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INDIAN FLYCATCHER. 



(Muscicapa Tectec.) 



Mv.Jicsca pennis rufescente-marginatis, suhtus rufescens, collo in- 



Jeriore sordide albo. 

 Brown Flycatcher, with the feathers edged by reddish, beneath 



rufescent ; the under part of the neck dull white. 

 Muscicapa Tectec. GmeL Syst, Nat, 1. 941. — Lath. Ind* Orn. 



2. 473. 30. 



Muscicapa borbonica. Briss. Orn. 2, 360. 2. Sg./, I. 

 Indian Flycatcher. Lath, Gen, Syn, 3. 334. l6. 



Size of Muscicapa Grisola : length four inches 

 and a half: beak brown; legs the same: head, 

 hind part of the neck, and upper parts of the body, 

 brown, varied with a few spots of rufous : quills 

 brown, tipped with rufous : throat and fore-part 

 of the neck dirty white : lower part of the body 

 pale rufous : tail brown, edged with rufous : female 

 dirty white, where the male is rufous. Inhabits 

 the Isle of Bourbon. 



