FLYCATCHER. 18-3 



Inhabits India: in some drawings I observe a similar one, eight 

 inches and a half long. Bill and legs black; plumage in general 

 very pale greenish blue, as in the male Bishop Tanager, paler 

 beneath; from the base of the bill, round the eye, dusky; quills 

 dusky within; tail even, the wings reach on it one-third. 



42.— BLUE-HEADED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa cyanocephala, Lid. Orn. ii. 477. Gm. Lin. i. 943. 

 Gobe-mouche a. tete bleuatre de Lucon, Son. Voy. 57. t, 26. 1. 

 Blue-headed Flycatrher, Gen. Syn.'m. 339. Shaw's Zool. x. 403. 



SIZE of a Linnet. Bill brown ; head deep blue, nearly black ; 

 throat, back, wing coverts, and tail, for almost the whole length, 

 deep red ; tips of the feathers of the last black, in shape forked ; 

 breast, belly, and vent pale brown ; legs brown. 



Inhabits the Island of Manilla. 



43 —YELLOW-THROATED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa Manillensis, Lid. Orn. ii. 477. Gm. Lin. i. 943. 

 Gobe-mouche a gorge jaune de Lucon, Son. Voy. 57. t. 26. 

 Yellow-throated Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 340. Shaw's Zool. x. 369. 



LARGER than the last. Bill brown ; top and sides of the head 

 black ; hindhead grey, below this black ; on the cheeks two bands 

 of white, beginning at the gape ; the one rising in a band above the 

 eye, and beyond it the other, passing beneath, and shorter; the 

 throat yellow ; breast reddish ; middle of the belly yellow ; sides of 

 it and vent white ; upper parts of the bird grey ; middle of the back 

 chestnut, extending itself over the wings, which are crossed with a 

 white stripe; quills black, edged with brown ; tail nearly even, or 

 very little rounded ; the two middle feathers black, the others white, 

 towards the base dusky ; legs brown. 



Inhabits the Island of Manilla. 



