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Slightly-crested Flycatcher, brown above, white beneath, with 



the middle of the quills and base of the tail rose-coloured. 

 Muscicapa rhodoptera. Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. li. g. 

 Rose-winged Flycatcher. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 222. 20. 



THE Rose- winged Flycatcher is an inhabitant of 

 many parts of New South Wales : its beak, legs, 

 and upper parts of its body, are brown : the feathers 

 on the crown of the head have somewhat the ap- 

 pearance of a crest, and are slightly spotted with 

 black : the under parts of the body are white : the 

 middle of the greater quills, and the four middle 

 tail-feathers, are rose-coloured; the latter are orna- 

 mented with a few black spots. 



AZURE FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa caerulea.) 



Mu. carulea nitens f subtus ccerule&centi alba, macula occipitis 



pectorisque nigra. 

 Shining blue Flycatcher, beneath blueish white, with a spot on 



the hind head, and over the breast black. 

 Muscicapa caerulea. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 943. Lath. Ind< Orn. 



2. 4/6. 36. 



Le petit Azur. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 554. 

 Le Gobe-mouche bleu des Philippines. Buffi PI. Enl. 666. f. 1. 

 Azure Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 33Q. Lath. Syn. Sup. 



172. 30. 



INHABITS the Philippine Islands and India : its 

 length is six inches: its beak is black: the pre- 

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