196 FLYCATCHER. 



The male varies, in having the long tail feathers sometimes black, 

 at other times black on one side, and white on the opposite ; these 

 are more narrow in the middle, growing broader towards the ends. 

 It is said, that the bird does not gain the elongated tail feathers till 

 three years old. — Inhabits the Country of the CarTres, within the 

 Cape of Good Hope. 



In one, among the drawings of Gen. Hardwicke, the two middle 

 tail feathers exceeded the others by seven inches, being in all fifteen 

 inches and a half long ; the space round the eyes bare, and blue. 

 This was found at Cawnpore in India, in July, serving to shew, 

 that the bird is not confined to the Cape of Good Hope, exclusively. 



63.— SCHET-ALL FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa Madagascariensis longicauda, Bris. ii. 424. t. 40. 1. Id. Svo. i. 275. 

 Gobe-mouche a longue Queue de Madagascar, PL enl. 248. 1. 

 Schetroux, Levail. Afr.m. 216. pi. 147. 1.2. 

 Schet-all, Buf. iv. 568. Gen. Syn. iii. 348. 45. A. 



SIZE of a Goldfinch. Head, as low as the eyes on each side, 

 dull green, with the gloss of polished steel, very full of feathers, and 

 elongated at the back part, so as to form a sort of crest when erected ; 

 bill three quarters of an inch long, black, with a few hairs at the 

 base ; irides yellow ; eyelids blue ; general colour of the rest of the 

 plumage rufous, but less glossy than in the first species, and in parts 

 inclines to brown ; the wings black, with the margins, and ends of 

 several of the coverts white, forming a long patch of white down the 

 middle of the wing ; the ten side feathers of the tail are cuneiform in 

 shape, but the two middle ones as long again as the others ; where 

 they begin to elongate are more narrow than towards the ends, 

 becoming there wider. 



The female is smaller, and the colours less bright. M. Levaillant 

 found this in the Country of the CarTres, but could not obtain any 

 account of the nest or eggs. 



