Paradise Flycatcher 



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FIG. 195. Madagascar Paradise Flycatcher, Terpsiphone mutata. 



though it sometimes picks them off a leaf or bough. It breeds both on the 

 plains and in the hills to an altitude of about 5500 feet, placing its nest in a 

 tree, usually at some height above the ground. The nest is cup-shaped, rather 

 shallow, constructed of moss, rootlets, vegetable fibers, and fine grass, inter- 

 woven with cobwebs, lined with finer grass and sometimes horse-hairs." The 



