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7 he Green Black-cap Fly-catcher. 
r -jpHIS Bird is figur’d of its natural Bignefs; for fhape of Body it is like a Robin 
Red-breaft ; the Bill is flender, of a middling Length, bowed downward a very 
little towards the Point, which is fharp, of a dufky or horn-colour above, the lower 
Mandible lighter, both a little Yellow next the Head; the Crown, Sides, and hinder 
Parts of the Head, are cover’d as it were with a Cap of Black Feathers, having a 
Point or Corner under each Eye; the Eyes are placed on each Side the Plead in the 
middle of the black Part; the Throat, quite to the Bill, and the whole remaining 
Part of the Bird, is of an equal blue-green Colour; the Quills are fomething dark¬ 
er than the other Parts, efpecially the greater or outer Quills, which lofe their 
Greennefs by Degrees, and become blackifh at their Tips; the Legs and Feet which 
conform to the ulual Shape, in frnall Birds, are of a dark Lead-colour, 
The Blue-Headed Green Fly-Catciier, 
L| ''HIS Bird in Figure and Magnitude, is equal to the above defcrib’d, or if 
-*■ there be any Difference on comparing the Birds themfelves, I thought this 
rather the lead;; the Shape of the Bill is the fame with the above; it is of a light 
Afh-colour or White, in the upper Part lighted; at .the Bafe; the lower Mandible is 
of a darker Afh-colour; the Top and Sides of the Head are of a light Blue-colour; 
the Throat, juft under the Bill, is White, for a frnall Space; the Neck, whole 
Body, and Tail, are of a very yeliowifh Green; the Wing on the Shoulder, or Part 
next the Head, hath a roundifh Spot of Blue; the Covert Feathers and Quills, ex¬ 
cept the Greater, are Yellow-green, like the Body; the greater Quills are of a dark 
Brown, or Black Colour ; the under Side of the Tail is dufky; the Legs and Feet 
of a faint yellow Colour, 
Thefe two Birds are preferved in the Cabinet of his Grace the Duke of Richmond; 
they are Natives.of Surinam. They being fo like in Shape and Colour, I am in¬ 
clin’d to believe them Male and Female of the fame Species ; but it is hard to de¬ 
termine any thing abfolutely, unlefs one had been in the Country, where they are 
Natives, and made particular Obfervations of them. Thefe Birds may be ranged 
with flender-bill’d Small Birds, whofe Tails are all of one Colour. I believe thefe 
Birds have not before been figur’d or defcrib’d. 
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