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PARADISE FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa Paradisi.) 



Mu. capite cristato nigro-virescente, cor pore albo, cauda cuneata f 



rectricibus intermediis longissimis. 

 Flycatcher with a crested blackish-green head, white body, 



wedge-shaped tail, with the two middle feathers very long. 

 Muscicapa Paradisi. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 324. 1. GmeL Syst. 



Nat. 1. giQ.Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 481. 54. 

 Muscicapa cristata alba Capitis Bonae Spei. Briss. Orn. 2. p. 



4l4.2Q.pl. 41. f. 2. 

 Le Moucherolle huppe tete couleur d'acier poli. Buff, Hist. 



Nat. Ois.4. 558. 



Pied bird of Paradise. Edwards. Glean, pi. 113. 

 Paradise Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 345. 44. Lath. Syn. 



Sup. 172. x. 



/3. castanea subtus alba, collo inferior e pectoreque griseis. 

 Chesnut-coloured, beneath white, with the lower part of the 



neck and the breast grey. 



Muscicapa Paradisi. /3. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 48O. 54. 

 Muscicapa cristata Capitis Bonae Spei. Briss. Orn. 2. 418. 31. 



pi. 4l.f. 1. 

 y. pectore ceerulescente. 

 With a caerulean breast. 

 Crested long-tailed Pye. Edwards. Glean. 325. 



THIS singular and variable bird is about the 

 size of a Lark in the body, but measures upwards 

 of twenty inches in length, owing to its long and 

 disproportioned tail, which is generally about four- 

 teen inches long : its beak is dusky : its head, 

 hind part of the neck, and throat, are greenish 

 black ; the feathers on the former are very long, 



