172 FLYCATCHER. 



edged and tipped with rufous ; the last only edged with the same ; 

 legs brown. 



The female is dirty white, in those parts which are rufous in the 

 male. — Found at the Isle of Bourbon ; where it is called Tectec. 



25.— RUFOUS-VENTED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa rufiventris, Ind. Om. ii. 473. Gm. Lin. i. 941. 



Gobe-mouche de 1' Isle de Bourbon, PL enl. 572, 3. 



Rufous- vented Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 334. Shaw's Zool. x. 367. 



LENGTH four inches and three quarters. Colour wholly black, 

 except the vent and under tail coverts, which are rufous ; legs pale 

 red. — Said to inhabit the Isle of Bourbon. 



A. — Head, neck, back, upper belly, and thighs, black ; upper 

 and under wing coverts, sides under the wings, and base half of the 

 side tail feathers, rufous orange ; quills dusky ; the two middle tail 

 feathers black, the others black from the middle to the end ; rump 

 and vent nearly white, the feathers of the latter margined with 

 dusky ; bill and legs dusky. 



Inhabits India, chiefly those parts within the Bay of Bengal, 

 and is, not unlikely, the female of the Rufous-vented. — Sir J. An- 

 struther. 



26— AUGUST FLYCATCHER. 



LENGTH eight inches. Bill half an inch, pale grey ; head, 

 chin, throat, and all behind to the beginning of the back black, with 

 a blue gloss, the rest of the body fine orange red ; wings blue black, 



