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COROMANDEL FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa Ponticeriana.) 



Mu. cinereo-grisea subtus alba, tectricibus alarum albo maculatis, 

 rectricibus lateralibus griseo alboque dimidiatis, super ciliis albis. 



Cinereous-grey Flycatcher, beneath white, with the wing-co- 

 verts spotted with white ; the lateral tail-feathers half grey 

 and half white; supercilia white. 



Muscicapa Ponticeriana. GmeL Si/st. Nat, 1. QSg.^Lath, Ind. 

 Orn. 2. 471.14. 



Le Gobe-mouche de Pondichery. Sonner, Voy. Ind. 2. l98, 



Coromandel Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Syn, 3. 331. 11. 



This species is said to have a fine song : it is 

 larger than the Domestic Finch : its beak and 

 legs are black : the head is ash-coloured : the eye- 

 brows are white : the hinder part of the neck, the 

 back, wings, and tail, are ash-coloured grey: the 

 wing-coverts have a white triangular spot at their 

 tips : the fore-part of the neck, breast, and belly, 

 white : tail-feathers, the two middle ones excepted, 

 grey half way from the base, with their tips white. 

 Inhabits the Coromandel coast. 



