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colour of the plumage white, but the wing coverts have black shafts; 

 greater coverts black, margined all round with white; quills the 

 same, edged with white; tail cuneiform, the feathers white, with 

 black shafts; besides which, the two middle ones extend, more or 

 less, beyond the others ; legs lead-colour. 



A. — Muscicapa cristata Cap, Bona? Spei, Bris. ii. 418, t.4J. 1, Id. 8vo. i. 273. Gen. 

 Syn. iii. 346. 44. A. 



The head, neck, and throat are as in the last, likewise the crest, 

 fine greenish black ; the rest of the upper parts pale chestnut ; neck 

 before, and breast grey ; belly and vent white ; quills pale chestnut, 

 the outer one shortest by an inch and a half; tail cuneiform, chestnut, 

 shafts paler ; legs as the last. 



B. — Gobe-mouche hupe du Cap de Bonne Esperance, PL enl. 234. 1. 

 Crested long-tailed Pye, Edw. pi. 325. Gen. Syn. iii. 347. B. 



This differs in having all the under parts white, except the breast, 

 which is bluish ash-colour. Such an one is among the collection of 

 drawings of General Hardwicke. 



Found at Cawnpore, in India. I observed the elongated head 

 feathers of one, in the late General Davies's Collection, to be rather 

 broader towards the end, and not pointed, as in many crested species. 



The two first mentioned inhabit the Cape of Good Hope. 



C— Muscicapa Brasihensis cristata, Bris. ii. 416. Id. 8vo. i. 273. Gen. Syn. iii. 



347. C. 

 Cuiriri akamaku, Seba, ii. t. 87. 2. Klein, 70. 31. 



This is described by Seba with a crested head, the colour of a 

 Crow ; upper parts of the body pale chestnut ; wing coverts gold- 

 colour; breast and belly white; the bill red; eyes fire-colour. 



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