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CRIMSON-BELLIED FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa coccinigastra.) 



Mu. olivacea, gula alba, pectore abdomineque coccineis, fronte 



nigra, remigibus rectricibusque albo nigroque dimidiatis. 

 Olive Flycatcher, with a white throat ; the breast and belly 



crimson ; the forehead black ; the quills and tail half black, 



half white. 



Muscicapa coccinigastra. Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. I. 6. 

 Crimson-bellied Flycatcher. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 221. 1?. pi. 



134. 



THIS scarce bird is described by Dr. Latham 

 as being " five inches and a half in length : beak 

 and legs pale brown : plumage olive brown above, 

 but from the base of the beak to the middle of the 

 crown, taking in the eye, black, and passing back- 

 wards into a point on the ears : the chin and sides 

 of the neck are white : breast and belly deep 

 crimson : the wings are black, but the quills are 

 white half way from the base : tail longish : the 

 two middle feathers wholly black, the others the 

 same half way from the base, the rest of the length 

 white : the wings reach one third on the tail. 

 Inhabits New South Wales. " 



