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CAPE FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa torquata.) 



Mu. nigra, subtus alba, pectore rufo, remigilus intimis apice ullris. 

 Black Flycatcher, beneath white, with the breast rufous; the 



inner webs of the tail-feathers white. 

 Muscicapa torquata. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 328. 17, male. GmeL 



Syst. Nat. 1. Q45.Briss. 3. 37Q. 12. pi. 36. f. 4. Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 468. 3. 

 Muscicapa capensis. Lin. Syst. Nat. \. 32%. 1(5. female. 



Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 045. female. Briss. Orn. 2. 3/2. Q.pl. 36. 

 f. 3. female. 

 Gobe-mouche a collier du Cap de Bonne Esperance. Buff. PI. 



Enl. 572. f. 1. male. 

 Gobe-mouche du Cap de Bonne Esperance. Buff. PI. Enl. 572. 



/. i. female. 

 Cape Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 326. 3. 



THE Cape Flycatcher is the size of the Pied 

 one : its beak is dusky : its head, throat, back, 

 wings, and tail, are black : the sides of its neck 

 white, ending in a narrow collar behind : the 

 breast rufous : the belly, thighs, vent, and spot in 

 the middle of the wing, white : legs brown : the 

 female is brown on the upper parts of her body: 

 the breast is black : the tail is tipped with white ; 

 and the outer feather is nearly all white : the 

 wing-coverts have a rufous bar across them : in 

 other respects she is similar. Inhabits the Cape 

 of Good Hope. 



