SOCIETY FLYCATCHER. 



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coverts, and tail, pale chesnut ; middle coverts 

 black, tipped with rufous ; greater ones the same, 

 with white tips : quills black, edged with chesnut : 

 throat, under parts of the body, and rump, cine- 

 reous : legs brown. Inhabits the Isle of Bourbon. 



SOCIETY FLYCATCHER. 



(Muscicapa nigra.) 



Mu. tota nigra, rostro, capite, interscapuliopedibusque atris. 

 Flycatcher entirely black, with the beak, head, spot between 



the shoulders, and feet, darkest. 

 Muscicapa nigra. GmeL Sijst. Nat, 1. 947. — Lath, Ind, Orn. 1. 



474. 24. 



Society Flycatcher. Lath, Syn. Sup. 174. 84. 



Inhabits the Society Islands, in the Pacific 

 Ocean : it is in length six inches : beak stout and 

 black : the whole plumage is black, but darkest 

 on the head and between the shoulders : the legs 

 are also black. 



