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CAPE FLYCATCHER. 



(Muscicapa torquata,) 



Mu. nigra, subtus alba, pectore riifo, remigibus intimis apice albis. 

 Black Flycatcher, beneath white, with the breast rufous; the 



mner webs of the tail-feathers white. 

 Muscicapa torquata, Lin. Syst, Nat. 1. 328. 17. male. — Gmel. 



Syst. Nat. 1. 945. — Briss. 3. 379. ,12. pi. 36./. A,— Lath. Lid. 



Orn. 2. 468. 3. 



Muscicapa capensis. Lin, Syst. Nat. 1. 327. 16. female. — 

 Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 945. female. — Briss, Orn. 2. 372. ^.pl. 36. 

 y. 3. female. 



Gobe-mouche a collier du Cap de Bonne Esperance. Buff. PI. 



Enl. 572./, 1. male. 

 Gobe-mouche du Cap de Bonne Esperance. Buff, PI. Enl, 572. 



jT. I. female. 

 Cape Flycatcher. Loth. Gen. Syn, '4 - 326. 3. - 



The Cape Flycatcher is the size of the Pied 

 one : its beak is dusky : its head, throat, back, 

 wings, and tail, are black: the sides of its neck 

 white, ending in a narrow collar behind: the 

 breast rufous : the belly, thighs, vent, and spot in 

 the middle of the wing, white : legs brown : the 

 female is brown on the upper parts of her body : 

 the breast is black : the tail is tipped with white ; 

 and the outer feather is nearly all white : the 

 wing-coverts have a rufous bar across them : in 

 other respects she is similar. Inhabits the Cape 

 of Good Hope. 



