MUSCICAPIDiE. 



127 



B. Cauda maxime furcatd. 



B, With the tail greatly forked, 



Sp. 28. Mu ? psalura. 



Mu? recirice exteriore utrinque pogonio verticali; corpore mrio; 



Jascia pedorali nigra in marem, rufa in fosminam. 

 Flycatcher ? with a vertical web to the outer tail-feathers on each 



side; the body varied; the male with a black and the female 



with a rufous band on the breast. 

 Le Guira Yetapa. D'Azara, iii. No. 226. — Paraguan Flycatcher. 



Lath. Gen. Hist. vi. 254. — Muscicapa psalura. Temm. PI. 



Col. 286. male ; 296. female. 



Inhabits Brazil. Distinguished from the rest of 

 the Flycatchers by the singular construction of its tail 

 and wings : the former is composed of twelve fea- 

 thers, of which the outer one on either side takes its 

 origin, beneath the others : these two feathers are 

 above eight inches long in the male, and four in the 

 female ; they are webless at their base, and, in the 

 former sex, they become furnished with long webs on 

 their upper side, while the under remains smooth : 

 in the female both sides of the shaft are adorned with 

 webs towards the tip, and form a kind of racket. The 

 wings are remarkable from having the first quill de- 

 tached and falling down from the following ; it is 

 short, curved, broad at its base, and then gradually 

 narrower to its point, which is furnished with a trun- 

 cated web. 



The adult male has the top of the head, the fea- 

 thers on the ears, the nape, the top of the back, the 

 sides of the neck, and a band on the breast, deep 

 black J but during the period of moulting the fea- 

 thers of these parts are edged with reddish : the 

 throat, the belly, and the vent, white : the rest of 



