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WHITE-COLLARED FLYCATCHER. 



Muscicapa albicollis, TEMMINCK. 

 PLATE XXVI. 



Above, black ; front, collar round the neck, and a large 

 patch upon the wings, white ; quills brown, their base 

 white ; rump greyish-white ; tail-covers entirely black. 



Muscicapa albicollis, Tern. Man. i. 153, PL Enl. 565, f. 2 

 Pied Flycatcher, var. b. Lath. Sy. iii. 325. 



THE annexed figure accurately represents an indi- 

 vidual of this species we shot in the island of Si- 

 cily, so far back as the year 1 807 ; it is almost the 

 only specimen remaining of a large collection of the 

 birds of that island, formed in the subsequent five 

 years, which has escaped destruction from moths. 



The ground colour of the upper plumage is 

 black, but varied with white in the following 

 manner : The front of the head, the collar round 

 the nape, and a large spot on the wings, are all 

 pure white ; this latter spot is longitudinal, and 

 spreads over the tertials and a portion of the larger 

 wing-covers ; there is a band of white at the base 

 of the secondaries, and a much narrower one on 



