250 FLYCATCHER. 



152— RUFOUS-BELLIED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa cinerea, Ind. Orn. ii. 48S. Gm. Lin. i. 933. 



> Cayanensis rufa, Bris. Sup. 51. t. 3. f. 3. Id. 8vo. i. 277. 



Rufous-bellied Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 363. Shaiv's Zool. x. 388. 



LENGTH eight inches and a quarter. Bill one inch and a 

 quarter long, dusky, bristly at the base; the under mandible grey ; 

 head, neck behind, and sides, deep ash-colour; the feathers of the 

 crown with dark shafts ; back rufous-brown ; throat and neck before 

 ash-colour, margins of the feathers white; rump,upper tail coverts, 

 and breast bright rufous, from thence to the vent the same, but paler; 

 wings as the back, the feathers edged with rufous, or rufous brown ; 

 tail bright rufous ; legs brown. 



Inhabits Cayenne. — A specimen, in the collection of General 

 Davies, had the belly yellowish white. 



A. — One, which is probably a Variety, is smaller. Bill, as in 

 the other; plumage above rufous olive ; beneath pale rufous; rump 

 bright rufous ; tail even, or very little rounded at the end ; length of 

 it two inches and a half. The wings reach very little beyond the base. 



This also came from Cayenne. 



153.— RUFOUS FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa rufescens, Ind. Orn. ii. 487. Gm. Lin. i. 932. 

 Gobe-mouche roux de Cayenne, Biif. iv. 543. PL enl. 453. 1. 

 Rufous Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. iii. 362. Shaw's Zool. x. 389. 



LENGTH five inches and a half. Bill short, stout, dusky ; 



upper parts of the body glowing pale rufous, the under wholly 



rufous white; on the top of the head a brown spot; quills black; 

 legs dusky. — Inhabits Cayenne. 



