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RED-BELLIED 
FL. 
DESCRIPTION 
FLY CACHER. 
fpecies. The Evglifb named it, as well as the laft, the 2eZow-eared 
Flycatcher: is faid to feed principally on honey, which it obtains from 
the flowers, by means of its feathery tongue: makes the neft on the 
extreme pendent branches of low trees or {hrubs, and by’ this means 
efcapes the plunder of various fmaller’quadrupeds, who are unable to 
reach the neft with fafety. Whether this is allied to the laft, 1 will 
net take upon me to afcertain. 
Mofcicapa erythrogaftra, Ind. Ora. ii. p. 479. 30.—Nat. Mic. xlix. pl: 147. 
Red-bellied Flycatcher, Gen. Syz. il. p. 343. pl. so. 
HESE birds are obferved to be more numerous in Norfolk 
Ifland, than in New South Wales; and feem to vary much. 
In one from Port Fackfon, in the drawings of General Davies, the 
head, neck, back, and wings, are flaty black: quills and tail black : 
chin and throat the fame, but paler; on the forehead a white {pet: 
breaft purplifh or deep red Jake colour: belly and vent white. 
In another, the forehead is not white; inftead of which is a white 
ftreak over the eye: the chin is white: the general colour is black, 
as in the others: breaft and belly crimfon: vent white: tail rather 
fhorter thanin common. ‘The native name Booddang. 
In a third variety, there is an oblique ftreak of white on the wine; 
and moft of the outer tail feathers white. I have alfo feen this fame 
vary with the tail feathers wholly black. 
In a fourth, the plumage is black above; beneath wholly deep 
crimfon: forehead, juft over the bill, white: on the wing coverts 
fome motlings of white. 
A further variety has the general colour of the upper parts dufky 
or cinereous black: the chin, fore part of the neck, and breaft, crim- 
fon: fpot over the forehead, an oblique broad longitudinal ftreak 
on the fhoulders of the wings, and all the belly and vent white. This , 
came from Port Fask/on, and was communicated by General Davies, 
