RED-BELLIED FLYCATCHER. 401 



THE Red-bellied Flycatcher is very abundant 

 in Norfolk Island, in the southern ocean: the male 

 is in length four inches and a half: his beak is 

 black, with the base of the under mandible yellow- 

 ish : the forehead and lower wing-coverts are 

 white : the breast and belly are deep crimson : 

 the vent reddish: the rest of the body, wings, and 

 tail, black : legs very slender, and yellowish brown : 

 the female is brown in those parts where the male 

 is black, and has the space between the beak and 

 eye, and the chin, cinereous brown : the vent, 

 sides, and thighs, yellowish white j and the breast 

 and belly pale orange. 



This appears to be a very variable species, as 

 Dr. Latham commemorates no less than five varie- 

 ties : the first has the head, neck, back, and wings, 

 slaty black : the quills and tail black : the chin 

 and throat pale dusky: forehead with a white spot: 

 breast purplish : belly and vent white : the second 

 has no white on the forehead, but has a white 

 streak over the eye : the chin is also white : the 

 prevailing colour of the plumage is black : the 

 breast and belly crimson : vent white : and tail 

 very short : the next has an oblique white stripe 

 on the wing, and most of the outer tail-feathers 

 white : the fourth has the plumage black above 

 and deep crimson below : forehead with a small 

 white spot just over the beak, and on the wing- 

 coverts are a few faint white markings ; the last 

 has the prevailing colour of the upper parts grey 

 black : the chin, fore-part of the neck, and breast, 

 crimson : spot over the forehead, a broad longitu- 



