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tips and margins yellow ; under parts from the chin to vent yellow ; 

 quills black, edged with yellow ; tail short, rounded, black, all the 

 feathers tipped with white, but the outmost has the end, for nearly 

 a quarter of its length, of that colour; legs dusky. 

 Native place of this and the last uncertain. 



95.— RUFOUS-FRONTED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa rufifrons, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. 1. 



Orange-rumped Flycatcher, Lemhi's N. Holl. Birds, pi. 13. 



Rufous-fronted Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 220. Shaw's Zool. x. 373, 



SIZE of a Nightingale, but more slender. Bill black, slender, 

 with a few fine hairs at the base ; crown of the head, neck behind, 

 < wing coverts, half the tail, and under parts of the body, from the 

 breast, pale brown ; forehead, middle of the back, and base of the 

 tail deep rufous, inclining to red ; the chin, neck before, and breast 

 yellowish white, spotted on the ears and breast with black ; on the 

 middle of the neck before a large patch of black ; tail rather long, 

 and in a small degree cuneiform ; bill and legs pale brown. 



Inhabits New South Wales, known there by the name of Burril ; 

 has only been met with in November ; found in low bushes, is always 

 in motion ; has a chattering kind of note, and is in the habit of 

 frequently jerking up the tail. 



That figured by Mr. Lewin diners in some particulars ; the upper 

 parts are darker brown than in the former, and the quills, and tertial 

 coverts pale red on the edges; the rufous red colour occupies the 

 lower part of the back, rump, and upper tail coverts, and continues 

 half way to the middle of the tail feathers, the outer ones of which 

 are at least rufous on the outer webs ; instead of black spots on the 

 ears, there is a continued patch ; the same on the throat ; beneath 

 white, as far as the breast, the feathers black in the middle, with 



