RUFOUS FLYCATCHER. 389 



dusky, the lower grey : the head, hind part, and 

 sides of the neck, deep cinereous : the shafts of 

 the feathers on the crown dusky: back rufous 

 brown ; wings the same, edged with pale rufous : 

 throat and fore-part of the neck ash-colour, edged 

 with whitish : breast, upper tail-coverts, and rump, 

 bright rufous: belly and vent pale rufous: tail 

 similar to the rump : legs brown : varies in having 

 the belly yellowish white. 



RUFOUS FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa rufescens.) 



Mu. rufescente nitens subtus rufo-alba, remigibus nigris> vertice 



, macula rufa. 

 Shining reddish Flycatcher, beneath reddish white, with the 



quills black, the crown with a rufous spot. 

 Muscicapa rufescens. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 932. Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 487- 82. 

 Le Gobe-mouche roux de Cayenne. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 



549. Buff. Pl.Enl. 453.f. 1. 

 Rufous Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 362. 73. 



INHABITS Cayenne: length five inches and a 

 half: beak stout and dusky: the crown of the 

 head with a rufous brown spot : the upper parts 

 of the plumage of a pale rufous : the quills black: 

 the under parts of the body entirely white, with a 

 slight tinge of rufous: legs dusky. 



