RUFOUS-VENTED FLYCATCHER. 



its nest is made excessively neat, and of the shape 

 of an inverted cone : it is composed of bits of 

 sticks, dry stalks, weeds, paper, and such like, 

 woven together with skill, and lined with dry 

 grass: this bird lays five pure white eggs, with 

 black spots at the large end : it has two broods in 

 the year. 



RUFOUS-VENTED FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa rufiventris.) 



Mu. nigro, aldomine cri-sso macula alarum basique cauda fulvo* 



rufis. 

 Black Flycatcher, with the abdomen, vent, spot on the wings, 



and base of the tail, yellowish red. 

 Muscicapa rufiventris. Lath . Ind. Orn. 2. 473 . 2 1 . Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1.941. 



L Gobe-mouche de 1'isle de Bourbon. Buff. PL Enl. 5?2.f. 1. 

 Rufous- vented Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 334. 1?. 



THIS, which is said to inhabit the Isle of 

 Bourbon, is not quite five inches in length : it is 

 entirely black, with the exception of the vent, 

 spot on the wing, and under tail-coverts, which 

 are rufous : legs pale red. 



v. x. p. n. 24 



