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Inhabits rocks, inaccessible caverns, and deep rugged places, 

 creeping about ; is a shy and cautious bird ; the note sharp and 

 shrill : always found in the same places throughout the year; but is 

 not numerous, or commonly met with. 



111.— RUSTY-CROWNED FLYCATCHER. 



LENGTH between eight and nine inches. Bill black, with a 

 few hairs at the base; top of the head ferruginous, with dusky 

 streaks ; the rest of the neck, and all beneath, very pale yellow, or 

 brimstone-colour ; neck behind marked with numerous, dusky, nar- 

 row streaks; the lower part and sides with large blotches of the same, 

 and two or three in the direction of the jaw ; on the breast a few 

 irregular transverse lines, and some streaks on the thighs ; wing 

 coverts ferruginous ; quills dusky ; tail three inches and a half long, 

 cuneiform ; legs black. — From the drawings of Mr. Dent. 



112.— BARRED-TAILED FLYCATCHER. 



LENGTH five inches. Bill half an inch long, made as in the 

 Common Wren, but stouter, with a few hairs at the base, colour 

 brown ; all the upper parts of the body, and wings olive brown, with 

 a rufous tinge on the lower part of the back ; over the eye a trace of 

 white, beginning at the nostrils, and reaching behind ; upper tail 

 coverts buif-colour ; the chin, throat, and breast, buff-colour, with nu- 

 merous dusky streaks ; the rest of the under parts paler, almost white ; 

 sides olive brown ; under tail coverts pale ferruginous; tail cuneiform, 

 the two middle feathers two inches and a quarter, the outer one inch 

 and three quarters, colour reddish brown, with a bar of black near 

 the end ; beyond this whitish, or very pale ash-colour ; the legs pale 

 yellow, claws black. 



