FLYCATCHER. 20.0 



88— RED-BELLIED FLYCATCHER.— Pl. c. 



Muscicapa erythrogastra, Ind. Orn. ii. 479. Gm. Lin. i. 944. 

 Crimson-breasted Warbler, Lewin's New-Holland Birds, pl. 5 ? 



Red-bellied Flycatcher, Gen. St/n. iii. 343. pl. 50. Id. Sup. ii. 216. Nat. Misc. pl. 

 147. Shaw's Zool. x. 400. pl. 32. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill black, a little curved at 

 the end, the under mandible yellowish at the base ; head, neck, 

 back, sides, thighs, wings, and tail, black ; forehead, and lower 

 wing coverts, white ; breast and belly deep carmine ; vent reddish ; 

 two, or more, of the outer tail feathers white for two-thirds of the 

 length ; legs long and slender, yellowish brown. 



The female is brown where the male is black ; chin, and between 

 the eye and bill, cinereous brown; breast and belly pale orange; 

 vent, sides, and thighs, yellowish white. 



Inhabits Norfolk Island, chiefly in the most unfrequented parts 

 of it ; met with also in New South Wales, but less common ; comes 

 into habitations in winter, in the manner of our Redbreast in 

 England, and has a note not unlike it ; is a solitary bird, or at least 

 not seen in flocks; is subject to some Varieties. 



A. — In one from Port Jackson, the head, neck, back, and wings, 

 slaty black ; quills and tail black ; chin and throat the same, but 

 paler; on the forehead a white spot; breast purplish, or deep red 

 lake-colour; belly and vent white. 



B. — In this the forehead is not white ; instead of which is a white 

 streak over the eye ; chin white ; and the general colour, as in the 

 others, black; breast and belly crimson; vent white; tail rather 

 shorter than in the first described. 



The native name of this is Boaddang. 



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