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DESERT FLYCATCHER. 



The Swallow-tailed Flycatcher is thus noticed 

 by Dr. Latham. Bigger than a Lark in the 

 body: length ten inches, of which the tail is five : 

 the beak is straight, eight lines long, compressed, 

 and weak ; the colour of it black : irides red : the 

 head and back are light grey, with a little tinge 

 of red: the under parts of the body white ; 

 beneath the wing red ; and when closed a little of 

 this colour appears just above the bend of it : the 

 lesser wdng-coverts are ash-colour, with pale edges, 

 giving the appearance of scales ; the greater wing- 

 coverts marked in the same manner, but blackish: 

 the quills black, edged with grey : the tail is greatly 

 forked; the outer feathers are five inches long, and 

 the middle ones but two; these are all black, 

 edged with rufous grey, but the outer ones have 

 the exterior webs white for half their length : the 

 legs are black. Inhabits Mexico." It varies in 

 the length of its tail. 



DESERT FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa Deserti.) 



Mu. corpore ex ferrugmeo nigricante-fuliginoso, alis caudaque 



nigricantibus, rostrojlavicante. 

 Bycatcher with the body of a ferruginous sooty black, with the 



wings and tail dusky, and beak yellowish. 

 Muscicapa Deserti. GmeL Syst. NaU 1 . 944.-L«^/^. Ind. Orn. 



2. 478. 44. 



Muscicapa fuliginosa. Mus, Carls, fas. 2, pi. ^7- 

 Desert Flycatcher. Lath. Syn. Sup. IL 217- 7- 



