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not whether they came from Australia or the East 

 Indies. 



The size, for a Flycatcher, is rather large ; the 

 total length heing eight inches and a half. Nearly 

 the whole of the upper plumage is of a deep and 

 uniform hlack, which envelopes the head, chin, 

 and half of the neck beneath, the quills alone are 

 brown; a pure white line commences above the 

 lores and passes over the eye, and all those wing- 

 covers which are nearest to the carpus have a round 

 white terminal spot ; the sides of the neck, breast, 

 and flanks, are of the same deep black as the up- 

 per part, but we cannot trace any indication of this 

 colour advancing so far on the breast as to form an 

 obsolete or interrupted pectoral band. The under 

 plumage, from the lower part of the neck, is en- 

 tirely white ; inner wing-covers black, with a few 

 white specks. 



Total length, 8 inches; bill, gape, f ; front, 5 %; 

 wings, 3^ ; tail beyond, 2 ; from the base, 4 ; 

 tarsus, nearly 1. 



As the fourth type in the circle, and following 

 the last, we place the sub-genus 



