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Iii the drawings of Sir J. Anstruther are two Varieties : in one, 

 the head, neck, wings, and tail, are black ; beginning of the back 

 brown ; all beneath white ; over the eye a white streak, across the 

 chin another; tail cuneiform, the feathers wholly black ; bill dusky; 

 legs pale cinereous blue. 



The other five inches and a half long. Plumage above brown 

 black, beneath white; over the eye abroad white streak; the chin 

 ash-colour ; wing coverts spotted with white ; tail two inches and 

 three quarters long, the six middle feathers black ; the exterior 

 wholly white ; the two next white at the ends ; bill and legs as in 

 the others : the name given to it Teeloet. 



35— WREATHED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa Sinensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 475. Gm. Lin. i. 942. 

 Le gobe-mouche verdatre de la Chine, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. 107. 

 Wreathed Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 336. Shaw's Zool. x. 344. 



BIGGER than a House Sparrow. Bill black ; irides red ; head 

 black; over the eye a white streak, from the bill to the hindhead, 

 making a sort of wreath ; neck behind, back, rump, wing coverts, 

 and tail greenish grey ; quills yellowish green ; throat white ; neck 

 before, and breast greyish ; belly and vent pale yellow; legs black. 



Inhabits China. 



36— VITTATED FLYCATCHER. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill dusky, rather bent at the point ; 

 plumage above pale ash-colour, beneath dusky white ; over the eye, 

 from the nostrils, a broad, dusky white streak, reaching almost to 

 the hindhead ; on the wing coverts two series of white spots, arising 

 from the second and third coverts being so tipped; quills and tail 



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