380 COCHIN FLYCATCHER. 



THIS species is five inches and a half in length : 

 its beak is lead-coloured, the base of the under 

 mandible excepted, which is pale : irides bright 

 red : all the upper parts of the plumage are of an 

 olive-brown colour : the quills and tail are deep 

 olive, with white edges : from the gape passing 

 through the eyes is a brownish streak, above which 

 there is a whitish one : the under parts of the 

 plumage are whitish green : legs brownish. 



Found in Carolina in the summer, and in Jamaica 

 in the winter. 



COCHIN FLYCATCHER. 



(Muscicapa cochinsinensis.) 



Mu. olwaceo-fusca subtus rufescens, cauda cuneata, rectricibus 

 tribus exterioribus apice albo nigroque maculatis, 



Olive-brown Flycatcher, beneath reddish ; the tail wedge- 

 shaped ; the three outer feathers spotted at their tips with 

 black and white. 



Muscicapa cochinsinensis. Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. Hi. 17. 



Cochin Flycatcher. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. App. 374. 



BEAK dusky : upper parts of the body olive 

 brown, the forehead darkest : quills dusky, with 

 a white spot on the outer margin : the throat and 

 neck bright whitish red ; the rest of the under 

 parts pale rufous : tail light olive brown, greatly 

 wedged ; the three outer feathers tipped with white, 



