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INDIAN FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa Tectec.) 



Mu.fuscapennisrufescente-marginatis,subtus rufescens, collo in- 



Jeriore sordide albo. 

 Brown Flycatcher, with the feathers edged by reddish, beneath 



rufescent ; the under part of the neck dull white. 

 Muscicapa Tectec. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 941. Lath, Ind. Orn. 



2. 473. 20. 



Muscicapa borbonica. Briss. Orn. 2, 360. 2. pi. 3Q.f. 1. 

 Indian Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 334. 16. 



SIZE of Muscicapa Grisola : length four inches 

 and a half: beak brown; legs the same: head, 

 hind part of the neck, and upper parts of the body, 

 brown, varied with a few spots of rufous : quills 

 brown, tipped with rufous : throat and fore-part 

 of the neck dirty white : lower part of the body 

 pale rufous : tail brown, edged with rufous : female 

 dirty white, where the male is rufous. Inhabits 

 the Isle of Bourbon. 



