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coverts, and tail, pale chesnut; middle coverts 

 black, tipped with rufous ; greater ones the same, 

 with white tips : quills black, edged with chesnut : 

 throat, under parts of the body, and rump, cine- 

 reous : legs brown. Inhabits the Isle of Bourbon. 



SOCIETY FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa nigra.) 



Mu. tot a nigra , rostro, capite, interscapulio pedibusque atris. 

 Flycatcher entirely black, with the beak, head, spot between 



the shoulders, and feet, darkest. 

 Muscicapa nigra. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 947. Lath. Ind. Orn. J . 



474. 24. 

 Society Flycatcher. Lath. Syn. Sup. 174. 84. 



INHABITS the Society Islands, in the Pacific 

 Ocean : it is in length six inches : beak stout and 

 black : the whole plumage is black, but darkest 

 on the head and between the shoulders : the legs 

 are also black. 



