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RUFOUS-liELLIED FLYCATCHER. 
present species, which seems confined to the western 
coast, is not among the number. The group seems 
to be altogether peculiar to the tropical latitudes of 
Africa and India : the males are distinguished by 
having the two middle feathers of their tail exces- 
sively long, and their heads are usually adorned 
with a short crest of scale-like feathers. It is to be 
regretted that the generic name of Museioapa was 
not retained to these birds, seeing that they are the 
types of the whole sub-family, and that another was 
not given to the European flycatchers, which form 
an aberrant genus. Such errors are the inevitable 
result of neglecting to analyze a group before it is 
broken up into new divisions. We shall not, how- 
ever, propose any further change, but continue to 
call these typical flycatchers by the name of Mu- 
scipeta. 
The species now under consideration differs from 
all those figured by Le Vaillant in having the black 
on the under plumage confined to the chin alone, 
while all the rest of the body, both above and below, 
is of a uniform rufous ; the black on the head covers 
the crest, ears, and chin, and the rufous extends to 
the wing-covers and the margins of the lesser quills. 
The four outer or greater quills are entirely black, 
which colour extends to the spurious quills and the 
outermost wing-covers ; these latter, however, have 
a faint whitish margin which unites to a white line 
that borders only one of the lesser quills, as if it 
divided the two sets. 
In 1829 there was a specimen of this species in 
