slender filaments, like hair, of a black colour. The female is like the male in every respect, excepting that it has no azure bar over the eye, and that it is entirely of a ferruginous colour from the base of the under-mandible to the vent.
The natives of New South Wales give the name of Merion Binnion to this bird, on account of the great resemblance of its tail to the feathers of the Cassowary.
Since the above account was written, Dr. Shaw has examined the bird therein described, and has named and characterized it as follows:
MUSCICAPA malachura.
Soft-tailed Flycatcher.
M. fusca, subtus ferruginea; gula (maris?) cœrulea; cauda longa cuneata, rectricibus decompositis.
Brown Flycatcher, ferruginous beneath; the throat (of the male?) blue; the tail long and cuneated, with loose-webbed feathers.
Tab. XXI. represents the Muscicapa malachura, male and female.
XXII. Obser-
