124 WARBLER. 



or Cassowary, Titmouse; is of short flight, scarcely 100 yards at a 

 time, and is so feeble and delicate as to be run down with the greatest 

 ease. It is also called Murreanera in another drawing ; however, 

 the tail feathers are not strictly like those of the Cassowary, as each 

 shaft has only a single feather, whereas in the Cassowary two 

 feathers spring from one shaft : the tail seems to differ much in length, 

 as in some it measures full five inches. 



137— ORANGE-RUMPED WARBLER. 



Muscicapa melanocepbala, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. lii. Shaw's Zool. x. 406. 

 Orange-rumped Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 225. Lewin, N. Holl. Birds f 



HEAD and neck black, and full of feathers ; back and rump 

 orange-colour, or reddish ; all beneath the body white, with several 

 longish streaks of black on the breast; wings and tail brown, the 

 feathers of the latter much separated, and distinct from each other, as 

 in the Soft-tailed Species ; legs pale brown. That of Mr. Lewin, if 

 the same, has the head brown ; lore orange ; under the eye black. 



Inhabits New South Wales ; is an active bird ; frequently carries 

 the tail erect, and expands it at the same moment it springs on its 

 prey, which is insects; observed to leap from branch to branch for 

 that purpose, many times together, returning to the same spot. 



138— MOUNTAINEER WARBLER. 



Brachypteryx inontana, Lin. Trans, xiii. 157. 



LENGTH six inches. Bill rather stout ; nostrils large, placed 

 in a hollow, closed above, and at the back part, with a membrane; 

 plumage in general bluish grey, paler beneath ; belly whitish ; 

 wings very short; quills brown, margined outwardly with blue grey; 



