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at the base ; plumage above pale olive-brown, with a narrow, 

 obsolete, darker streak down the shaft of each feather ; rump more 

 inclined to green ; beneath dusky yellowish white, with numerous 

 dusky streaks; quills dark, with pale margins; tail as the quills, the 

 feathers rather pointed at the ends ; the quills reach more than half 

 way on the tail. 



Inhabits New South Wales. — In the collection of Lord Stanley. 



107— RED-BACKED FLYCATCHER. 



Scarlet-back, Lewin , s Birds, pi. 14. 



LENGTH four inches and a half. Bill black, half an inch long, 

 with a few hairs at the base, curving forwards ; tongue lacerated on 

 the margin ; head, neck, breast, belly, and vent, black ; rump and 

 tail the same ; the latter one inch and a quarter long, and rounded 

 at the end ; wings, quills, and thighs, brown; scapulars darker; on 

 the coverts a broad, curved, black mark ; shoulders, and back to the 

 rump crimson ; legs pale brown. 



Female brown above, pale yellow beneath ; over the eye a red- 

 dish trace; tail long and slender, like the Long-tailed Titmouse ; 

 and often carried erect ; over the eye a dull red trace, and some 

 mottlings on the neck and breast; back and wings as in the male. 



Inhabits New South Wales. — Gen. Davies. Generally found in 

 forests, near the banks of rivers, especially Paterson River, in low 

 bushes; in winter migrates southward. The male has a pretty song, 

 much like that of the Superb Warbler; now and then seen in small 

 flocks; and frequently flirts up the tail. There is some similarity 

 between this and the Orange-rumped Flycatcher, but the tail is deep 

 black, and full webbed, though cuneiform ; in this circumstance 

 materially differing, otherwise might be mistaken for the opposite 

 sex. The native name in Mr. Francillon's drawings is Temmench. 



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