, stamps it at once as a distinct and 

 an unrecorded species. As our knowledge of these 

 long-tailed Flycatchers increases, the more does it 

 appear how much ornithologists have been mis- 

 taken in regarding them as varieties of our species. 

 The size of this bird is considerably above any of 



