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WHITE-BELLIED FLYCATCHER. 
Muscipeta leucogaster , Swains. 
PLATE XXIY. 
Body beneath pure white ; back, wings, and tail, rufous ; 
throat and nock light grey; crown blue-black, furnished 
with a crest of lengthened, narrow, pointed feathers. 
For an acquaintance of this, and several other inte- 
resting birds from India, our best acknowledge- 
ments are due to the Countess of Dalhousie, who, 
during her residence in India, paid much attention 
to the native birds, and has obligingly communi- 
cated to us many valuable notes upon their man- 
ners. From a memorandum attached to the only 
specimen in the collection, it appears to he a female ; 
yet its superior size to any other of this group we 
have yet seen, together with the pure white of the 
under plumages, stamps it at once as a distinct and 
an unrecorded species. As our knowledge of these 
long-tailed Flycatchers increases, the more does it 
appear how much ornithologists have been mis- 
taken in regarding them as varieties of our species. 
The size of this bird is considerably above any of 
