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Inhabits New-Holland. — In some the crown, neck behind, and 

 back, are bluish brown; wings brown ; edges of the quills whitish, 

 the traces above and behind the eye white, and the ends of the two 

 middle tail feathers white ; the crown, too, seems fuller of feathers : 

 probably these two differ in sex. One of the last, at Gen. Davies's, 

 was six inches and a half long. Bill with hairs at the base ; 

 plumage above slate-colour, beneath pale yellow, clouded on the 

 lower part of the throat with pale ash ; tail two inches and a half 

 long, a little cuneiform, the edges of all but the two middle feathers 

 white. This was from Van Diemen's Land. 



A similar one, in the Collection of Lord Stanley, measured six 

 inches. The bill black, notched near the tip, and hooked ; head, 

 neck, and half the back, pale ash, with a yellowish tinge ; lower 

 part of the back, and rump bright olive yellow; all beneath, from 

 the chin, bright yellow; under wing coverts dusky white; the quills 

 ash, fringed outwardly with white; tail two inches and a half long, 

 like the quills, but all the feathers white just at the tips, except the 

 two middle, which are plain, the outmost with most white ; legs 

 long, feathers about the joint ash-colour, hind claw large. 



One, seemingly a further Variety, had the bill and legs dusky 

 red ; irides dusky blue ; lesser wing coverts marked with black spots- 

 some faint bars beneath the tail. — Mr. Francillon. 



103.-GREY FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa flavigastra, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. lii. 



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



Grey Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 223. Shaiv's Zool. x. 843. 



SIZE of a Sparrow. Bill broad, with a few bristles at the base, 

 and black ; plumage on the upper parts of the body, and wings, 

 slaty grey ; the under, from chin to vent, pale yellow; the quills and 

 tail dusky black ; legs pale brownish flesh-colour. 



Inhabits New-Holland. 



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