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NJEVOUS FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa naevia.) 



Mu. nigricans subtus pallidior, dorso media humerisque albo- 



nebulosis. 

 Dusky Flycatcher, beneath paler, with the middle of the back 



and shoulders clouded with white. 

 Muscicapa naevia. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1 . g44. Lath. Ind. Qrn. 



2. 479- 49- 

 Naevous Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 343. 39. 



ACCORDING to Dr. Latham, this species is eight 

 inches and three quarters in length : its beak and 

 legs are black : the irides are pale cinereous : the 

 eyelids black : the plumage above dusky black ; 

 below pale dusky : middle of the back and shoul- 

 ders marked with white : legs black. Inhabits 

 New Caledonia* 



COACH-WHIP FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa crepitans. ) 



Mu. cristata atra-cinerea, cauda subcuneiformi, gula striis trans- 



versis albis. 

 Dark-cinereous crested Flycatcher, with a wedge-shaped tail, 



and throat with transverse white stripes. 

 Muscicapa crepitans. Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. li. 10. 

 Coach-whip Flycatcher. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 222. 2i. 



THIS singular species has obtained the name of 

 Coach-whip Bird in New South Wales, from the 

 peculiarity of its note, which has some resem- 



