Bycline Ca cAve 1) 1) Hyak) .Re 
two middle long feathers are white, bordered with black for 
half the length; the fhaft is alfo black; the four next on each 
fide chefnut ; and the owter feather black, except on the inner 
web, which is white for nearly the whole length. 
Inhabits Madaga/car, where it is called Schet-vouloulou. 
I have, according to the fentiments of Linneus, divided the 
feven laft-defcribed birds into two fpecies, although I am not. 
quite clear as to the propriety of it, as I fear they will, on our 
better acquaintance with them, prove mere varieties, or fexual 
differences; however, the three laft-mentioned differ from the 
others, as far as defcription goes, in having the two long tail 
feathers much longer in proportion ; and in all of them the mid- 
dle of the wing is white, and the eyelids blue; whereas no fuch 
characteriftics are found In the four firft-defcribed. 
Mufcitapa ftriata, Striped Fly-catcher, Phél. Tranf. vol. Ixiv. p. 406.— 
Miller’s Plates, N° 15. A. B. 
IZE of the Black-cap Titmoufe: length five inches. Bill 
black ; bafe of the under mandible yellowifh: crown black ; 
hind head black and white : cheeks white: throat yellowifh white, 
fpotted with brown: breaft whitifh: fides fpotted with black : 
belly white: back greentfh afh-colour, ftriped with black : rump 
inclining to afh-colour, and fpoited with black: on the wing 
coverts two bars; the upper one yellowifh white, the lower 
white : tail brown; the outer feather has a fpot of white on the 
inner web; the fecond the fame, but fmaller; the third only 
margined with white within: legs yellow : claws pale brown. 
The female has the head of a ereenifh yellow, ftreaked with 
flender lines of black : over the eyes a yellow line: eyelids yel- 
low : 
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PLACE. 
46. 
STRIPED FL. 
DESCRIPTION. 
FemMats, 
