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blue paler and white beneath. The young males have 

 only the orange colour under the throat. 



Like the rest of the genus the sexes fly in pairs : 

 the nest is constructed on the Mimosas ; and the eggs 

 are five or six in number, of an olive-green colour, 

 dotted with rufous, forming a circle round the larger 

 end. t ; . . 



Sp. 3. Mu. Senegalensis. Steph. v. x. p. 333. — Le privit. Le 



VailL pi. 161 — Senegal. 

 Sp. 4. Mu. bicolor. Steph. v, x. 323. — South America. 

 Sp. 5. Mu. fusca. Steph. v. x. p. 384. — North America. 

 Sp. 6. Mu. obscura. 



Todus obscurus. Shatv, v. vii. p. 129. — North America. 

 Sp. 7. Mu. Indigo. 



Mu. obscure ccerulea remigibus rectricibiisqne nigris ; his basi 



axillis ventre crissoque albidis. 

 Dull-bluish Flycatcher with the quills and tail-feathers black j 



the base of the latter^ the axillssj belly, and vent whitish. 

 Muscicapa Indigo. Linn. Trans. (Horsf.) xiii. 146. Horsf. 



ZooL Research. 



Inhabits Java. Length nearly four inches : the 

 general colour dull cserulean-blue, with the quills 

 and tail black : the base of the latter, the axillary 

 feathers, the belly, and the vent whitish : the tail- 

 feathers, the exterior ones excepted, are externally 

 margined with caerulean : the two middle feathers 

 are plain black at the base. 



This species lives solitarily on the most elevated 

 mountain peaks of Java. 



Sp. 8. Mu. hirundinacea. Reintv. Temm. PL Col. 119. 

 Mu, viridi'chalybeo ?iigra, subtus uropygioque albis. 



