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BUFF-BODIED FLYCATCHER. 



Hyliota flavigaster^ SWAINS. 

 PLATE XXVIII. 



Plumage, in the male, glossy blue-black ; in the female, ci- 

 nereous; beneath, in both, ochraceous yellow; wing-co- 

 vers and rump with a band of white. 



Hyliota fiavigaster, West. Afr. Birds, ii. 



As we have given a full description of this species 

 in the work above quoted, a shorter one will here 

 suffice. The male has the upper plumage deep and 

 glossy blue-black, where that of the female is deep 

 grey, inclining to cinereous ; the quills are paler and 

 browner, but their outer edges are glossy ; the sides 

 of the head and ears are like the back ; the feathers 

 of the rump are long, soft, and pure white ; but 

 the tail-covers are small and glossy black. The 

 female has the quills, and some of the lateral tail- 

 feathers, with a narrow whitish margin. In both 

 sexes, the greater and lesser wing-covers are pure 

 white, continued, in the female, in a stripe along 

 one or two of the tertials ; the under parts are buff- 

 yellow, deepest on the breast, and lightest in the 

 female ; bill and feet black. 



Total length, 5 inches ; bill, gape, T 7 <y ; front, 

 not quite \ \ wings, 2^ ; tail beyond, T ft 5 ; base, |; 

 tarsus, T V 



