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irregularly marked in the middle with orange red, and a patch or 

 two of the same on the second quills; tail cuneiform, the two middle 

 feathers blue black to the ends, the others more or less halfway from 

 the base the same, the end half orange red ; legs dusky. 



The female is pale brown, or ash-colour above ; over the eye 

 yellow ; all the under parts from the chin yellow ; wings and tail 

 marked in the same manner as the male, but the colours different ; 

 for the plumage is pale ash and yellow, where the male is black 

 and orange. 



Inhabits India. — Gen. Hardwicke. On examining one in the 

 collection of Gen. Davies, I find the six middle tail feathers all of 

 one length, or three inches and a half; the next two inches and 

 three quarters ; the adjoining two inches and a quarter ; the exterior 

 only one inch and a half; the two middle black ; the others black 

 at the base, and the rest of the length obliquely orange ; rump 

 orange ; thighs and legs black ; the wings, when closed, reach to 

 the middle of the tail. The bill is not depressed as in the Flam- 

 meous Species, but somewhat approaching to that of the Shrike. 

 This was said to have come from Ceylon. 



One, in General Hardwicke's collection, had the colours black 

 and deep scarlet : the female brown and yellow, as above mentioned. 

 The name given to it was Sat-Sukhey-ka-peea. 



27— FLAMMEOUS FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa flammea, Ind. Orn. ii. 474. Gm. Lin. i. 935. Zool. Ind. p. 25 t. 15. Lin. 



Trans, xiii. p. 146. 

 L'Oranor, Levail. Afr. iv. 17. pi. 155. 2. 

 Flammeous Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 338. Id. Sup. 171. Ind. Zool. 4to. 43. pi. 9. 



Male and Female. Shaw's Zool. x. 372. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill black, with a slight notch near the 

 tip ; head, neck, and upper parts, black ; back, across the wings, 



