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Sp. 25. Mu? stellai-is. 



Mu? olivaceo'viridis infra Jiava; capite ccesio; macula alba ante 

 oculos; gula fascia alba; pectore lateribusque oUvaceo nebu- 

 losis. 



Olive-green Flycatcher? beneath yellow; with the head blue- 

 grey 3 a white spot before the eyes ; a white band on the throat ; 

 the breast and sides clouded with olive. 



Le Gobe-mouche Etoile. Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afriq. iwpl. 157.' 

 2. — Starry Flycatcher. Lath, Gen. Hist, v'l. 200. 



Inhabits Southern Africa. Size of M. atrica- 

 pilla ; but with longer legs : head black : irides red- 

 brown : head blue-grey : before the eyes a spot of 

 white : across the throat, beneath the grey, a white 

 band : general colour of the body above olive-green, 

 inclining to yellow : beneath the body jonquil yel- 

 low, clouded with pale olive on the breast and sides : 

 quills slate-coloured, with pale borders : tail as the 

 back, and even at the end : legs black brown. The 

 female has the head and all the upper parts olive- 

 green, paler than the male : throat and cheeks paler : 

 the body beneath pale yellow, with an olive tinge on 

 the belly, and beneath the tail ; but she is destitute 

 of the blue-grey band and the white across the throat. 



According to La Vaillant this species builds in 

 the forks of trees, constructing its nest of dry grass, 

 covered with lichen and dry fibres within : the eggs 

 are four in number, dotted with rufous j and are 

 hatched in sixteen days. 



Sp. 26. Mu} speciosa. 



Turdus speciosus. Steph.v.x. p. 273. — India*. 



* The eight last-mentioned species approach, by the form of 

 their beak and length of legs, to the genus Saxicola ; the 1 9th 



