160 ■ MUSCICAPID^. 



9. Muscicapa coUaris. 



The Collared Flycatcher. 



Muscicapa atricapilla, Jacquin. Bcytr. p. 41, tab. 18 {nee L.). 



Muscicapa collaris, Bechst. Nature/. Dcutschl. iv. p. 495 ; id. Orn 



Taschenh. p. 158 ; Nordm. in Demid. Voy. Buss. Merid. iii. p. 198 



Kjcerh. Orn. Dan. Taf. 15 ; Cab. Mus. Ilein. i. p. 52 ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 317; Sundev. Sv. For/l. pi. 18. fig. 4; Jaub. et Barth. Lap 



Rich. Orn. p. 194; Schl. Vog. van Nederl. pi. 11. fig. 4; Degl. et 



Gerbe, Orn. Eur. i. p. 381 ; Locke, JE.ipl. Sci. Alger. Ois. ii. p. 58 ; 



Grag, Hand-l. B. i. p. 322, no. 4822 ; Doderl. Avif. Sicil. p. 141 ; 



Salvad. Ucc. Ital. p. 55; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i.p. 438; Goidd, 



B. Gt. Br. ii. pi. 18; Shelley', B. Egypt, p. 120; Dresser, B. Eur. 



pt. 34 ; Blanf. East Persia, p. 143. 

 Muscicapa albicollis, Temin. Man. d!Orn. p. 100 ; Naum. Vog, 



Deutschl. ii. p. 224, Taf. 65. figs. 1, 2 ; Werner, Atlas, Insectivores, 



pj.8; Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 224; Gould, B. Eur. ii. pi. 63. 



figs. 2, 3 ; Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. 196 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. 



p. 262; Schl. ti. Susem. Vog. Eur. Taf. 13; Schl. Vog. Nederl. 



pi. 117 ; Frifsch, Vog. Eur. tab. 21. fig. 10, tab. 24. fig. 3 ; Linderm. 



Vog. Griechenl. p. 116. 

 Muscicapa streptophora, Vieill. Faune Franq. p. 145 ; Roux, Orn. 



Pi-oi: pi. 151. 

 Muscicapa albifrons, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 223. 

 HedTUiela collaris, Sundev. (Ejfv. K. Vet.-Ahad. Fork. Sfockh. 1846, 



p.' 225. 

 Muscicapa melanoptera, " Hechel,"' J. F. Namnann, Vog. Deutschl. 



xiii. p. 245, Taf. 351 ; Salvad. Ucc. Ital. p. 312. 

 Muscicapa coUaris albifrons, A. E. Brehm, Verz. Samml. C. L. 



Brekm, p. 3. 

 INIuscicapa collaris microrhj-ucha, id. t. c. p. 3. 

 Muscicapa collaris atrostriata, id. t. c. p. 3. 



Adult male. General colour above black, the lower back and rump 

 ashy grey, somewhat mottled with white bases to the feathers ; 

 wings black, with conspicuous white bases to all of them ; the inner- 

 most secondaries white along their outer webs, so as to form a bar 

 down the wing, the three innermost quills being white with a black 

 tip, the black increasing as they near the back ; upper tail-coverts 

 black, with obsolete grey tips ; tail-feathers black, with the external 

 feathers white along the outer web ; round the hind neck a white 

 collar ; on the forehead a white patch ; a narrow frontal line, lores, 

 and sides of face black ; cheeks and entire under surface of body 

 white ; thighs black ; under wing-coverts white, Avith dusky blackish 

 bases ; quills blackish, with a distinct patch of white at the base. 

 Total length 5-2 inches, culmen 0-45, wing 3-25, tail 2-1, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult female. Different from the male. General colour above 

 ashy brown, greyer on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wing- 

 coverts dark brown, externally shaded with ashy, the greater series 

 broadly tipped with white ; primary-coverts dark brown ; quills 

 dark brown, the primaries white at the base, forming a speculum ; 

 the innermost secondaries white at base and along the outer web, 

 forming a bar down the wing ; upper tail-coverts blackish, with 

 ashy margins ; tail-feathers black, edged with ashy brown, the 



