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White band on hind-neck . . . M. albicoUis <S ad., p. 293 



No white band on hind-neck . . J/, hypoleuca, S ^^-y P- -'^S 



Wing over 7o mm M. hypoleuca andM. 



albicoUis, $ and juv., pp. 290, 294 

 Wing not over 75 mm. . . 6 



C Base of tail brown like rest . . M. latirostris, ad. and 



6] juv.. p. 287 

 ( Base of tail white .... 7 



/ Throat rufous M. parva, S atl., p. 29.5 



n 



Throat whitisli or buff . . M. parva, ? and juv., p. 296 



MUSCICAPA STRIATA.* 



ii8. Muscicapa striata striata (Pall.)— THE SPOTTED 

 FLYCATCHER. 



MoTACiLLA STRIATA Pallas, Vroeg's Cat. Verzam. Vogelen, etc., Adum- 



bratiuncula, p. 3 (1764 — Holland). 



Muscicapa grisola Linnajus, Yarrell, i, p. 220 ; Saimders, p. 157. 



Description (Plate 10). — Adult male and female. Winter. — 

 Fore-head and croAvn bro^vll, feathers Avith blackish centres and pale 

 edges giving spotted appearance ; rest of npper-parts uniform dark 

 to greyish -brown, upper tail-coverts with somewhat inconspicuoiis 

 bnff tips ; lores and ear-coverts brown ; centre of chin and throat 

 Avhite with one or two brown streaks, sides of throat and breast 

 same but much streaked brown ; sides of breast and flanks brown 

 tinged cinnamon and with dark brown streaks ; centre of belly 

 and mider tail-coverts Avhite unstreaked ; axillaries and nnder 

 wing-coverts cinnamon-broAvn ; tail dark brown ; primaries dark 

 brown with greyish-Avhite margins to inner Avebs ; secondaries 

 same but also Avith narroAv buff edgings to outer Avebs ; primary- 

 coverts as primaries ; greater and median coverts dark broAvii with 

 buff tips and edgings ; lesser coA'erts broAAH Avith slightly paler tips. 

 This plumage is acquired by a moult of the body-feathers July- 

 Sept., but Avings, Aving-coverts and tail are not usually moulted 

 before migration, although occasionally some secondaries and 

 Aving-coA'erts and rarely central pair of tail-feathers are moulted. 

 Tlie pale edgings to old Aving-feathers and Aving-coverts are always 

 much AA^orn. Summer. — From Nov. -March a complete moult takes 

 place (in Avinter cpiarters), ncAv plumage being like old except that 

 pale edgings to secondaries and Aving-coAerts are broader {i.e., not 

 Avorn) and more conspicuous. As summer adA-ances upper-parts 

 become greyer broAAai by abrasion. 



* Since the I'ediscovery of the rare work quoted (only three copies appear 

 to be known, but a reprint has been made of the " Adumbratiuncula ") its 

 new names have been adopted, and under these circumstances striata of 1764 

 antedates grisola of 1766. — E.H. 



