FLYCATCHER. 195 



Among the Indian drawings of Gen. Hardwicke is one, said to 

 be a female, seven inches long ; in this the head, including the eyes 

 only, bluish black, but neither the throat nor neck ; a crest at the 

 nape as in the others, which is bluish at the end ; the rest of the 

 neck, chin, throat, and under parts fine pale ash-colour, nearly 

 white on the belly, thighs, and vent ; back, wings, and tail, pale 

 chestnut; tail rounded at the end, and three inches only in length. 



The above said to be the real female, which, besides other things, 

 probably may never have more than the upper part of the head and 

 eye black; but the male has the whole head, neck, and throat, 

 black, when arrived at his stage of perfection. 



62— MUTABLE FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa mutata, Ind. Orn. ii. 481. Lin. i. 325, Gm. Lin. i. 930. 



Muscicapa Madagascariensis varia longicauda, T3ris.ii. 430. t. 40. 3. Id. 8vo. i. 276. 



Gobe-mouche a longue Queue et ventre blanc, Buf. iv. 568. PI. enl. 248. 2. 



Schet noir, Levail. Afr. iii. 220. pi. 148. f. 1, 2. 



Moucherolle, Tern. Man. Ed. ii. Anal, p. lxvii. 



Mutable Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 347, Shaw's Zool. x, 418. 



THIS is about eleven inches and a half in length, of which the 

 tail is seven inches and a half, The bill flattened at the base, three 

 quarters of an inch long, and black, base beset with bristles; irides 

 yellow; eyelids bare, and blue; the head is crested, greenish black, 

 and glossy; plumage on the upper parts of the body blue black, 

 under parts from the breast white, inclining to grey on the belly 

 and under tail coverts, but the latter nearly black ; greater quills 

 black, the secondaries the same, margined with white ; the wing- 

 coverts are also margined with white ; tail cuneiform, black, the two 

 middle feathers double the length of the others, nearly white, with 

 the shafts black. 



The female smaller, the bare eyelids less conspicuous, and without 

 the elongated tail feathers. 



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