352 WHISKERED FLYCATCHER. 



" SIZE of a Chaffinch : length six inches : ge- 

 neral colour of the plumage olive green on the 

 upper parts ; yellowish white beneath: chin and 

 vent yellow : quills ferruginous : legs dusky. In- 

 habits New Caledonia:" described as above by 

 Dr. Latham. 



WHISKERED FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa barbata.) 



Mu. olivaceo-fusca, subtus uropygioque virescente-flava, vertice 



aurantio. 

 Olive-brown Flycatcher, beneath and rump greenish yellow; 



crown orange. 

 Muscicapa barbata. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 933. Lath. Ind. Orn. 



2.488.86. 

 Le Barbichon de Cayenne. Buff. PI. Enl. 830. /. 1. l.Buff. 



Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 534. 

 Whiskered Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 364. 77. 



THE beak of this bird is armed with strong 

 bristles at its base, which are rather larger than 

 the beak itself: the upper parts of the plumage 

 are deep olive brown, the crown of the head, which 

 is orange, excepted : the under parts are greenish 

 yellow : the rump nearly yellow : legs brown : 

 length about five inches : the female has the upper 

 parts blackish brown tinged with green : the throat 

 and upper part of the neck whitish : the lower 



