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MUTABLE FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa mutata.) 



Mu. capite cristato nigro-virescente, cauda cuneata rectricibus in- 



termediis longissimis, palpebris cceruleis. 

 Flycatcher with a blackish-green crested head, a wedge-shaped 



tail, with its two middle feathers longest, and blue eyelids. 

 Muscicapa mutata. Lin. Syst. Nat. l. 347. 2. Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. Q3O. Lath* Ind. Orn. 2. 481. 55. 

 Muscicapa madagascariensis varia longicauda. Briss. Orn. 2. 



430.36.pl. 40. f. 1. 

 Gobe-mouche a longue queue et ventre blanc. Buff. Hist. Nat. 



Ois. 4. 568. Buff. PI. Enl. 248. /. 2. 

 Gobe-mouche & longue queue de Madagascar. Buff. PL Enl. 



248. f. 1. var. 



Schet-all. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 568. var. 

 Schet vouloulou. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 56g.var.' 

 Mutable Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 347. 45. 



AT first sight this greatly resembles the pre- 

 ceding, but it is not much more than half the size, 

 measuring only a foot in length, of which the tail 

 is upwards of seven inches : its beak is blackish : 

 its irides are yellow, and eyelids blue : the head, 

 neck, and back, are greenish black ; the latter is 

 varied with white : the wings black ; with a white 

 fascia: the breast and under parts of the body 

 white : the two middle tail-feathers very long and 

 white, with their shafts and a spot at their tips 

 black ; the rest of them white on their inner, and 

 black on their outer webs : it varies in having the 

 body and tail of a clear cinnamon colour, and in 



