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A. — Muscicapa nigra, Bris. ii. 381. Id. 8vo. i. 264. Gen. Syn. iii. 325. A. 



This is said to be five inches and a half long, and differs in 

 having a mixture of grey on the upper parts ; thighs mixed brown 

 and white, and three of the outer tail feathers white on the margins. 



6 —WHITE-FRONTED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa albifrons, Ind. Orri.i. 469. Gm. Lin. i. 948. Mus. Carls, i. t. 24. 

 White-fronted Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. Sup. 175. Shaw's Zool. x. 401. 



LENGTH five inches and three quarters. Bill black, slender, 

 a trifle curved at the point, and a few hairs at the base ; forehead 

 dusky white ; hindhead, nape, shoulders, wing coverts, and second 

 quills, sooty black ; prime quills brown, edged with ferruginous ; 

 fore part of the neck and breast dusky white, the shafts of the 

 feathers brown ; belly pale ferruginous ; tail two inches long, black ; 

 legs black. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope : it seems greatly similar to the 

 Coldfinch, but wants the white on the wings, and the tail feathers 

 are all of one colour. 



7.— CAPE FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa torquata, Ind. Orn. ii. 468. Lin. i. 328. — male. Gm. Lin. i. 945. Bris. iii. 



379. t. 36. 4. Id. 8vo. i. 263. 

 Gobe-mouche a collier du Cap. de B. Esp. PI. enl. 572. 2. 

 Cape Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 326. Shaw's Zool. ix. 330. 



SIZE of the last. Head, throat, back, wings, and tail, black ; 

 sides of the neck white, passing behind in a narrow collar ; breast 

 rufous ; belly, thighs, vent, and a large spot in the middle of the 

 wing white; bill dusky; legs brown. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 



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