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ASH-COLOURED FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa cana.) 



Mu. cinerettf capite saturatiore, rectricibus nigriSf duabus ex- 



timis apice cinerascentihis, remigibus intus albis. 

 Ash-coloured Flycatcher, beneath darker, with the tail-feathers 



black ; the two outer ones tipped with ash-colour, and the 



quills white on their inner webs. 

 Muscicapa cana. GmeL Si/st,Kat. 1. 94O. — Lath, Ind, Orn, 2. 



472. 16. 



Muscicapa madagascariensis cinerea major. Briss. Orn, 2. 389» 



17. pi. 37' 1. 

 Le Kinki-manou. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 584. 

 Grand Gobe-mouche cendre Madagascar. Buff. PI. Enl. 541. 

 Ash-coloured Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Syn. 3. 332. 13. 



This species inhabits Madagascar: it is eight 

 inches and a half in length : its beak and legs are 

 black : the head, throat, and nape, dusky cinere- 

 ous ; the rest of the neck and the upper part of 

 the plumage clear ash : the quills dusky, with grey 

 edges: lower parts of the body pale ash: vent 

 white : tail black ; the two middle feathers ash- 

 colour, with dusky tips, and the outer one on each 

 side pale ash-colour at their tips. 



