RUFOUS-VENTED FLYCATCHER. 



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its nest is made excessively neat, and of the shape 

 of an inverted cone : it is composed of bits of 

 sticks, dry stalks, weeds, paper, and such like, 

 woven together with skill, and lined with dry 

 grass : this bird lays five pure white eggs, with 

 black spots at the large end : it has two broods in 

 the year. 



RUFOUS-VENTED FLYCATCHER, 



(Muscicapa rufiventris.) 



Mu. ni'grOf ahdomine crisso macula alarum basiqtie caiida JulvO" 

 riifis. 



Black Flycatcher, with the abdomen, vent, spot on the wings, 



and base of the tail, yellowish red. 

 Muscicapa rufiventris. Lath. hid. Orn, 2. 473 . 2 1 . — Gmel. Si/st. 



NaLl.g4l. . 

 Le Gobe-mouche de Pisle de Bourbon. Buf. PL Enl. 572. J] 1. 

 Rufous-vented Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 334. 17. 



This, which is said to inhabit the Isle of 

 Bourbon, is not quite five inches in length : it is 

 entirely black, with the exception of the vent, 

 spot on the wing, and under tail-coverts, which 

 are rufous : legs pale red. 



v. X. p. II. 



