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PETECHIAL FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa petechia.) 



Mu. fusca subtus cinerea rujb-maculata, gutture crissoque rufis. 

 Brown Fly catcher, with the under parts of the body ash-coloured, 



spotted with rufous ; the throat and vent rufous. 

 Muscicapa petechia. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 328. 19. Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. Q48. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 486. 75. 

 Muscicapa murtinicana fusca. Briss. Orn. 2. 361. 4. pi. 38.y. I . 

 Le Moucherolle brun de la Martinique. Buffi Hist. Nat. Ois. 



4. 563. 



Gobe-mouche brun de la Martinique. Buff. PL Enl. 568.j 2. 

 Petechial Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 360. 66. 



THIS species inhabits Martinique : it is six inches 

 and a half in length : its beak and legs are black : 

 the upper parts of the body are deep brown : the 

 quills plain brown : the throat rufous : the fore- 

 part of the neck and breast cinereous brown : 

 belly and vent cinereous, varied with rufous spots : 

 under tail-coverts rufous : tail brown : all the 

 feathers but the two middle ones margined with 

 paler brown and white. 



