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BOURBON FLYCATCHER. 



crown of the head crested, and with the throat 

 and fore-part of the neck glossy black, changing 

 to green : the whole upper parts of the body ches- 

 nut-coloured : the greater wing-coverts and quills 

 brown, edged with chesnut : breast and under 

 parts of the body cinereous : tail much wedged 

 and longj of a purple chesnut colour : legs grey. 



BOURBON FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa borbonica.) 



Mu. crista ta hadia, suhtus cinerea, capite nigro-virescente, rectri- 

 cibus pallide badiis. 



Crested chocolate-coloured Flycatcher, beneath cinereous, with 

 the head greenish black, and the tail-feathers pale choco- 

 late* 



Muscicapa borbonica. Gmel. Syst, Nat. 1. Q3g,-^Lath, Ind. Oni. 

 2. 470. 10. 



Muscicapa borbonica cristata, Briss, Orn, 2. 420. 33. pi. 37- 



Gobe-mouche huppe de Tisle de Bourbon. Buffi PI, Enl, 573. 

 y: 1. male. 



Bourbon Flycatcher. Lath, Gen, Syn, 3. 330. 7. — Lath. Syn, 

 Sup, 171. 



This greatly resembles the preceding, but is 

 not above two thirds the size, being only five 

 inches and a quarter in length : its beak is grey : 

 head of the male greenish black, with a tinge of 

 violet; of the female grey: back, lesser wing- 



