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CERULEAN, OR LONG-TAILED FLYCATCHER. 
Myiagra longicauda , Swains. 
PLATE XXV. 
Entirely caerulean blue, paler beneath; tail lengthened and 
considerably graduated ; rietal bristles as long as the bill. 
There are so many Flycatchers, generally so called, 
whose plumage is entirely blue, although of dif- 
ferent tints and shades, that it is quite impossible to 
determine this species from among those in our sys- 
tems at present in use. It was formerly in Bullock’s 
Museum, and stated to come from New Holland, a 
locality not at all improbable ; for although we have 
never yet seen any species of Muscipeta from Aus- 
tralia, it affords several species of the present sub- 
genus. 
The general structure, as already observed, ac- 
cords more with that of the typical Myiagra than 
with any other of the neighbouring groups ; for the 
tail, although long, is graduated, and not fan- 
shaped, as in ffliipidura, while the prolongation 
of the middle feathers, although but slight, induces 
the belief that this bird is an annectant species be- 
