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with chestnut edges; tail purplish chestnut, greatly cuneiform in 

 shape ; and in some specimens the two middle feathers exceed the 

 others by several inches ; legs grey. 



The female is smaller, as is also the crest, and the colours in 

 general are less bright ; the fore part of the neck and all beneath 

 iron-grey. In the female the middle feathers are longer than the 

 side ones, but never projecting far from the rest, as in the male ; and 

 this sex only retains them during the breeding season. In both sexes 

 the eyelids are fleshy, moveable, and of a tine blue, but in the female 

 smaller, and less conspicuous. Young birds are like the females. 



This species is common on the East Coast of the Cape of Good 

 Hope, from Duywehoch to the country of CafFres ; also on the 

 borders of Sondag, and Swartekop, but not near the Cape itself. 

 The nest is of a singular construction, in shape of a long cone bent 

 at the point, and hanging downwards, fastened by the mouth, 

 between two branches of a Mimosa, length about eight inches, and 

 two in diameter at top, the depth only three inches, so that all below 

 this seems unnecessary ; it is composed of fine strips of bark, and 

 lined with down, wool, or hair. Eggs and young unknown. 



74— BOURBON FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa Borbonica, Ind. Orn. ii. 470. Gm. Lin. i. 939. Bris. ii. 420. t. 39. 5. 



Id. 8vo. i. 274. 

 Gobe-mouche huppe de V Isle de Bourbon, PI. enl. 573, 1. 

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

 Bourbon Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 330. Id. Sup. 171. Shaw's Zool. x. 326. 



LESS than the last; length five inches and one-third. Bill grey; 

 head greenish black, glossed with violet ; throat and all beneath 

 ash-colour ; back, lesser wing coverts, and tail, pale chestnut ; the 

 second and third coverts black, the first tipped with rufous, the last 

 with white; quills black, edged with chestnut; tail even at the end, 

 or very little rounded; rump grey : legs brown. 



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