RUFOUS FLYCATCHER. 



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dusky, the lower grey : the head, hind part, and 

 sides of the neck, deep cinereous : the shafts of 

 the feathers on the crown dusky: back rufous 

 brown ; wings the same, edged with pale rufous : 

 throat and fore-part of the neck ash-colour, edged 

 with whitish : breast, upper tail-coverts, and rump, 

 bright rufous : belly and vent pale rufous : tail 

 similar to the rump: legs brown: varies in having 

 the belly yellowish white. 



RUFOUS FLYCATCHER. 



(Muscicapa rufescens.) 



Mu. rtifescente nitens subtiis rufo-alba, remigibus nigris, vertice 

 macula rufa. 



Shining reddish Flycatcher, beneath reddish white, with the 



quills black, the crown with a rufous spot. 

 Muscicapa rufescens. Gmel, Syst, Nat, 1. 932. — Lath, Ind, 



Orn. 2. 48;. 82. 



Le Gobe-mouche roux de Cayenne. Biiff'. Hist, Nat, Ois, 4, 



549.— Bw/: PL Enl. 453./ 1. 

 Rufous Flycatcher. Lath, Gen, Syn, 3. 362. 73. 



Inhabits Cayenne: length five inches and a 

 half: beak stout and dusky: the crown of the 

 head with a rufous brown spot : the upper parts 

 of the plumage of a pale rufous : the quills black: 

 the under parts of the body entirely white, with a 

 slight tinge of rufous : legs dusky. 



