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the vernacular name in NewSouth Wales of the Brown Flycatcher, Microeca fascinans,a common little bird about Sydney. The name has been ascribedto the fact that it is a resident species, very common, andthat it sings all through the winter, when nearly every otherspecies is silent. See Flycatcher.

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