SETOPHAGA picta. 
Painted Flycatcher. 
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Family Muscicapide. 
GENERIC CHaracTER.—See Lesson Man. 2 p. 430. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Black; breast and middle of the body crimson; greater wing 
covers, and three external tail feathers, snowy. 
In Mus. D. Taylor. 
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A spEcIMEN of this richly-coloured bird was sent to John 
Taylor, Esq., F.G.S., &c., from Real del Monte, in 
Mexico. It is not only new to Ornithologists, but forms 
a beautiful addition to a geographic group, originally 
founded upon one species. 
The figure is the size of life. The bristles at the bill are 
compact, rigid, and all directed forwards: under tail covers 
and thighs whitish: the white band on the wings occupies. 
the greater covers, and the tips of the lesser: the quill 
covers are also margined with white: the extreme base of 
the three outer tail feathers are more or less black. 
The characters upon which we formed this group, con- 
fine it strictly to birds of the New World. For although 
the habits of the typical species evince a marked affinity to 
the Fantailed Flycatchers of Australia, the construction of 
their wing's is totally different. ‘The disposition of the black 
and crimson colours on our bird, will remind the Ornitho- 
logist of the Red-bellied Flycatcher of Latham, of which, 
in fact, it is nearly an exact prototype. But this resem- 
blance, however strong, appears to us to be one of analogy, 
rather than of affinity. We consequently consider the 
Muscicapa Multicolor, Lathami, and Goodenovia, of MM. 
Horsfield and Vigors, as more truly belonging to the family 
of Sylviade. 
