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83— YELLOW-FRONTED FLYCATCHER. 



Mxiscicapa flavifrons, Ind. Orn. ii. 479. Gm. Lin. i. 944. 

 Yellow-fronted Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 342. Shaw's Zool. x. 351. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill pale lead-colour, with a 

 very few hairs at the base ; upper parts of the body yellow-olive ; fore- 

 head and under parts yellow ; eye yellow, round the back part of it a 

 half-crescent of white ; wings brown, the feathers edged with yellow ; 

 quills blackish, edged with the same; tail olive-brown, the end 

 palest; legs pale blue. 



Inhabits the Isle of Tanna. 



84. YELLOW-HEADED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa ochro'cephala, Ind. Orn. ii. 479. Gm. Lin. i. 944. 

 Yellow-headed Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 342. Shaw's Zool. x. 410. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill rather stout, bent just 

 at the tip; nostrils covered by a membrane; base of the bill bristly; 

 irides hazel ; head, neck, and breast, golden yellow ; upper parts of 

 the body dusky, pale, yellowish green, inclining on the rump to ash- 

 colour; belly, thighs, and vent, white; legs black, claws long. 



Inhabits Queen Charlotte's Sound, in New Zealand. 



85— PIED FLYCATCHER. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill black, stout, a trifle hooked at the 

 end ; head and throat black ; neck behind, middle of the back, wing 

 coverts, and much of the rest of the wing, and tail, black; breast 

 and under parts white, passing nearly to the back of the neck, as a 

 collar; scapulars mixed with white; several of the second quills 



