204 FLYCATCHER. 



Said to inhabit the Isle of Bourbon. — Brisson adds, that the 

 female has the head ash-colour. Levaillant is of opinion, that this 

 is a young bird, or a female of the last species. 



75. -MANTLED FLYCATCHER. 



Le Gobe-mouches mantele, Levari. Afr. iv. p. 5. pi. 151. 



SIZE and proportion of the Crested one, but without the long 

 tail feathers. The bill is moderate in size, and beset at the base with 

 bristles; head feathers elongated, black, with a blue gloss; upper 

 parts of the body, rump, and upper tail coverts, bluish grey ; on the 

 wing coverts an oblique band of white ; under parts from the breast 

 white; quills black, edged with bluish grey; tail the same, a trifle 

 cuneiform ; bill and legs bluish black ; irides cinnamon-colour. 



The female is smaller, and the crest less conspicuous ; wings and 

 tail light brown, otherwise like the male ; bill, irides, and legs, paler. 



Inhabits the Mimosa woods of the Caffre Country, and the forest 

 of the Hottniquas ; is not a wild species ; as a pair came into a tent, 

 in the manner of the Redbreast, and by management were caught. 

 The male has a little sharp cry like Schrret, Schrret. Nest and eggs 

 unknown. 



76.— SPECTACLE FLYCATCHER. 



Gobe-mouches a lunettes, Levail. Afr. iv. p. 9. pi. 152. 1. 2. 



LENGTH six inches and a quarter. Bill and legs brown; irides 

 hazel ; plumage above and thighs dusky pale brown, beneath white; 

 round the eye, on the upper part, a kind of white eyebrow ; across 

 the middle of the neck before a brownish black crescent ; tail long, 

 cuneiform, the three outer feathers tipped with white. 



