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the Paris museum, upon which, we detected that a 

 fals& mil had heen engrafted; this presumed tail 

 was black and even, and so dissimilar in its general 

 structure to those possessed hy this group, that we 

 had strong doubts, even at that time, that it was 

 genuine. 



Total length, with the tail, 8| inches ; bill, from 

 the front, 3%; ditto, from the gape, f ; wings, 

 3 T 2 Q ; tail beyond, 4^ ; ditto, from the base, 6 ; 

 tarsus, J; middle tail-feather 2 longer than the 

 others. 



BLACK-BELLIED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscipeta melanogasta, SWAINS. 



Crest, head, neck, and breast, black, glossed with chalybeate- 

 blue ; body beneath, in the young bird, grey-black ; back, 

 tail, and under covers, rufous ; wings, black and rufous, the 

 colours divided by a white stripe. 



IN size and general proportions, this very elegant 

 species resembles the last we have described. It 

 seems, however, to be less uncommon, and it is 

 readily distinguished by the under parts of the body 

 being of a glossy black. On a cursory view we sup- 

 posed it to be the species described by Le Yaillant 

 under the name of Le Gobe moucke Tchitrec ; but 

 upon referring to his figures, and still more by com- 



