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longer; the feet are dusky-plumbeous; and the tail and its upper 

 coverts are moderately bright rufous or ferruginous, suffused with 

 dusky on the middle pair of tail-feathers, and on part of the outer mar- 

 gin of the next; rump also tinged with ferruginous; the rest of the 

 upper-parts olivaceous, and the under-parts greyish, passing to white 

 on the abdomen and chin ; lower tail-coverts white, tinged faintly 

 with ferruginous. Length about five inches and a half, of wing 

 two and seven-eighths, and tail two and one-eighth ; bill to gape 

 three-quarters of an inch, and tarse five-eighths: the under mandible 

 of the bill of this species has little trace of whitish. Hab. S. India. 



4. B. latirostris, (Raffles, Swainson) : Muscicapa poonensis, Sykes. 

 The beak of this species is shorter and broader than in the others, and 

 much flattened. Length nearly five inches, of wing two and five- 

 eighths, and tail an inch and seven-eighths ; bill to gape eleven-six- 

 teenths, and tarse half an inch. Colour greyish-brown above, some- 

 times a little tinged with rufescent ; lower-parts white ; the breast, 

 flanks, and sides of the throat, light greyish-brown : bill dusky, ex- 

 cept the base of the lower mandible, which is pale-yellowish ; and the 

 feet are dark brown : wing-coverts and tertiaries margined with light 

 rufescent. Hab. S. India and Malay countries. 



The following are two very distinct generic forms of Flycatchers, 

 neither of which can be approximated to any other with which I am 

 acquainted. 



Muscitrea, nobis. Bill of moderate length, somewhat conical, a 

 little compressed, the upper mandible obtusely angulated, with the 

 curvature of its outline increasing to the tip, which overhangs that of 

 the lower mandible, and is slightly emarginated ; the extreme tip of 

 the lower mandible also curves a little upward : gonys straight and 

 scarcely inflected : the nostrils small, with anterior oval aperture, 

 and beset at base with short reflected feathers and some incumbent 

 hairs : a few fine hair-like bristles also at the gape, of moderate length. 

 Tarsi moderately slender, as long as the middle toe with its claw ; 

 the toes and claws suited for perching. Wings long and broad, 

 reaching more than half-way down the tail, having the fourth and 

 fifth primaries equal and longest, the third rather shorter, the second 

 equalling the eighth, and the first about half the length of the third. 

 Tail moderately developed, its feathers of nearly equal length. The 



