Viscount Walden on the Muscicapa melanictera. 321 
the “ Ceylon Blackcap 33 of his ( Illustrations ;’ and, apart 
from the extreme improbability of Brown having described and 
figured the same bird twice over in the same volume, or that 
Governor Laten, a good naturalist, should have regarded 
specimens of the same species as belonging to two different 
species, the figures and descriptions do not agree with one 
another. The figure of the “ Ceylon Blackcap 33 represents 
that bird with yellow cheeks, while that of the “ Yellow-breasted 
Flycatcher 33 represents them as black. In the first bird the 
two characteristic white alar bars of lora zeylanica are dis¬ 
tinctly shown, in the other the wing is uniform in colour. 
Lastly, the white terminal caudal markings represented in the 
figure of the u Yellow-breasted Flycatcher ” distinguishes it at 
once from I. zeylanica. It must be borne in mind that it is 
universally admitted that Brownes “ Ceylon Blackcap 33 is an 
lora. If we compare the two descriptions, we find internal 
evidence which makes it impossible to believe that they are 
taken from the same species. Brownes description of the “ Yel¬ 
low-breasted Flycatcher 33 agrees in all respects with my Ceylon 
specimens, and they equally resemble Le VaillanCs account of 
the Cap Negre. With perfect confidence, therefore, I propose 
to restore Muscicapa melanictera , Gm., to a place in our cata¬ 
logue of real and distinct species, and to expunge VieilloCs title 
of atricapilla. 
In this view the synonymy of this species will be as follows 
Eubigula melanictera (Gm.). 
Yellow-breasted Flycatcher, Brown, Illust. 80, pi. xxxii. fig. 1, 
1776; Lath. Gen. Syn. iii. 336. no. 21, 1783; Gen. Hist. 187. 
no. 50, 1823. 
Muscicapa melanictera, Gmel. S. N. i. 941. no. 55, 1788; 
Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 475. no. 28, 1790. 
Le Cap negre , Le Vaill. Ois. d^Afr. iii. 172, pi. 140. fig. 1, 
1802. 
JEgithina atricapilla , Vieill. N. Diet. i. 176, 1816. 
Le Gobe-mouche Malkola-Kourla, Vieill. xxi. 473, 1818. 
Black-capped Tanager, Lath. Gen. Hist. vi. 38. no. 49,1823. 
Gobe-mouche noir etjaune de Ceilan , St. Croix, Diet. Sc. Nat. 
xxxiii. 85, 1824. 
Brachypus gularis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1835, p. 186. 
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