406 ORANGE-HUMPED FLYCATCHER. 



This greatly resembles the Ash-coloured Fly- 

 catcher : it is in length eight inches and a half : 

 its beak is brown : the head and upper parts of 

 the body brownish : the wing-coverts and quills 

 black, edged with white : neck and breast rusty 

 grey ; the feathers greatly elongated, especially 

 beneath the ears, where they are raised into a 

 small tuft : belly rusty ochre : tail black at the 

 tip and inner sides ; the outer edges white : legs 

 black : claws yellowish. Inhabits the Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



^ ORANGE-RUMPED FLYCATCHER. 



(Muscicapa melanocephala.) 



Mu. capite colloque nigris, dor so Juho, corpore subtus albo ma- 

 cults nigris, alis caudaque Juscis, uropygio aurantio. 



Flycatcher with a black head and neck ; fulvous back ; body 

 beneath white, with black spots ; wings and tail brown ; and 

 rump orange. 



Muscicapa melanocephala. Lath. Ind, Orn, Sup. Hi. l6. 

 Orange-rumped Flycatcher. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 225. 27* 



This bird has a tail composed, something like 

 that of the Soft-tailed Flycatcher, of distinct hairy 

 filaments : its head and neck are black : the back 

 and rump are orange red : the wings and tail are 

 brown : the under parts of the body are white : 

 the beak and legs are dusky. Inhabits New South 

 Wales : carries its tail erect. 



