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IX. 



M U S CIGAPA FLAMMEA. 



FLAMMEOUS FLYCATCHER. 



Mufcicapa Flammea, Gmelin. Lin, ii. 942. Forjler Ind. Zool. 25. 

 Flammeous Flycatcher, Latham, iii. 338. Index Oniith. ii. 474. 



'T~^HE bill, head, neck, fore part of the back, and lefler Flammeous 



coverts of the wings, black : reft of the back bright 

 orange or flame-color : primaries partly black, partly 

 orange: breaft and belly of the laft color, finking into 

 pale yellow towards the lower belly : tail dulky yellow 

 towards the point : legs black. ^ 



The upper part of the head, and whole back, of the 

 fuppofed female, is afh-colored: about the cheeks and 

 throat duiky: breaft orange : belly white: acrofs the 

 primaries a flammeous band, bounded above and below 

 with black : tail black above. 



These are inhabitants oi Ceylon. 



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