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ASH-COLOURED FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa cana.) 



Mu. cinerea, capite saturation, rectricibus nigris, duabus ex- 



timis apice cinerascentibus, remigibus intus albis. 

 Ash-coloured Flycatcher, beneath darker, with the tail-feathers 



black ; the two outer ones tipped with ash-colour, and the 



quills white on their inner webs. 

 Muscicapa cana. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 940. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 



472. 16. 

 Muscicapa madagascariensis cinerea major. Briss. Orn. 2. 38Q. 



Le Kinki-manou. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 584. 



Grand Gobe-mouche cendre Madagascar. Buff. PL Enl. 541. 



Ash-coloured Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 332. 13. 



THIS species inhabits Madagascar: it is eight 

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

 black : the head, throat, and nape, dusky cinere- 

 ous ; the rest of the neck and the upper part of 

 the plumage clear ash : the quills dusky, with grey 

 edges : lower parts of the body pale ash : vent 

 white : tail black ; the two middle feathers ash- 

 colour, with dusky tips, and the outer one on each 

 side pale ash-colour at their tips. 



