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coverts tipped with a triangular white spot; tail grey half way from 

 the base, from thence white, but the two middle feathers are wholly 

 grey; neck before, breast, and belly white; legs black. 



Inhabits the Coast of Coromandel, and called the Indian Night- 

 ingale, for its song is said to be very agreeable. 



19.— SPOTTED YELLOW FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa afra, Lid. Orn. ii. 472. Gin. Lin. i. 940. 



Spotted yellow Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 332. Shaiv's Zool. x. 355. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill broadish at the base, and slightly 

 curved at the tip ; gape bristly ; crown of the head rufous, streaked 

 with black ; wings and tail rufous, the first edged with dusky brown ; 

 quills dusky brown ; body dirty pale yellow, with irregular dusky 

 spots on the upper parts of the head and neck ; on the sides of the 

 latter two or three dusky blotches, and from the corners of the mouth 

 a streak of the same ; under parts marked with irregular transverse 

 spots, and the thighs lengthwise; legs dusky ash-colour. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 



20 —ASH-COLOURED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa cana, Lid. Orn. u. 472. Gm.Lin.i. 940. 



- Madagascariensis cinerea major, Bris. ii. 389. t. 37. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 366. 

 Le Kinki-manou, Buf. iv. 584. 



Grand Gobe-mouche cendre de Madagascar, PL enl. 541. 

 Echenilleur, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal. p. lxii. 

 Ash-coloured Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 332. Shaw's Zool.x. 39S. 



SIZE of the Cinereous Shrike ; length eight inches and a half; 

 Bill black, with black hairs at the base; head, nape, and throat 

 blackish ash-colour ; the rest of the neck, and upper parts tine ash- 

 colour ; from the breast to the vent the same, but paler ; vent white ; 



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