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YELLOW-BREASTED FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa melanictera.) 



Mu. cinerea-Jusca lulea varia, pectore luieo, capite nigro, remigi- 

 ins rectricibiisque obscuris Jiavescente marginatis. 



Grey-brown Flycatcher varied with yellowish ; the breast yel- 

 low ; the head black ; and the quills and tail-feathers edged 

 with dull yellowish. 



Muscicapa melanictera. GmeL Syst. Nat. 1. 941. — Lath, Ind, 

 Orn, 2. 475. 28. 



Yellow-breasted Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 336. 21. 



Called Malkala-kourla in Ceylon, where it is 

 greatly esteemed on account of its melodious song: 

 it is the size of the Goldfinch : its beak is ash- 

 coloured : the whole head is black : the upper 

 parts of the body and wing-coverts grey brown, 

 varied with yellow : quills and tail dusky, fringed 

 with pale yellow : breast yellow. 



YELLOW-CROWNED FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa audax.) 



Mu. nigricans rufo undulatay suhtus Jlavicans, vertice JlavOf uro- 



pygio caudaque rufis. 

 Dusky Flycatcher, undulated with rufous, with the under parts 



of the body yellowish, the crown yellow, and the rump and 



tail rufous. 



