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15.— SENEGAL FLYCATCHER. 



MALE. 



Muscicapa Senegalensis, Ind. Om. ii. 470. Lin. i. 327. Gm. Lin. i. 938. Bris. ii. 



374. t. 37. 2. Id. Svo. i. 262. 

 Gobe-mouche a bandeau blanc du Senegal, Buf.'iv. 528. PI. enh 567. 1. 

 Senegal Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 328. Shaw's Zool. x. 333. 



LENGTH four inches and three quarters. The bill flat, broad, 

 black, with a few hairs, of about half the length, at the base ; crown 

 of the head and sides dusky black ; from the nostril a ferruginous 

 streak, passing over the eye to the hiudhead, which is of the same 

 colour ; chin and throat white ; across the breast a bar of ferruginous ; 

 from thence to the vent white ; back and wings dusky brown, across 

 the latter an oblique pale ferruginous bar ; quills dusky, fringed with 

 ferruginous ; lower part of the back, and rump mixed with white ; 

 upper tail coverts black ; tail near two inches long, even, black, the 

 outer feather wholly white on the outer web, and for three-fourths 

 from the base on the inner; the next white on the outer, and black 

 on the inner, the whole of the length ; legs black. 



FEMALE. 



Muscicapa Senegalensis, Lin. i. 327. 15. j3. 



pectore nigro, Bris. ii. 376. t. 37. 3. Id. 8vo. i. 263. 



Gobe-mouche a poitrine noire, Pl.enl. 567. 2. Gen. Syn. iii. 329. 5. A. 



The one here quoted is supposed to be the female, and diners 

 from the other in some particulars. The head is black, with a white 

 streak over the eyes to the hindhead, instead of a ferruginous one ; 

 back and the wings much the same, but instead of a ferruginous bar 

 across the breast, there is a similar one of black, and the bar across 

 the wings is white ; tail the same in both. 



Inhabits Senegal. — In the Collection of Lord Stanley. 



