334 



RED-VENTED FLYCATCHER. 



part of the neck and throat rufous white: back, 

 rump, and scapulars, varied by blackish, white, 

 and grey: upper tail-coverts black : wing-coverts 

 with a white band : quills brown, with grey edges : 

 cheeks black : fore-part of the neck, belly, vent, 

 and edge of the wing, white : breast pale rufous : 

 thighs brown and white mixed : tail black ; the , 

 four outer feathers tipped with white : legs black : 

 female has a black band on the breast : the upper 

 parts of her plumage blajck, clouded with white, 

 and only the two outer tail-feathers tipped with 

 white. Inhabits Senegal. 



RED-VENTED FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa liaemorrhousa.) 



Mu. Jusco-nebulosttf mhtus alba, capite subcristato caudaque 



nigris, crisso rubro vel Jiavo, 

 Brown-clouded Flycatcher, beneath white; the head slightly 



crested, which, with the tail, is black; vent red or yellow. 

 Muscicapa haemorrhousa. GmeL Si/st. Nat. 1. g4l.'^Lath. Ind, 



Orn. 2. 475. 26. 



Yellow-vented Flycatcher. Lath, Gen. Syn. 3. 335. I9. — Bro'von, 



Illust. Zool. y6.pl. 31. 

 lled-vented Flycatcher, Bro'von, Illust, Zool. 78.pl, 31. — Lath. 



Gen, Syn. 3. 335. Ip. 



The Red and Yellow-vented Flycatchers of 

 Brown appear to be the opposite sexes of the same 

 bird, of which the following is the description : 

 The red-vented is four inches and a half in length : 



