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vered; the neck of the male, however, in the nuptial season, be- 

 ing as black as the back, and wanting the little white spot on 

 the edge of the Aving. It is the 



M. luctuosa, Tem.; Naum. 64; Edw. 30, 1; The female, Enl. 

 668, 1. Which is found farther north than the preceding. 



A small reddish species has lately been discovered in Ger- 

 many. M. parva, Bechst.; Naum. 65, 3. 

 The beak of the Flycatchers becomes more and more slender, and 

 finally approaches that of several species of Regulus.(l) 



Some species in which the ridge is somewhat higher, and arched 

 towards the point, lead to the forms of the Saxicol2e.(2) 



Various genera or subgenera of birds are closely allied to certain 

 links in the series of Flycatchers, although they greatly exceed them 

 in size, viz. 



Gymnocephalus, Geoff. 



Or the Bald Tyrants. They have a beak similar to that of the 

 Tyrants, except that its ridge is somewhat more arcuated; a great 

 part of their face is destitute of feathers. 



followed him. It is very certainly the M. albicollis, and not the M. luduosa, that 

 is the Becca-Jico of Aldrovandus, Ornlth. II, 758 and 759. 



(1) We also refer to the true Flycatchei-s, the GilUt [Muse, bicolor), Enl. 675, 1. 

 Le Print, Vaill. 161; Enl. 567, 1 and 2 (3i. senegalensis, Gm.). M. albicapilla, 

 Vieill. Am. 37. M. armiUata, lb. 4, 2. M. diops, Tem., 144, 1. M. eximia, lb. 

 2. M. ventralis, Id. Col. 275, 2.3f. virescens, lb. 3. M. obsoleta, lb. 1. M.Jlabel- 

 lifera, lb., Gmel. Lath. Syn. II, parti, pi. A9.M. scrita, VaiU. Afr. 154. 3/. 

 ruticilla, Gm. Enl. 556: Vieill. Am. 35 and 36 ; Wils. I, vi, 6. Platyr. paganus, 

 Spix. PI. marinus. Id. 2. Pipraeluta, Id. VIII, 2. ^e App. XIV. of Am. Edit. 



(2) Such are the Oranor, Vaill. IV, 155, and several neighbouring- species, simi- 

 lar to the Muse, ruticilla, so far as_regai"ds the distribution of colours, but differ- 

 ing' in the beak, such as Musc.miniatu, Tem. or Tardus speciosus. Lath. Col. 156. 

 M. Jlammea, Forst. Zool. Ind. 25 and Tem. Col. 263, or Parus raalabaricus. Lath. 

 M. hyacinthina. Col. 30. ThQ.Azuroux [M.azurea), Vaill. Afr. 158, 2. M. niger- 

 rima, Vieill. Diet. Spix, 18, 1. M. gulsafa, Spix, 17, a different species. 31. stel- 

 lata, Vieill., Vaill. 157, 2. M. longipes, or the Miro-Miro of New Zealand, Less. 

 and Garn. Voy. deDuper. Zool. pi. 19, 1. M. chrysomelas, lb. pi. 18. M. nivea, 

 Spix, 29, 1. M. ieterophis, Vieill., Diet. M. mirundinacea, Tem. Col. 119. The 

 Muse, multicolor, Gm. Lath. Syn. 2, is so intermediate between the Flycatchers and 

 the Mot. phoeniciirus, that we hesitate to assig-n its position. 



The species of this type which have the strongest beaks appear to constitute 

 the DaiMOPHiLEs of M. Temminck. 



N.B. The Mus flabellifera has become the genus Ripidura of Vig. and Horsf 

 and the M. ruticilla, the Setophaga of Swainson. The M. sternUru, T. Col. 167, 

 3, is the Stebnuba of Swains. : and the species whose head is enlarged by feathers, 

 such as the M. australis. White, p. 239, his genus, Pachycephala. The neigh- 

 bouring genus, Seisuea, is formed from the Turdus volitans. Lath. 



