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MUTABLE FLYCATCHER. 

 (Muscicapa rautata.) 



Mu. capite cristato nigro-mrescente, cauda cuneata rectricibus in» 



termediis longissimis, palpebris cceruleis. 

 Flycatcher with a blackish-green crested head, a wedge-shaped 



tail, with its two middle feathers longest, and blue eyelids. 

 Muscicapa mutata. Lin, Syst. Nat, i, 347. 2. — Gmel. Syst, 



Nat, 1. 930. — Lath. Lid. Orn, 2. 481. 55. 

 Muscicapa madagascariensis varia longicauda, Briss, Orn, 2. 



430. 36. p/. AO./. 1. 

 Gobe-mouche a longue queue et ventre blanc. Buff, Hist. Nat, 



Ois. 4. dQQ.-^Buff, PL Enl. 248. f. 2. 

 Gobe-mouche a longue queue de Madagascar. Buf. PI. Enl. 



248./. 1. var. 

 Schet-all. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 4. 568. mr. 

 Schet vouloulou. Btff. Hist. Nat, Ois. 4. 569. var. 

 Mutable Flycatcher. Lath. Gen, Syn, 3. 347. 45. 



At first sight this greatly resembles the pre- 

 ceding, but it is not much more than half the size, 

 measuring only a foot in length, of which the tail 

 is upwards of seven inches : its beak is blackish : 

 its irides are yellow, and eyelids blue : the head, 

 neck, and back, are greenish black ; the latter is 

 varied with white : the wings black; with a white 

 fascia : the breast and under parts of the body 

 white : the two middle tail-feathers very long and 

 white, with their shafts and a spot at their tips 

 black ; the rest of them white on their inner, and 

 black on their outer webs : it varies in having the 

 body and tail of a clear cinnamon colour, and in 



