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A.— Muscicapa Madagascariensis albic. longicauda, Bris. ii. 427. t. 40. 1. Id. 8vo. i. 



p. 276. 

 Schet-Vouloulou, Buf. iv. 569. Gen. Syn. iii. 348. B. 



This seems a trifling Variety, in which the two middle long tail 

 feathers are white, bordered with black for half the length, shafts 

 black ; the four next on each side chestnut ; the outer one black, 

 except the inner web, which is white for nearly the whole length. 



Inhabits Madagascar; called there Schet Vouloulou. In Mr. 

 Salt's Collection are some Varieties : in one, the head and neck are 

 glossy steel black; the back fine chestnut; beneath, from the breast, 

 dusky black ; wings as in the other, but with more white in them ; 

 the two middle tail feathers eleven inches long, white, with bladk 

 shafts; the others four inches only; the middle one of the short 

 feathers on each side is also white, with a black edge, the rest 

 chestnut; breast and belly slate-colour. In another the two long 

 tail feathers are cinnamon ; and all the others, except that adjoining 

 to the middle ones, which is white, with a black shaft. 



We believe that these were brought from Abyssinnia, and were 

 thought to be male and female, being found together on a fig tree 

 at Ghella. 



64.— NEBULOSE FLYCATCHER. 



Le Nebuleux, Levail. Afr. iii. 223. pi. 149. f. 1. 2. 



SIZE of a Goldfinch, but longer. The bill black, longer, and 

 less flat than in some others; the head scarcely crested; irides hazel 

 brown; plumage in general pure white; wings and tail black, the 

 latter cuneiform ; the two middle tail feathers more narrow, and four 

 times the length of any of the rest ; legs black. 



The female smaller : the plumage earthy brown, paler on the 

 forehead, throat, and belly ; wings and tail black, less deep than in 



