HUFOTJS-BELLIED FLYCATCHER. 
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the Paris museum, upon which we detected that a 
false, zail had been engrafted ; this presinned tail 
was black and even, and so dissimilar in its general 
structure to those possessed by this group, that we 
had strong doubts, even at that time, that it was 
genuine. 
Total length, with the tail, 8f inches ; bill, from 
the front, 55 ; ditto, from the gape, f ; wings, 
3 T % ; tail beyond, 4^ ; ditto, from the base, 6 ; 
tarsus, \ ; middle tail-feather longer than the 
others. 
BLACK-BELLIED FLYCATCHER. 
Muscipeta melanogasta , Swains. 
Crest, head, neck, and breast, black, glossed with chalybeate- 
blue ; body beneath, in the young bird, grey-black *, back, 
tail, and under covers, rufous *, wings, black and rufous, the 
colours divided by a white stripe. 
In size and general proportions, this very elegant 
species resembles the last we have described. It 
seems, however, to be less uncommon, and it is 
readily distinguished by the under parts of the body 
being of a glossy black. On a cursory view we sup- 
posed it to be the species described by Le Vaillant 
under the name of Le Gobe moiiehe Tchitrec ; but 
upon referring to his figures, and still more by com- 
