MUSCICAPID.E. 113 



Muscipeta above red-brown ; beneath white ; with a black stripe 

 through the eye ; the throat and band on the breast black in 

 the male, rufous in the female, 



Le Molenar. Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afriq. iv. 160./. 1. 2.— Clicking 

 Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Hist. \i.p. 164. 



Inhabits Southern Africa. Beak and legs black- 

 brown : irides light orange : prevailing colour of the 

 plumage above rufous-brown, with a tinge of olive : 

 beneath white : eye placed in a black streak, which 

 passes behind : throat black, lengthening to the nape 

 halfway on each side : across the breast a black streak, 

 taking in the bend of the wing ; on the middle of 

 the wing-coverts a rufous patch : sides under the 

 wings rufous : quills and tail black, outwardly fringed 

 with white. The female is smaller, like the male, 

 but the throat and across the breast rufous, instead 

 of black : wings the same : lower belly and thighs 

 rufous : the wings reach one-third, at least, on the 

 tail. 



Le Vaillant observes, that this bird is usually seen 

 in pairs among the bushes, but rarely in the woods, 

 and that it lays six white eggs. Its note is some- 

 thing like that of the Stonechat. 



Sp. 17. Mu. perspicillata. 



Mu. corpore supra jepnoribusque nigricantefrusco ; subtus albo ; 

 superciliis albis ; lunula jugulari Jusco-nigra ; catidd elongata, 

 cuneiforma, rectricibus tribus extimis apicibus albis. 



Muscipeta with the body above and thighs dusky-brown ; beneath 

 white; with th^ 1 eyebrows white ; a brown-black lunule on the 

 jugulum ; the tail elongated, wedge-shaped, the tips of the three 

 outer feathers white. 



Le Gobe-mouche a lunettes. Le Vaill. Ois- d'Afriq. iv. 151 .f. 1. 

 — Spectacle Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Hist. vi. 204. 



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