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WREATHED FLYCATCHER. 



(Muscicapa sinensis.) 



/* virescente-grisea, subtusjlavescens, rostro, capite, pedibusque 

 nigris, gula alba, collo inferiore pectoreque griseis, superciliis 

 albis. 



Greenish-grey Flycatcher, beneath yellowish, with the beak, 

 head, and feet, black ; the throat white ; the lower part of 

 the neck and breast grey ; and the eye-brows white. 



Muscicapa sinensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. Q42. Lath. Ind. Orn. 

 2. 475. 30. 



Le Gobe-mouche verdsUre de la Chine. Sonner. Voy. Ind. 2. 



107- 



Wreathed Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 336. 25. 



THIS bird inhabits China : its beak is black : 

 irides red : eye-brows white : head black : hind 

 part of the neck, rump, wing-coverts, and tail, 

 greenish grey : quills yellow green : fore-part of 

 the neck and breast greyish : the belly and vent pale 

 yellow : legs black : the white line over the eyes 

 is continued to the hind head, giving the bird the 

 appearance of a ring or wreath round that part, 

 from whence it receives its name. 



