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prey on the wing. They are rather 

 solitary in habit, usually frequenting 

 trees of open woodlands and gardens. 



This large family consists of nearly 

 one hundred genera, and over seven 

 hundred species, of which twenty-one 

 are found in China, and eleven reach 

 the Yangtse Valley. 



RED-THEOATED FLYCATCHER. 



SIPHIA ALBICILLA (PALLAS). 

 [Muscicapa albicilla (pal.)] 



Description. — Length four and three 

 quarters inches. Bill dark brown. 

 Tarsus black. Iris brown. 



Male. Fulvous brown above, sides 

 of the face gray, with a white circle 

 around the eyes. Chin and throat 

 bright chestnut. Breast and abdomen 

 whitish gray. Upper tail coverts black. 

 Wings brown, feathers edged fulvous. 

 Two middle pairs of tail feathers black, 

 others more or less white at base- 



Female has the throat white, and 

 the under parts somewhat suffused 

 with buflf. 



Young are mottled yellowish and 

 brown above, and yellowish below. 



Distribution. — India and China, 

 migrant in the Yangtse Valley. In 

 Europe the place of this bird is taken 

 by the Red-breasted Flycatcher (Siphia 

 parva). 



The Red-throated Flycatcher is 

 common all over China in the migrating 

 season. It is sociable in its habits, 

 and is often seen in gardens, where it 

 takes its food of insects on the ground 

 rather than on the wing as is the 

 habit of most of the Flycatchers. 



